Chen Yongfei (Emperor Ming Shizong)

Chen Yongfei, whose birth and death years are unknown, was born around the 16th century and died in 1586. She was a consort of Ming Emperor Shizong Zhu Hòu Gōng. Her father was Chen Zan, who held the official position of Commanding Officer of the Jinyiwei with a salary. Her daughters included the seventh prince Zhu Zài Hào (also known as the King of Ji Ai) and the fourth princess Gui Shan Gongzhu Zhu Ruìxìng.

In the fourteenth year of Jiajing (1535), before Princess Gui Shan ascended the throne, Chen Zan was selected to enter the Yeding and was granted the title of Zheng Qianhu. In the sixteenth year of Jiajing (1538), Chen was bestowed the title of Empress Dowager Yong. In the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538), her son Zhu Zài Hào died young. In the nineteenth year of Jiajing (1540), January, Chen Yongfei was further promoted to Yongfei, and on the same day, her father was promoted to the rank of Commanding Officer of the Censorate. In the twentieth year of Jiajing (1541), she gave birth to her fourth daughter Zhu Ruìxìng, who later died young; she was posthumously honored as Princess Gui Shan.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1544), her father Chen Zan was granted funeral sacrifices, with a burial fee of 450 taels of silver. After the death of Emperor Jiajing in the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (1560), Chen Yongfei entered a life of widowhood. Records during the Tianqi and Longqing years are absent. On the ninth day of the first month of the forty-sixth year of Wanli (February 26, 1586), Chen Yongfei passed away, and her funeral was held following the example set by Lady Zhao, Concubine Wenjing Yi.