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This article says "as a Chinese official in the Northern Zhou dynasty"...however, Wendi was from a noble family of mixed descent, and his wife was Xiongnu (see J.M Roberts, "A Concise History of the World", pg 223; J.A.G. Roberts, "A Concise History of China", pg 47; Fairbank, "China--A New History", pg 77).

This article says that Wendi created the "Da Ming Lu", but that was the name of the great Ming dynasty code promulgated almost a thousand years later. Wendi's code was called the Kai Huang Lu (See Head & Wang, "Law Codes in Dynastic China", pg. 114).

I'm not precisely sure of the etiquette here, but I will make these changes to the main article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.239.50 (talk • contribs)

Being of mixed descent (Han and non-Han) does not make him non-Chinese -- in the grander scheme of things, since these ancient peoples have merged into "Chinese." Further, Empress Dugu was in all likelihood Xianbei, not Xiongnu. --Nlu (talk) 07:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What a mess! The opening paragraphs are about Emperor Wen of Han--but only someone familiar with Chinese history would be able to discover this. Then we start to read finally about Emperor Wen of Sui. They lived about 700 years apart!--98.114.178.61 (talk) 04:15, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Xing-Ming

I was confused between whether Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Wen of Sui promoted Xing-Ming, but apparently both did. I haven't gone into the literature to see if there if there is more discussion of this, but given Wen's reputation as a Legalist, I would consider it important to connect him with Legalism at least in passing.FourLights (talk) 02:51, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that Sui Wendi had the fewest number of concubines. Rather, that title should go to Guangwu of Han. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.41.213.86 (talk) 04:13, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anachronisms

The 3rd paragraph in the section "Early Kaihuang era" mentions Khaqan Ishbara/Ashina Helu, who was only active 60 years later. Which Khaqan is meant here? From later sections, it seems Ishbara/Ashina Shetu could have been meant here, but there are no citations, so I am reluctant to edit this without any source confirming it. H2RHS (talk) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]