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- Consort Niu, imperial consort rank Zhaorong (牛昭容, personal name unknown) was an imperial consort of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty. She was a concubine to Emperor Shunzong (Li Song). Nothing is known about Consort Niu's background, as there is no biography of her in the collections of empresses' and imperial consorts' biographies of the Old Book of Tang or the New Book of Tang. It is not known when she became Li Song's concubine, but it appeared to be during the time that he was serving as crown prince under his father Emperor Dezong. In 805, after Emperor Dezong's death, Li Song became emperor (as Emperor Shunzong). Li Song had, in late 804, suffered a debilitating stroke that rendered him partially paralyzed and unable to speak. It was said that, as a result, after he became emperor, he rarely met the officials and was often in the palace behind a screen, attended to by Consort Niu and the eunuch Li Zhongyan (李忠言). By this point, Consort Niu was carrying the title of Zhaorong, the sixth highest rank for imperial consorts. It was said that Consort Niu and Li Zhongyan formed a group of decision-makers, along with Emperor Shunzong's trusted officials Wang Shuwen and Wang Pi and the chancellor Wei Zhiyi, and they effectively made the decisions on Emperor Shunzong's behalf. They feared Emperor Shunzong's oldest son Li Chun the Prince of Guangling, purportedly because of Li Chun's decisiveness, and initially resisted the suggestions by a number of officials that Li Chun be created crown prince. By written proposal of the imperial scholar Zheng Yin, however, Li Chun was created crown prince anyway. Late in 805, by which time Wang Shuwen and Wang Pi had lost power, Emperor Shunzong yielded the throne to Li Chun (as Emperor Xianzong) and took the title of Taishang Huang (retired emperor). He died in 806. Nothing further was recorded in history about Consort Niu, and it is not known whether she suffered any reprisals or when she died. (en)
- 牛昭容，中国唐朝时期皇族女性，为唐顺宗的昭容。 805年，唐德宗驾崩，其子唐顺宗李诵即位。唐顺宗封牛氏为昭容。因为唐顺宗中風、瘫痪，不能说话。宦官李忠言和牛昭容與顺宗亲近，顺宗通过他们向外传达旨意。翰林学士王伾与李忠言、牛昭容关系好，主管往来传旨，王叔文主决断，宰相韦执谊为作詔書；进行永贞革新。 永貞革新損及了宦官俱文珍、劉光琦等的利益。俱文珍聯合劍南節度使韋皋、荊南節度使裴均、河東節度使嚴綬等外藩，迫使唐順宗內禪予皇長子李純，是為唐憲宗，即永贞内禅，顺宗为太上皇，不久暴斃。順宗駕崩後，史书没有了牛昭容的记载。 唐顺宗曾册立一位牛承徽为修仪，牛昭容、是否是同一人，已无法考证。 (zh)
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