After several failed attempts to overthrow the empress dowager, Xiaoming secretly ordered General Erzhu Rong to send troops to the capital Luoyang to coerce her into handing over the authority. Emperor Xiaoming gathered the people to oppose her and executed her lover Yuan Yi (元怿) in 520, causing deep hatred from his mother. Both her lifestyle and her ruling style elicited widespread dissatisfaction among officials and from her son. The ancient Chinese historians who wrote the official history of the Northern Wei portrayed her as promiscuous. She successfully eliminated many of her opponents, including favourites of the emperor. When Emperor Xiaoming grew up, however, his mother refused to hand authority over to him. Officials addressed her as Bixia ( Chinese: 陛下 pinyin: Bìxià), an honorific used when addressing the emperor directly. To exert her power as the highest ruler of Northern Wei, she addressed herself as Zhen ( Chinese: 朕 pinyin: Zhèn), a first-person pronoun reserved for use by the emperor after the Qin dynasty. Because Emperor Xiaoming was still young, she became his regent. Following Xuanwu's death, Yuan Xu ascended the throne as Emperor Xiaoming, and Hu was honoured as Consort Dowager, and soon Empress Dowager. 499–515) consorts she gave birth to his only living heir Yuan Xu (510–528). 528), known posthumously as Empress Dowager Ling, was originally one of Emperor Xuanwu's (483–515, r. No further information about her or her mother is available. Xiaoming's daughter was not recognised as an emperor ( huangdi) by later generations. On 1 April 528, Empress Dowager Hu installed the infant on the throne for a matter of hours before replacing her with Yuan Zhao the next day. Soon after her birth, her grandmother the Empress Dowager Hu, who was also Xiaoming's regent, falsely declared that she was a boy and ordered a general pardon. 515–528), born to his concubine Consort Pan.

Yuan was the only child of Emperor Xiaoming (r. She bore the surname Yuan ( Chinese: 元 pinyin: Yuán), originally Tuoba. The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (12 February 528 – after 1 April 528), whose given name is unknown, was briefly the emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. Wutai (武泰): 1st month – 4th month, 528 ( Chinese calendar)įebruary – June, 528 ( Gregorian calendar)

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