Empress Lü

Empress of Han China from 202 to 195 BC, regent from 195 to 180 BC

Lü Zhi (241 BC – 18 August 180 BC), courtesy name Exu (娥姁), and commonly known as Empress Lü (traditional Chinese: 呂后; simplified Chinese: 吕后; pinyin: Lǚ Hòu) and formally Empress Gao of Han (漢高后; 汉高后; Hàn Gāo Hòu), was the empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty. They had two known children, Liu Ying (later Emperor Hui of Han) and Princess Yuan of Lu. Lü was the first woman to assume the title of "empress of China" and paramount power.

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