According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms (十國春秋), her family was from the Qi-Lu region (i.e., modern Shandong), but the same source also noted a possible alternative origin—that she was a cousin of Shi Jingsi, a general under Jin's prince Li Keyong.
[3] He carried the title of Prince of Hongnong, which had been bestowed by the Tang imperial emissary Li Yan.
[1] However, Yang Wo lost most of his effective power in a coup headed by his officers Zhang Hao and Xu Wen in 907.
He was angry about the situation, and Zhang and Xu thus feared that he would seize power again and carry out retribution against them.
When Xu went to the palace to report to Lady Dowager Shi what had occurred, she tearfully responded:[3] My son was still very young, but suffered this kind of disaster.