{"id":1294,"date":"2009-05-07T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T06:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:21","slug":"the-ladys-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/05\/the-ladys-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lady's Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

In teaching the Tang dynasty one thing I like to talk about is the Princess of Pingyang<\/a>, d. 623 who assisted her father the Tang founder Gaozu in setting up the empire by recruiting an army of 70, 00o bandits (the Lady’s Army \u5a18\u5b50\u8ecd) who assisted in the overthrow of the Sui and the establishment of\u00a0 the new dynasty. One reason to talk about this is that an imperial princess leading an army of 70,000 bandits is a cool story<\/a>. Unfortunately we don’t know much about her other than that. The Tang Shu<\/a> (scroll down) biography is quite short, but it does bring up the other event that makes her good to talk about in class. By the Song the old system of aristocratic family-based politics was replaced by a new, more bureaucratic and exclusively male political world. In the early Tang we are still back in the period of disunion in that women were still political actors in their own right. When the princess died some officials pointed out that as a woman she should not have drums at her funeral. \u4ee5\u793c\uff0c\u5987\u4ee5\u793c\uff0c\u5987\u4eba\u65e0\u9f13\u5439. Implicitly they are saying that drums are male music. The emperor disagreed saying that drums were martial music\u00a0\u9ad8\u7956\u66f0\uff1a\u201c\u9f13\u5439\uff0c\u519b\u4e50\u4e5f1<\/a><\/sup> Given that she had herself used drums to command troops in battle it was quite appropriate to have drums at her funeral. The categories of male and female, general and bandit would be a lot less permiable later in the dynasty<\/p>\n

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  1. i.e. not necessarily male or female, just associated with the military ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In teaching the Tang dynasty one thing I like to talk about is the Princess of Pingyang, d. 623 who assisted her father the Tang founder Gaozu in setting up the empire by recruiting an army of 70, 00o bandits (the Lady’s Army \u5a18\u5b50\u8ecd) who assisted in the overthrow of the Sui and the establishment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,125,162,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-gender","category-tang","category-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-kS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}