 She later became a concubine of Northern Wei and Eastern Wei's paramount general Gao Huan.Erzhu Ying'e's father Erzhu Rong had been a hereditary chief of the Qihu (契胡) tribe, a branch of the Xiongnu, located at Xiurong (秀容, in modern Shuozhou, Shanxi), and during the agrarian rebellions during Emperor Xiaoming's reign had become increasingly powerful as a military general.Sometime during Emperor Xiaoming's reign, she became Emperor Xiaoming's concubine with the rank of "Pin" (嬪).