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The empress entourage was called yíjià (仪驾), the imperial noble consort and noble consorts entourage was called yízhàng (仪仗) and the consorts and concubines entourage was called cǎizhàng (彩仗). Those ranks of noble lady, first class attendant and second class attendant can't have a sedan chair, unless given/permitted by the ...
Queen Jiang (Chinese: 姜后), or Qi Jiang, was the consort of King Xuan of Zhou and the mother of King You of Zhou.She was a daughter of the duke of Qi, and as such a member of the Jiang clan which traditionally provided brides to marry the princes of the Zhou dynasty.
The Zhou dynasty grew out of a predynastic polity with its own existing power structure, primarily organized as a set of culturally affiliated kinship groups. The defining characteristics of a noble were their ancestral temple surname (姓; xíng), their lineage line within that ancestral surname, and seniority within that lineage line.
During imperial China (221 BCE – CE 1911), a wide variety of noble titles were granted. Some of these were hereditary; an overlapping subset were honorary. At the beginning of imperial China, the administration of territory was growing out of the older fengjian system, and the central government asserting more control over the old aristocracy.
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Consort Zhou (周貴人, personal name unknown) (died 16 April 363 [1]) was a Chinese imperial consort during the Jin Dynasty (266–420). She was a concubine of Emperor Cheng . [ 2 ] She was favored by him, and they had two sons – Sima Pi (later Emperor Ai ) and Sima Yi (later Emperor Fei ).
Consorts have played influential roles throughout the history of the monarchy despite holding no formal constitutional position. What is a royal consort? Skip to main content
Zhou legitimacy also arose indirectly from Shang material culture through the use of bronze ritual vessels, statues, ornaments, and weapons. As the Zhou emulated the Shang's large scale production of ceremonial bronzes, they developed an extensive system of bronze metalworking that required a large force of tribute labor.