What kind of person was Yang Lihua in history?

Yang Lihua was born in Huayin, Hongnong (now huayin city, Shaanxi), the eldest daughter of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, Emperor Xuandi of Northern Zhou Dynasty and Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty.

In the second year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, she married Prince Yu Wenyun. After Emperor Xuandi ascended the throne in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he worshipped Queen Tianyuan. After the Northern Zhou Emperor Jing ascended the throne, he became the Empress Dowager Tianyuan and opposed the usurpation of the throne by the Prime Minister Sui Wendi. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, she was named Princess Leping, and her daughter was married to the pillar of the country. In the fifth year of Daye (609), he followed Yang Di to visit Zhangye and died in Hexi at the age of 49.

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On September 19th, the second year of Jiande (573), Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty married Yang Lihua as the crown princess and Yu Yunna as the crown prince. In June of the first year of Zheng Xuan (578), Yuwen Yong died, and Yu Wenyun became emperor, calling himself the Northern Zhou Dynasty. On the third day of leap June, Yu Wenyun canonized Yang Lihua as the queen.

On February 20th, the first year of the elephant (579), Yu Wenzhong passed the throne to Prince Yu Wenchan, calling himself Emperor Tianyuan and making Yang Lihua the Queen of Tianyuan. On the first day of April, Yuwen came to establish Yuwen Chan's biological mother Zhu Manyue as the Queen of Tianyuan. On July 23rd, the day after the Yuan Empress Zhu Manyue ascended the throne, the concubine Leyuan was appointed as the Tian You Empress, and Chen Yueyi was the Tian Zuo Empress, becoming the Four Empresses together with Yang Lihua.

In February of the second year of the elephant (580), Yu Wenyun ordered that the word "big" should be added to all queens' titles. Yang Lihua is the great queen of Tianyuan, Zhu Manyue is the great queen, Le Yuan is the great queen of God bless, and Chen Yueyi is the great queen of Tianzuo. In March, he named his concubine Wei Chi Fan Chi (niece of Wei Chi Jiong) as the queen of Tiandong University, standing side by side with Yang Lihua and others.

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