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  2. Empresses in the Palace - Wikipedia

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    Originally a maid in the service of the Yongzheng Emperor, she later moves to the Empress Dowager. She is also the guidance maid to Zhen Huan and An Lingrong upon their selection as imperial consorts. Yang Kaichun Jianqiu (剪秋) The Empress's trusted senior maid. She tries to poison Zhen Huan but poisoned Meng Jingxian instead. Li Yingya

  3. Empress Xiaoshengxian - Wikipedia

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    Empress Xiaoshengxian's personal name was unknown and not recorded in history. She was born to the upper class Niohuru clan in Beijing. Father: Lingzhu (凌柱; 1664–1754), served as a fourth rank military official (四品典儀), and held the title of a first class duke (一等公)

  4. Empress dowager - Wikipedia

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    Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) (Chinese and Japanese: 皇太后; pinyin: huángtàihòu; rōmaji: Kōtaigō; Korean: 황태후 (皇太后); romaja: Hwang Tae Hu; Vietnamese: Hoàng Thái Hậu (皇太后)) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese monarch in the Chinese cultural sphere.

  5. List of Chinese empresses and queens - Wikipedia

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    The title, Empress dowager, could be granted a widow of an Emperor even when she had not been the Empress consort during the reign of her spouse. Therefore, a separate list is given of the Empresses dowager, which, in some cases, equals the list of Empresses consort, and in other cases, not.

  6. The Legend of Mi Yue - Wikipedia

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    A nobleman from the Yong State who becomes a confidant of King Ying Si and Madame Ying. Eventually helping Mi Yue as she becomes the Empress Dowager. Jin Tiefeng as Gan Mao The Right Chancellor (Junior Prime Minister). He befriended Mi Shu and Ying Dang, strained the relationship between Mi Shu and Mi Yue, then fled to Wei State.

  7. Imperial Chinese harem system - Wikipedia

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    In the cases when the new emperor's birth mother was one of the former emperor's imperial consorts, she would also become empress dowager and would be known as sage mother, empress dowager (聖母皇太后; shèngmŭ huángtàihòu), as well as being posthumously honored as empress. An empress dowager who lived through the reigns of at least ...

  8. Empress Xiaozhuangwen - Wikipedia

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    As empress dowager and grand empress dowager, she had significant influence in the Qing imperial court and was highly respected for her political wisdom and insight. After her death, she was posthumously honoured with the title Empress Xiaozhuangwen, although she never held the rank of empress consort during her lifetime.

  9. Empress Dowager Zheng - Wikipedia

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    Empress Dowager Zheng had long resented Grand Empress Dowager Guo from the days when she was a servant girl under then-Consort Guo. It was said that because of this, and because Emperor Xuānzong suspected Grand Empress Dowager Guo of being complicit in Emperor Xianzong's suspicious death, Emperor Xuānzong did not accord Grand Empress Dowager ...