Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Grand Empress Dowager 太皇太后

Attested BC 1

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Grand Empress Dowager was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 1 哀帝崩
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 105, passage 242

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Regent authority
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 242

Works and attributed material

Edict · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passages 249-251
Spoken instruction · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 244

Events and relationships

Summoned Wang Mang
Political · Issuer · With Wang Mang (王莽)
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 246

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 242

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 5 passages

太皇太后召大司馬賢，引見東廂，問以喪事調度。 The grand empress dowager called Dong Xian to the eastern gallery to quiz him on the funeral schedule.

太后曰：「新都侯莽前以大司馬奉送先帝大行，曉習故事，吾令莽佐君。」 She said, "Wang Mang of Xindu once ran the late emperor's obsequies as grand marshal; he knows the rites. Let him help you."

太后遣使者召莽。 She sent for Wang Mang at once.

既至，以太后指使尚書劾賢帝病不親醫藥，禁止賢不得入出宮殿司馬中。 When Wang Mang arrived, at the empress dowager’s instruction he had the Masters of Writing impeach Dong Xian for failing to oversee the emperor’s medicines personally during his illness, and forbade Xian to enter or leave the palace compound.

莽使謁者以太后詔即闕下冊賢曰：「間者以來，陰陽不調，災害並臻，元元蒙辜。 Wang Mang had an usher intone a rescript at the foot of the wall: "Heaven and earth are out of joint; calamities pile up and the people bear the cost.