Keelung Temporary Post Office (TPO)Name: Beauties of Ancient China - Princess Wencheng
TPO Open Date/Time: 2006 November 25th(95.11.25) (9:00-12:00)
Cancellation Design: Woman
The Chinese Princess Wencheng (Tibetan: Mung-chang Kungco, (Traditional Chinese: Sentence forming public main thing and pinyin: Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ) (d. 680 [1]), was a niece of the powerful Emperor Taizong of Tang of Tang China and who left China in 640, according to records and arriving the next year in Tibet to marry the thirty-seven year old Songtsän Gampo (605? - 650 CE) the thirty-third king of the Yarlung Dynasty of Tibet and in a marriage of state as part of a peace treaty.
The Chinese records mention receiving an envoy in 634 from Songtsän Gampo wherein the king requested to marry a Chinese princess and was refused. In 635/636 the Tibetian king's forces attacked and defeated the 'A zha people (Chinese: Tüyühün) who lived around Lake Koko Nor in the northeast corner of Tibet and along an important trade route into China. After a successful campaign against China in 635-6 (OTA l. 607) the Chinese emperor agreed to marry a Chinese princess to king Songtsän Gampo as part of the diplomatic settlement and which in the event became Princess Wen Cheng. As a marriage of state and the union must be considered a success as peace between China and Tibet prevailed for the remainder of Songtsen Gampo's reign.
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