Qin and Han · Consort

Empress Dowager Ji 紀太后

Ji Taihou

Attested BC 131

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Ji was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 131 紀太后
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 120

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Ji princess sister of Liu Cichang (紀翁主)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 122
Parent of Liu Cichang (劉次昌)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 120
Sibling of Brother of Empress Dowager Ji (紀太后弟)
younger-brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 121

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passages 131-134

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History

8 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 47Volume 38: The Five Sons of Emperor Gao · 8 passages

其母曰紀太后。 His mother was known as Empress Dowager Ji.

太后取其弟紀氏女為王后，王不愛。 She married him to a niece of her own Ji clan, but the king cared nothing for his Ji queen.

紀太后欲其家重寵，令其長女紀翁主入王宮正其後宮無令得近王，欲令愛紀氏女。 Empress Dowager Ji meant to keep power in her kin: she installed her eldest daughter, a princess by the Ji surname, inside the palace to police the harem and keep other women from the king's bed, hoping to force his affection onto the Ji girl.

皇太后有愛女曰脩成君，脩成君非劉氏子，太后憐之。 The empress dowager doted on a daughter named the Princess of Xiucheng—no child of the imperial Liu line—and showered her with tenderness.

脩成君有女娥，太后欲嫁之於諸侯。 The princess had a daughter, E, whom her mother hoped to marry off to a feudal king.

紀太后怒曰：「王有后，後宮備具。 Empress Dowager Ji exploded: "The king already has a queen and a full harem.

故以燕感太后。 He used the example of Yan to dissuade the empress dowager.

太后曰：「毋復言嫁女齊事。」 "Say no more of wedding a girl to Qi," she said.