Consort Han (Yongle)
{{Expand Chinese|韩丽妃 |date=August 2020|topic=bio}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Consort Kanghuizhuangshuli
{{nobold|{{lang|zh|康惠莊淑麗妃}}}}
| title = Consort Li (麗妃)
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1398
| birth_place = Kingdom of Joseon
| death_date = 12 August 1424
Yongle 22, 18th day of the 7th month
(永樂二十二年七月十八日) (aged 26)
| death_place = Beijing
| burial_place = Changling Mausoleum
| spouse = Yongle Emperor
| full name =
| posthumous name = Kanghuizhuangshu
(康惠莊淑)
| house = Cheongju Han
| house-type = Clan
| father = Han Yeong-jeong
| mother = Lady Kim of the Uiseong Kim clan
}}
Consort Kanghuizhuangshuli (康惠莊淑麗妃; 1398 – 1424), of the Korean Cheongju Han clan, was a consort of the Yongle Emperor.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry, Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle, University of Washington Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0-295-98124-5}}
Biography
Joseon sent a total of 114 women as tribute to the Ming dynasty, consisting of 16 virgin girls including Lady Han who was chosen as an imperial concubine of the Yongle Emperor because of her outstanding beauty.규장각한국학연구원 (2011)[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijo9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT143 . 조선 사람의 세계여행 (규장각 교양총서05)] (in Korean). 글항아리.
In 1421, she was implicated in the alleged plot which resulted in the mass execution in the emperor's harem, where many of the emperor's concubines, their maids and eunuchs were executed, accused of having participated in a murder plot against the emperor.
She managed to avoid being executed but was imprisoned. When the emperor died in 1424, she belonged to the 30 people executed in order to join the emperor by being buried with him.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
After the Hongxi Emperor ascended, Consort Li knelt down and begged the new emperor to let her return to Joseon to support her elderly mother but the Hongxi Emperor didn't allow her and ordered to have Consort Li hanged and buried with the late emperor.《李朝实录·世宗庄宪大王实录一》 Consort Li was posthumously granted the title of Consort Kanghuizhuangshuli.{{Cite web|title=Veritable Records of Sejong: Vol 68|url=http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/wda_11704026_005|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228135110/http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/wda_11704026_005 |archive-date=2021-12-28 |access-date=28 December 2021|website=Sillok.history|language=Korean}}
Family
Consort Li was born in the Cheongju Han clan, one of the most proeminent Korean clans who produced 6 Queens during the Joseon Dynasty.
- Father: Han Yeong-jeong (한영정, 韓永矴)
- Mother: Lady Kim of the Uiseong Kim clan (정경부인 의성 김씨) (? - 13 March 1423)
- Three younger brothers:
- First younger brother: Han Hwak (한확, 韓確; 1400 – 1456) served as Left State Councillor and Right State Councillor during the Joseon dynasty.
- Niece: Han Do-san (한도산; 韓桃山), Queen Insu of Joseon (소혜왕후 한씨; 7 October 1437 – 11 May 1504), mother of King Seongjong
- Niece: Han Yu-san (한유산,韓柚山), Princess Consort Jeongseon; daughter-in-law of Sejong the Great
- Younger sister: Han Gye-ran (한계란, 韓桂蘭) (1410 - 1483), Consort Gongshen; consort of the Xuande Emperor{{Cite web|title=공신부인 한씨|url=https://ko.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%B5%EC%8B%A0%EB%B6%80%EC%9D%B8|access-date=28 December 2021|website=위키백과|language=Korean}}{{Circular reference|date=September 2023}}
Titles
- During the reign of the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398):
- Lady Han, of the Cheongju Han clan (清州韓氏)
- During the reign of the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402– 1424):
- Consort Li (麗妃)
- Consort Kanghuizhuangshuli (康惠莊淑麗妃){{Cite web|title=Veritable Records of Sejong: Vol 68|url=http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/wda_11704026_005|url-status=live|access-date=28 December 2021|website=Sillok.history|language=Korean|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228135110/http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/wda_11704026_005 |archive-date=2021-12-28 }}