Emperor Yang of Sui China (560-618), or Yang-ti was the son and heir of Emperor Wen of Sui, and then the second emperor of China's Sui Dynasty. Events Ceawlin of Wessex becomes King of Wessex (traditional date). ... Events End of the Sui Dynasty and beginning of the Tang Dynasty in China. ... Emperor Wen of Sui China (541-604), also Yang Jian, Yang Chien, and Sui Wen-ti (posthumous name), was the founder and first emperor of Chinas Sui Dynasty. ... The Sui Dynasty (隋朝 Hanyu Pinyin: Suí, 581-618) followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. ...

Yang-ti, ruling from 604 to 617, committed to several large projects during his rule, most notably the completion of the Grand Canal. He also caused the reconstruction of the Great Wall, a project which took the lives of nearly six million workers. These expeditures, along with a series of disastrous campaigns against Korea, left the empire bankrupt and the people in revolt. An uprising forced Yang-ti to flee to South China, where he was eventually assassinated. Events Saint Laurence becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. ... Events Sui Gong Di succeeds Sui Yang Di as emperor of China. ... The Grand Canal of China (known as Jinghang Canal or Jinghang Grand Canal, 京杭大運河, or 大運河; 京杭大运河, or 大运河; pinyin: jīng háng dà yùn hé or dà yùn hé), is the largest ancient artificial river in the world. ... The Great Wall of China (Traditional Chinese: 長城; Simplified Chinese: 长城; pinyin: ), also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000 Li¹ (Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: ), is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 16th... A series of campaigns launched by the Sui Dynasty of China against the Goguryeo dynasty of Korea between 598 and 614, it resulted in the defeat of Sui and its eventual fall in 618. ... Korea (한국) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the west and Russia to the north. ... North China (北方 Hanyu pinyin: Běifāng) and South China (南方 Hanyu pinyin: Nánfāng) are two approximate regions within China. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ...

Yang-ti committed almost eight million people to constructing roads, palaces, the Grand Canal, the Great Wall and ships. The re-designing of Luoyang alone consumed a quarter of that amount, and the building of the Grand Canal took up 2 million men. Luoyang(洛阳) (Simplified Chinese: 洛阳; Traditional Chinese: 洛陽; pinyin: ) is a city in Henan province, China. ...

Equally manpower-consuming were the 3 expeditions against Korea, each one using about a million men. Due to tactical errors, though, the huge army was unable to conquer Korea. A million people died in the 3 campaigns.

Even with many books describing his achievements, Yang-ti is still considered a tyrant in China, and the reason for the Sui Dynasty's relatively short rule.

Legend claims Yang send a series of messengers to Hua Mulan with the message to come to him as his concubine. She refused and committed suicide, afterwards. The Emperor then held a funeral with honors for her. Oil painting on silk, Hua Mulan Goes to War Hua Mulan (Traditional Chinese: 花木蘭; Simplified Chinese: 花木兰; pinyin: ) is the heroine who joined an all-male army described in a famous Chinese non-fictional poem written during the period of the Northern Dynasties (420-589) and first collected in Yuefu... Concubinage is either the state of a couple living together as lovers with no obligation created by vows, legal marriage, or religious ceremony, or the state of a woman supported by a male lover who is married to, and usually living with, someone else. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ... Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ...

Emperor Wen of Sui China (541-604), also Yang Jian, Yang Chien, and Sui Wen-ti (posthumous name), was the founder and first emperor of Chinas Sui Dynasty. ... The Sui Dynasty (隋朝 Hanyu Pinyin: Suí, 581-618) followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. ... Events Saint Laurence becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. ... Events Sui Gong Di succeeds Sui Yang Di as emperor of China. ... Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty (617-618), or Gongdi was the last emperor of Chinas Sui dynasty. ...