Qin and Han · Empress Dowager

Empress Dowager Dou 竇太后

Dòu Tàihòu

Died BC 135

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Dou was an empress Dowager.

Life and dates

Death

BC 135 及竇太后崩
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 121, passage 38

Attested activity

BC 135 及竇太后崩
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 121, passage 38

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 121, passage 38

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 121Biographies of Confucian Scholars · 1 passage

及竇太后崩，武安侯田蚡為丞相，絀黃老、刑名百家之言，延文學儒者數百人，而公孫弘以春秋白衣為天子三公，封以平津侯。 After Empress Dowager Dou died, the Marquis of Wu'an, Tian Fen, became Chancellor. He dismissed the doctrines of Huang-Lao, Legalism, and the Hundred Schools, and recruited several hundred literary and Confucian scholars. Gongsun Hong, through his mastery of the Spring and Autumn Annals, rose from commoner to one of the Three Excellencies under the Son of Heaven, and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Pingjin.