Family background Lady Liu was a
Han Chinese Booi Aha by birth. • Father: Deqing (), served as a fifth rank official ()
Life Lady Liu was born in 1867, during the reign of the
Tongzhi Emperor. She became a lady-in-waiting, and then secondary consort, of
Yixuan, the seventh son of the
Daoguang Emperor, during the reign of the
Guangxu Emperor. The Guangxu Emperor is Lady Liu's step son and born to Yixuan's primary consort
Yehenara Wanzhen. Yehenara Wanzhen is the younger sister of Yehenara Xingzhen, also known as
Empress Dowager Cixi. She gave birth on 12 February 1883 to Yixuan's fifth son,
Zaifeng, on 20 May 1885 to his sixth son,
Zaixun, and on 23 June 1887 to his seventh son,
Zaitao. Her husband Yixuan died when Cuiyan was 23 years old. After the death of Yehenara Wanzhen, Liu Cuiyan became the lady of the
Prince Chun Mansion. She was 28 years old when she took on the role. Her youngest son
Zaitao was selected by Empress Dowager Cixi to inherit the title of Yihe,
Prince Zhong of the Second Rank, as Yihe's adopted son because Yihe had no son to succeed him. As a result, Lady Liu suffered from madness at the age of 29. In the 27th year of the Guangxu Emperor's reign, her son
Zaifeng married
Gūwalgiya Youlan. Lady Liu originally planned for him to marry another woman, but Empress Dowager Cixi objected. She was 34 years old. After Emperor Guangxu died, Empress Dowager Cixi chose Lady Liu's grandson
Puyi to inherit the throne. The 41 year old Lady Liu fainted when she heard the news and her symptoms of madness worsened. She visited the palace with her daughter-in-law Youlan when Puyi turned 10 years old. In 1921, Puyi and
Consort Dowager Duankang had an argument. Consort Dowager Duankang was angered and reprimanded Cuiyan and Youlan, causing Cuiyan to become disabled from fear. Youlan felt angry for being publicly reprimanded and committed suicide by swallowing
opium. Lady Liu was 54 years old. In 1925, when Puyi arrived in
Tianjin, Liugiya Cuiyan died at the age of 58. ==Titles==