There is no "one woman marries five emperors" in Xiao Huanghou. He once wrote to Fu to gently persuade the emperor.

Compared with the controversy, Xiao is not well-known in history. In later stories and novels, Hou Yaozong was implicated by Yang Di and described as a "female curse" without talent, virtue and indecency. In real history, Hou Yaozong is a traditional woman with gentle temperament and high cultural accomplishment. She is neither a femme fatale nor a woman in power.

Hou Yaozong was the daughter of Xiao Kui in the Southern Dynasties. Because she was born in February, Jiangnan customs regarded her as an ominous thing, so she was fostered by her uncle and lived a poor life. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty wanted to choose a concubine for Yang Guang from the nobles of Liang Dynasty. After divination, she was the only one who boded well among many women, so she was awarded the title of princess. Sui Shu and History of the North say that Hou Yaozong is gentle, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate and knows divination. Before he ascended the throne, Yang Guang courted his mother, Queen Dugu, alienated women, and was inseparable from Hou Yaozong. After he acceded to the throne, he had a good relationship with Hou Yaozong and always took Hou Yaozong with him when he traveled.

As the queen of Yang Guang, Hou Yaozong has a strong sense of hardship, and once gently persuaded Emperor Yangdi to write a poem about Zhifu. There are many words in this article: "If you face a deep situation, your heart will tremble." The aphorism is "when the husband is in danger, the worry is full and the overflow is prevented." When Yang Dixing visited Jiangdu, the peasant uprising was surging, and the imperial army plotted to rebel. However, Yang Di turned a deaf ear and executed those who reported the rebellion. In the future, if someone wants to report it, Hou Yaozong will stop it and the world will be hopeless. Talking too much will only worry the emperor. From then on, the couple sat in a silent city until Yang-ti was killed by Yu Wenhuaji. After Xiao buried Yang-ti with a bed board painted by a maid-in-waiting, he was held hostage and went back all the way. Yu Wenhuaji was killed by Dou Jiande and Hou Yaozong became a prisoner. At this point, after my sister married the Turkish princess Yicheng, she sent someone to meet Xiao and stayed in Saibei for 1 1 year. It was not until the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan that Tang Jun defeated the Turks and Xiao returned to Chang 'an. Seventeen years later, after his death, Emperor Taizong sent her body to Yangzhou to be buried with Emperor Yang, and called posthumous title "heart", meaning pity and mourning.

Xiao spent the rest of her life wandering around, which became the material for unofficial history's novels to vilify her "one woman marries five emperors", but these were not based on historical facts, especially when she returned to Chang 'an, she was over 60 years old and was the aunt of Emperor Taizong, and there was almost no possibility of an affair between them.

20 13, Yang Di and Hou Yaozong were buried in Yangzhou. Yang Di has only two teeth left, while Hou Yaozong's skeleton still exists. According to the appraisal, Hou Yaozong is about 1.5 meters tall, and rockhopper, chime, pottery figurines and porcelain have also been unearthed in the tomb.