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According to the Rites of Zhou, under the feudal fengjian governance system, aristocratic feudal lords were entitled to nine consorts in total, and cannot marry again after having nine consorts, which makes for one wife and eight concubines. For other officers, they are entitled to one wife and one concubine.
The social system of the Zhou dynasty is sometimes referred to as the Chinese feudalism and was the combination of fengjian (enfeoffment and establishment) and zongfa (clan law). Male subjects were classified into, in descending order of rank: the landed nobles – Zhuhou (諸侯 pinyin zhū hóu),
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.
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The Zhou dynasty (/ dʒ oʊ / JOH) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from c. 1046 BC until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese history. ...
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 ).
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.
Painting of the Duke of Zhou by Kanō Sansetsu. Japan, Edo period, 1632. His personal name was Dan (旦).He was the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou and Queen Tai Si.His eldest brother Bo Yikao predeceased their father (supposedly a victim of cannibalism); the second-eldest defeated the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye around 1046 BC, ascending the throne as King Wu.