Qin and Han · Consort

Empress Dowager 太后

Taihou

Attested BC 17

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 17 太后
Directly stated · Book of Han 69, passage 161

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 69Volume 59: Zhang Tang · 4 passages

是時，上諸舅皆害其寵，白太后。 The emperor's uncles on his mother's side grew jealous of his influence and complained to the empress dowager.

太后以上春秋富，動作不節，甚以過放。 She rebuked Zhang Fang harshly, saying the emperor was still young and his conduct at court and abroad lacked restraint.

太后以放為言，出放為天水屬國都尉。 At the empress dowager's insistence he was transferred out again, this time as commandant of the Tianshui dependent state.

上雖愛放，然上迫太后，下用大臣，故常涕泣而遣之。 The emperor still loved Zhang Fang, but he could not withstand pressure from the empress dowager above and his ministers below, and more than once he dismissed him with tears in his eyes.