Born on the day when the snowflakes are flying, and died on the day when the snowflakes are falling.
Empress Dowager Chengde, Hua clan Xu Li, entered the palace in the third year of Chongyuan, when she was fourteen years old. She moved to Jieyu in the fourth year and was named Ying. In the seventh year of her pregnancy, she was promoted to Xiurong and gave birth to Emperor Wen Qi Xi. Later, she followed the emperor Beikang and became pregnant again and gave birth to Princess Guren, who was the concubine Chen.
Emperor Wen was suffering from many illnesses, and the Queen Mother was in power since the 14th year of Shengwei. The Queen Mother was fifty-four years old, but she was smart and vigorous in her administration. During her more than ten years of administration, she defeated the Xiongnu and exterminated the southern barbarians. She promoted water conservancy and aided agriculture. She organized government affairs and started a clean and honest government. She reduced taxes and miscellaneous businesses for the people, which was praised by people at the time.
In the tenth year of Tianqian's reign, the Queen Mother died in Xishelin at the age of seventy-eight. Emperor Wei was so sad that the whole country mourned him. He was given the fifteen-character posthumous title "Cheng Min, Rong, Kuang, An, Yuan, Zheng, Wen, Yi, He, Hua, Jing, Zhuang, Xiaode", which was the most famous in the Wei Kingdom for a century, and he was buried in Kunling.