A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ên Shu-pao
246 Ch'ên Shu-pao 陳叔寶 (T. 元秀). A.D. 553-604. Eldest son of Ch'ên Hsü, whom he succeeded in 582, and fifth and last sovereign of the Ch'ên dynasty. He gave himself up to a life of debauchery, employing unworthy minions to oppress the people, until the Sui armies took his capital without any opposition in 589. When the victorious invaders burst into the palace, the wretched poltroon caused himself and his favourite concubines, Chang Li-hua and others, to be lowered into a well, from which they were ignominiously dragged up by the conquerors. His life was spared, and he was sent as Duke of Ch'ang-ch'êng, his family home, to Ch'ang-an. Known in history as 後主.