Dates uncertain · Consort

Queen Mother Wang 王太后

Wang Taihou

Dates uncertain

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Queen Mother Wang as a consort. This record brings together 6 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Queen Mother Wang	王太后	Wang Taihou
Title	empress dowager	太后	tàihòu
Title	Empress Dowager Wang	王太后	Wáng tàihòu
Title	Queen Mother Wang	王太后	Wang Taihou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · hanshu:102:s0101
Value: female
Strongly inferred · hanshu:088:s0214

Roles

Consort

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 1 passage

哀帝崩，王莽白王太后徵寶以為光祿大夫，與王舜等俱迎中山王。 Wang Mang recalled him to greet the boy emperor.

Book of Han, Chapter 102Volume 90: Cruel Officials · 5 passages

陛下縱自輕，奈宗廟太后何？」 Even if you discount your own safety, what of the altars of state and the empress dowager?"

縱有姊，以醫幸王太后。 Yi Zong's sister was a physician who caught the eye of Empress Dowager Wang.

太后問：「有子、兄弟為官者乎？」 The empress dowager asked: "Do you have sons or brothers serving as officials?"

太后乃告上，上拜義姁弟縱為中郎，補上黨郡中令。 The dowager then informed the emperor, who appointed Yi Xu's younger brother, Yi Zong, as a gentleman of the palace and posted him as interior chief of Shangdang.

以捕按太后外孫脩成子中，上以為能，遷為河內都尉。 His arrest and investigation of Zhong, a maternal grandson of the empress dowager, impressed the throne, and he became military governor of Henei.