Empress Dowager (皇太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 4 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	皇太后
Title	Empress Dowager	皇太后

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:050:s0062

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 禮志凶儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1031 · End: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:050:s0002, liaoshi:050:s0062

Career and standing

Status: mourning · Label: mourning dress / 喪服 · Action: wore
Explicit · liaoshi:050:s0084

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: affiliated-with
Explicit · liaoshi:050:s0062

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: host · Action: received-consolation-envoys
Explicit · liaoshi:050:s0070, liaoshi:050:s0084, liaoshi:050:s0087

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:050:s0062

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 50Volume 50 Treatises 20: Rites 2 · 4 passages

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若皇太后奠酒，依常儀。 If the Empress Dowager presented wine, the usual procedure was followed.

太后於北間南面垂簾坐，皇帝於南間北面坐，使至幕次。 The Empress Dowager sat behind a curtain on the south side of the north chamber; the emperor sat on the north side of the south chamber facing north; the envoys arrived at the side tents.

皇太后別殿坐，服喪服。 The Empress Dowager sat in a separate hall dressed in mourning.

使副入見，如見皇太后儀，加謝遠接撫問、湯藥，再拜。 The envoys entered for an audience following the same procedure as for the Empress Dowager, with additional thanks for the escort on their journey, expressions of comfort, and provisions of medicine, bowing twice.