Lady Wang 王夫人 was a wife of the Emperor of Wu Sun Quan 孫權. A favourite of Sun Quan, second only to Lady Bu 步氏. Mother of Sun He 孫和 and grandmother of the last emperor of Wu Sun Hao 孫皓.

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Records of the Three Kingdoms official biography [translation] Edit

Lady Wang of the ruler of Wu [Sun] Quan, was a native of Langye 琅邪 [commandery].[1] The Lady was selected to enter the palace and during the Huangwu 黃武 years[n 1] she became favoured and gave birth to [Sun] He 和. She was the favourite, second to Lady Bu 步氏.

After Lady Bu died, He was made heir-apparent (tàizǐ 太子), and Quan was going to make the Lady his empress. However the Princess Quan 全 [Sun Luban 孫鲁班, wife of Quan Zong 全琮] had always detested the Lady and slandered her little by little. When Quan was lying sick in bed, she said the Lady [Wang] was looking happy. Consequently, he became very angry, and the Lady died of worries because of that. When He's son [Sun] Hao 皓 was made ruler, he gave the Lady the posthumous title Empress Dayi (Dàyì huánghòu 大懿皇后; literally “Empress of Great Exemplarity”) and appointed her three younger brothers as full marquises.

[1] Book of Wu 吳書 states: Lady Wang's father was named Lujiu 盧九. 吳書 states: Lady Wang's father was named Lujiu 盧九.

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↑ GJCM notes: the years of Huangwu were from 222-229. Huangwu means “Martial Yellow”. At the time Sun Quan was the emperor.

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