Qin and Han · Consort

Empress Dowager Chen 陳太后

Chen taihou

Attested BC 128 - BC 123

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Chen was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 128 to BC 123 元朔中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 56, passage 195

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Liu Xiang (襄)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Han 56, passage 98

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 56Volume 47: The Three Sons of Emperor Wen · 4 passages

梁平王襄，母曰陳太后。 King Xiang the Peaceful of Liang was the son of Empress Dowager Chen.

王襄直使人開府取尊賜任后，又王及母陳太后事李太后多不順。 King Xiang at once sent men to open the treasury, take the vessel, and give it to Consort Ren; and both the king and his mother Empress Dowager Chen treated Empress Dowager Li with much disrespect.

公卿治，奏以為不孝，請誅王及太后。 The council of state tried the affair, ruled it grossly unfilial, and asked that both the king and the dowager empress be put to death.

削梁王五縣，奪王太后湯沐成陽邑，梟任後首於市，中郎胡等皆伏誅。 Five counties were cut from Liang, the dowager’s bathing-town income at Chengyang was seized, Consort Ren’s head was spiked in the marketplace, and Palace Gentleman Hu and his accomplices went to the block.