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Overview The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Hu as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 11 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Empress Dowager Hu
胡太后
Hú tàihòu
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Empress Dowager Hu
胡太后
Hú tàihòu
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Empress Hu
胡后
Hú hòu
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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50 Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 11 passages
又先得幸於胡太后，是以彌見親密。
He had already won Empress Dowager Hu's favor, and their intimacy only deepened.
屬太后觴朝貴於前殿，叡面陳士開罪失，云：「士開先帝弄臣，城狐社鼠，受納貨賄，穢亂宮掖，臣等義無杜口，冒死以陳。」
As the empress dowager feasted the nobles in the front hall, Rui openly accused Shikai: "Shikai was the late emperor's favorite, a rat in the city wall—taking bribes and polluting the inner palace. We cannot in conscience stay silent and risk death to speak."
太后曰：「先帝在時，王等何不道？
The empress dowager said, "When the late emperor lived, why did you not say this?
明日，叡等共詣雲龍門，令文遙入奏之，太后不聽。
The next day they went to the Cloud Dragon Gate and had Wen Yao submit a memorial; the empress dowager refused to hear it.
段韶呼胡長粲傳言，太后曰：「梓宮在殯，事大拚速，欲王等更思量。」
Duan Shao sent Hu Changcan with a message: the empress dowager said, "The late emperor's coffin is still in mourning—this is no time for rash action. I ask you to think again."
太后及後主召見問士開，士開曰：「先帝群官之中，待臣最重，陛下諒暗始爾，大臣皆有覬覦心，若出臣，正是剪陛下羽翼。
The empress dowager and Later Lord questioned Shikai. He said, "Of all the late emperor's officials, none was favored as I was. Your Majesty has only just entered mourning, and the great ministers already eye power hungrily. Remove me, and you clip Your Majesty's own wings.
後主及太后然之，告叡等如士開旨，以士開為兗州刺史。
The Later Lord and empress dowager agreed, told Rui and the rest as Shikai advised, and made Shikai Inspector of Yan Province.
士開由是得見太后及後主，進說曰：「先帝一旦登遐，臣愧不能自死。
Thus Shikai saw the empress dowager and Later Lord and pleaded, "When the late emperor died, I was ashamed that I did not die with him.
帝及太后皆泣，問計將安出。
Emperor and empress dowager wept and asked what he would do.
世祖時，恒令士開與太后握槊，又出入臥內無復期限，遂與太后為亂。
Under Shizu, Shikai often played polo with the empress dowager and entered the inner quarters without restraint, eventually taking her as a lover.
提婆母陸令萱賞配入掖庭，後主繈褓之中，令其鞠養，謂之乾阿妳，遂大為胡后所昵愛。
Tipo's mother Lu Lingxuan, sent to the inner palace as punishment, nursed the infant Later Lord and was called his dry nurse; Empress Hu doted on her.