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Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou
emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Zhou
Years: 559 - 580
Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou (559–580), personal name Yuwen Yun, courtesy name Qianbo , is an emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Zhou.
He is known to history as an erratic and wasteful ruler, whose actions greatly weakened the Northern Zhou regime.
As part of that erratic behavior, he passed the throne to his son Emperor Jing in 579, less than a year after taking the throne, and subsequently entitles not only his wife Empress Yang Lihua empress, but four additional concubines as empresses.
After his death in 580, the government is taken over by his father-in-law Yang Jian, who soon deposei his son Emperor Jing, ending Northern Zhou and establishing the Sui Dynasty.
