Empress Dowager (皇太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a consort and ruler. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager	皇太后	Huángtàihòu
Title	Empress Dowager	皇太后	Huángtàihòu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:005:s0047

Roles

Consort
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 延興元年十月辛亥 · Lunar Month: 10 · Sexagenary Day: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:005:s0047

Places and affiliations

Polity: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:005:s0047

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author · Quoted: true
Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0047, nanqishu:005:s0048, nanqishu:005:s0049, nanqishu:005:s0050, nanqishu:005:s0051, nanqishu:005:s0052, nanqishu:005:s0053, nanqishu:005:s0054, nanqishu:005:s0055, nanqishu:005:s0056, nanqishu:005:s0057

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: announced-retirement
Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0055
Kind: political · Role: issuer · Action: ordered-demotion · Other Person Id: Xiao Zhaowen (蕭昭文)
Explicit · nanqishu:005:s0055

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Prince of Hailing · 1 passage

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辛亥，皇太后令曰：「司空、後將軍、丹陽尹、右僕射、中領軍、八座：夫明晦迭來，屯平代有，上靈所以眷命，億兆所以歸懷。 Day xinhai: the empress dowager ordered: "To the minister of works, the rear general, the administrator of Danyang, the right vice director, the central army-inspector-in-chief, and the eight seats: light and shadow take turns; hardship and peace succeed one another in their seasons—thus the high spirits bestow the mandate and the myriad folk set their hearts.