瑁 Mào

Mao, Prince of Shou: his mother, Consort Hui, had conceived many times but none of her children had lived, so when Mao was born the Prince of Ning asked to raise him in his own residence. The prince's principal consort, Lady Yuan, nursed him herself and called him her own son; that is why he was enfeoffed later than all the other princes. In the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan he was made, in absentia, Grand Area Commander-in-chief of Yi Prefecture. At first, because the Prince of Yong and the others were still young, the emperor ordered that they need not come to audiences. When Mao was seven, he asked to give thanks along with his elder brothers, and he bowed and danced with proper form; the emperor thought him remarkable. When the Prince of Ning died, Mao asked to wear mourning for him to repay a personal debt of kindness, and an edict allowed it. He died in the tenth year of Dali and was posthumously made Grand Mentor. Three of his sons were princes: Ai was Prince of Deyang Commandery, Pi Prince of Jiyang Commandery, and Zhan Prince of Guangyang Commandery; Kang was Duke of Xue, and Jie was Chancellor of the Directorate of Education. Edit