Dates uncertain · Empress Dowager of Zhongshan

Empress Dowager Feng 馮太后

Feng Taihou

Dates uncertain

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Feng as a consort. This record brings together 3 passages 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 Feng	馮太后	Feng Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager Feng	馮太后	Feng Taihou
Title	Lady Feng	馮氏	Feng Shi
Title	Zhongshan Empress Dowager Feng	中山馮太后	Zhongshan Feng Taihou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0249
Value: female
Strongly inferred · hanshu:088:s0197

Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Death

Text: ordered to kill herself
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0197

Places and affiliations

中山
Explicit · hanshu:088:s0249

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 3 passages

初，傅太后與中山孝王母馮太后俱事元帝，有隙，傅太后使有司考馮太后，令自殺，眾庶冤之。 Fu's faction had forced Lady Feng of Zhongshan to suicide; opinion called it a frame.

馮氏反事明白，故欲□觖以揚我惡。 She said the Feng case was closed and Sun Bao only meant to smear her.

哀帝崩，莽秉政，使大司徒孔光奏隆前為冀州牧治中山馮太后獄冤陷無辜，不宜處位在中土。 When Emperor Ai died and Wang Mang took control of the government, he had Grand Minister over the Masses Kong Guang memorialize that, as former Shepherd of Ji Province, Long had mishandled the case of Empress Dowager Feng of Zhongshan and entrapped innocent people, and therefore should not serve in the central government.