Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Empress Dowager 皇太后

Attested BC 139

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 139 建元二年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 103, passage 32

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 103Biographies of Wan Shi and Zhang Shu · 1 passage

皇太后以為儒者文多質少，今萬石君家不言而躬行，乃以長子建為郎中令，少子慶為內史。 The Empress Dowager considered that Confucian scholars were long on rhetoric but short on substance, whereas the household of the Marquis of Wanshi spoke little but practiced virtue in person. She therefore appointed the eldest son Jian as Palace Steward and the youngest son Qing as Interior Minister.