Empress Mingdao

Posthumous name
	Empress Mingdao (明悼皇后)

Empress Mao
毛皇后
Empress Mao; 毛皇后
Empress consort of Cao Wei
Tenure	26 December 227 – 22 September 237
Predecessor	Empress Wende
Successor	Empress Mingyuan
Born	Unknown
Died	22 September 237
Spouse	Cao Rui
Issue	Cao Yin, Prince Ai of Anping
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Empress Mingdao (明悼皇后)
Father	Mao Jia (毛嘉)

Empress Mao (fl. 223 – 22 September 237),^[a] personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Mingdao, was an empress of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Born to a lowly family, she was married to Cao Rui, the second emperor of Wei, but would later lose favor and her life.^[2]^[3]

^ ([景初元年九月]庚辰，皇后毛氏卒。) Sanguozhi vol. 3.
^ Sanguozhi vol.5.
^ Cutter, Robert Joe; Crowell, William Gordon (1999-01-01). Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 53–54, 111–112. ISBN 978-0-8248-1945-3.

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[1] ([景初元年九月]庚辰，皇后毛氏卒。) Sanguozhi vol. 3.

[3] Sanguozhi vol.5.

[4] Cutter, Robert Joe; Crowell, William Gordon (1999-01-01). Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States With Pei Songzhi's Commentary. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 53–54, 111–112. ISBN 978-0-8248-1945-3.

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