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Zhao Ji (Chinese: 趙 姬; lit. 'Consort Zhao'; c. 280 –228 BC), personal name unknown, was the wife of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. Upon her marriage, she was the Lady Zhao; after the king's death, she was the Queen Dowager (Chinese: 太 后).
A queen dowager or dowager queen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case of the widow of an emperor, the title of empress dowager is used.
Queen Dowager Zhao was the wife of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. A native of the State of Zhao, she was a concubine of the businessman Lü Buwei, who gave her to Prince Yiren of Qin who was then living in Zhao as a hostage.
Allegedly falsifying his castration in order to gain entry into the court of Qin, he became the favorite of Queen Dowager Zhao, the mother of Qin Shi Huang, later the First Emperor of China. He was enfeoffed as Marquis of Changxin (長信侯).
Learn about the life and scandals of Queen Dowager Zhao, the mother of the first Qin Emperor. She was a dancer and singer who lived during the Warring States period of China.
China's young emperor, Qin Shi Huang, faced a serious threat to his reign in 238 BC. At the heart of it was his mother, Queen Zhao, and her ambitious lover, Lao Ai.
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This chapter considers the connection Wu Zhao contrived between herself and Mother Li and how, as Gaozong's coruler and grand dowager–regent, he utilized Mother Li's identity as progenitor (of the Li clan, the ruling family of the Tang dynasty) to situate herself symbolically as queen mother of the imperial house.
