Fu Yanqing

Fu Yanqing (符彥卿) (898-July 31, 975), né Li Yanqing (李彥卿), courtesy name Guanhou (冠侯), formally the Prince of Wei (魏王), nicknamed Fu Disi (符第四, "the fourth Fu"), was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou states, as well as the Liao dynasty and Song dynasty. He was one of the most celebrated generals of the period, and he was also the father of three daughters who received empress titles — two as successive empresses of the Later Zhou emperor Guo Rong (Empress Fu the Elder and Empress Dowager Fu (Later Zhou)), and one (posthumously) as a wife of Zhao Guangyi, who would become the second emperor of Song.

Fu Yanqing / Li Yanqing
Personal details
Born898
likely modern Shanxi
DiedJuly 31, 975
modern Luoyang, Henan
Children
OccupationMilitary general, monarch, politician
FatherLi Cunshen (Fu Cun)
Full nameSurname: Lǐ () after father's adoptive father, later reverted to father's original surname Fú ()
Given name: Yànqīng ()
Courtesy name: Guànhóu ()
Nickname"The Fourth Fu" (第四)
Fu Yanqing
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
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