Princess Linhe

{{Infobox royalty |name= Yujiulü Chidelian (郁久閭叱地連) |birth_date= 537 |death_date= |birth_place= Rouran Khaganate (present day Mongolia) |death_place= Jinyang (Present day Taiyuan, Shanxi) |burial_date= May – June 550 |burial_place= Tomb of Princess Linhe, Ye, Eastern Wei (Present day Ci County, Hebei) |spouse= Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi |regnal name= Princess Linhe (鄰和公主) <small>({{lit.|Princess of Neighboring Peace}})</small> |father= Anluochen }} Yujiulu Chidilian (郁久閭叱地連) (537 – 550), formally Princess Linhe (鄰和公主) (lit. Princess of Neighboring Peace), was an Eastern Wei princess of Rouran descent. Despite her young age, she is credited with playing a pivotal role in Northern China's mid-sixth-century politics. Her lavish tomb was unearthed in Cixian County, Hebei, China, in 1979. Even though the tomb was pillaged, it still contained a treasure of gold and jeweled ornaments, a thousand clay figurines and vessels, Byzantine coins, murals with mythical creatures, attendants and officials credited as marking a "decisive visual change" in the art, and an epitaph mentioning the close-by mausoleum of Gao Huan, as well as her marriage relationship to a member of the royal Gao family. The tomb is one of the few excavated large-scale tombs from the mid-sixth century in China. Early life She was a Rouran, born in the northern steppe, in the Rouran Khaganate. She was born into the royal family of the Rourans, the Yujiulü, and was a grand-daughter of the famous Anagui. Her father was Anluochen (郁久閭菴羅辰), who reigned as khan of the Rourans from 519 until 552. He was married to Princess Le'an (乐安公主), daughter of Gao Cheng, in 541, and is the last known khan of the Rourans. Her family dominated the northern steppe in the first half of the 6th century. Marriage She was brought to China in 542 by Gao Huan as a "diplomatic bride" for his son. Many instances of Heqin, the historical practice of Chinese emperors marrying princesses—usually members of minor branches of the ruling family—to rulers of neighboring states and vice versa, have been documented, with notably the cases of Princess Lelang (乐浪公主), who was married to Princess Linhe's fellow countryman Yujiulü Hulü in 411, and Yujiulü Zhaoyi (郁久闾昭仪), who was married to Feng Ba, Emperor of Northern Yan.