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After thinking about it, Chun Yuyan agreed, and secretly mixed a medicine for the empress that contained a poison, aconite. [7] [5] When empress Xu took the poisoned medicine, she complained of feeling ill, and having a headache; Chun Yuyan calmly insisted this was normal, and gave the empress more of the supposed medicine. Soon thereafter ...
Tan's grandmother was the daughter of a physician. In fact, one reason Tan's grandfather married her grandmother was to learn medicine himself. Two of her grandparents' sons, including Tan's father, were able to pass the jinshi examinations, and they became officials. Due to the fondness her grandparents had for her, which evidence shows was ...
Dugu Qieluo or Dugu Jialuo [1] (Chinese: 獨孤伽羅; 544 [a] – September 10, 602 [b]), formally Empress Wenxian (Chinese: 文獻皇后), was an empress of the Sui dynasty of China.
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."
Ning Jing as Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang (Dayu'er) A Khorchin Mongol princess who later becomes Grand Empress Dowager of the Qing dynasty. Steve Ma as Dorgon. A brave general who helped establish the Qing dynasty and the lover of Dayu'er. Liu Dekai as Hong Taiji. The ambitious founder of the Qing dynasty and Dayu'er husband. Wu Qianqian as ...
Empress Wu, better known as Wu Zetian, was a consort of Emperors Taizong and Gaozong, as well as the only female emperor in Chinese history Imperial consorts of the Tang dynasty were organized in eight or nine ranks, in addition to the empress.
Emperor Taizong gave her the art name Wu Mei (武媚), meaning "glamorous". [11] Thus, Chinese people often refer to her as Wu Mei or Wu Meiniang (武媚娘) when they write about her youth, as Wu Hou (武后) when referring to her as empress consort and empress dowager, and as Wu Zetian (武則天) when referring to her as empress regnant.
Wanrong (Chinese: 婉容; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called the Xuantong Empress , referring to Puyi's era name .