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The following is a list of empresses and queens consort of China. China has periodically been divided into kingdoms as well as united under empires, resulting in consorts titled both queen and empress. The empress title could also be given posthumously.
Yang Xianrong (羊獻容) (died 13 May 322 [5]), posthumous name (as honored by Former Zhao) Empress Xianwen (獻文皇后, literally "the wise and civil empress"), was an empress—uniquely in the history of China, for two different dynastic empires and two different emperors.
The Empress of China (simplified Chinese: 武媚娘传奇; traditional Chinese: 武媚娘傳奇; pinyin: Wǔ Mèiniáng chuánqí) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on events in the 7th and 8th-century Tang dynasty, starring producer Fan Bingbing as the titular character Wu Zetian—the only female emperor (empress regnant) in Chinese history.
Empress of China, also known as Chinese Queen, was a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of 360 tons, [3] initially built in 1783 for service as a privateer. [5] After the Treaty of Paris brought a formal end to the American Revolutionary War , the vessel was refitted for commercial purposes.
Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China. Oxford, England: One World Publications. ISBN 978-1-85168-530-1. Clements, Jonathan (2007). Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3961-4.
Xu Hui (Chinese: 徐惠; 627–650) was a female Chinese poet, "the first of all women poets of the Tang, an individual scarcely even noted in traditional literary history... but the only one of the thirty-plus 'empresses and consorts'...given biographies in the official Tang histories to have any of her own writings quoted there."
The Chen dynasty of China had five empresses consort in its 32-year history: Empress Zhang Yao'er (r. 557–559), the wife of Emperor Wu. [1] [better source needed] Empress Shen Miaorong (r. 559–566), the wife of Emperor Chen. Empress Wang (r. 566–568), the wife of Emperor Fei. Empress Liu (r. 569–582), the wife of Emperor Xuan.
She returned to China, was admitted to the Forbidden City and became Wanrong's tutor. [2] Wanrong married Puyi in December 1922 and became the last empress of China. Ingram began teaching Wanrong English in 1922, shortly before the marriage [ 3 ] and recalled the yellow satin robe Wanrong wore on her wedding day.