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About Empress Lü Zhi
Lü Zhi, courtesy name Exu (娥姁), and commonly known as Empress Lü and formally Empress Gao of Han, was the empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty. They had two known children, Liu Ying and Princess Yuan of Lu. Lü was the first woman to assume the title of "empress of China" and paramount power. After Gaozu's death, she was honored as empress dowager and ruled as regent during the short reigns of Emperor Hui and his successors Emperor Qianshao and Emperor Houshao.
Everything about Empress Lü Zhi →- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- empress consort, empress Dowager, regent
- Citizenship
- Han dynasty
- Born
- 241 BC
- Died
- 180 BC