Family Background and Early Life
Deng Sui was born in 81. Her father Deng Xun (鄧訓) was a son of Emperor Guangwu's prime minister Deng Yu. Her mother, Lady Yin, was a daughter of a cousin of Emperor Guangwu's wife Empress Yin Lihua. She had a noted interest in studying, being able to read historical texts at age six and being able to recite the shujing and lunyu when she was twelve.
She was selected to be in the palace in 95. She became a consort to Emperor He in 96, when she was 15, and he was 17.
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