Empress Xiaozhaoren

Empress Xiaozhaoren
A portrait of Empress Xiaozhaoren in court dress (left) and daily dress (right)
Empress consort of the Qing dynasty
Tenure18 September 1677 – 18 March 1678
PredecessorEmpress Xiaochengren
SuccessorEmpress Xiaoyiren
Born1653 (1653)
(順治十年)
Died18 March 1678(1678-03-18) (aged 24–25)
(康熙十七年 二月 二十六日)
Kunning Palace, Forbidden City, Beijing
Burial
Jing Mausoleum, Eastern Qing tombs
Spouse
(m. 1665)
Posthumous name
Empress Xiaozhao Jingshu Minghui Zhenghe Anyu Duanmu Qintian Shunsheng Ren (孝昭靜淑明惠正和安裕端穆欽天順聖仁皇后)
HouseNiohuru (鈕祜祿氏; by birth)
Aisin-Gioro (by marriage)
FatherEbilun
MotherLady Šušu-Gioro
Empress Xiaozhaoren
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese孝昭仁皇后
Simplified Chinese孝昭仁皇后
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiàozhāorén Huánghòu
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᡥᡳᠶᠣᠣᡧᡠᠩᡤᠠ
ᡤᡝᠩᡤᡳᠶᡝᠨ
ᡤᠣᠰᡳᠨ
ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩᡥᡝᠣ
Romanizationhiyoošungga genggiyen gosin hūwangheo

Empress Xiaozhaoren (1653 – 18 March 1678), of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Niohuru clan, was the second wife of the Kangxi Emperor.[1][2] She was empress of China during the Qing dynasty from 1677 until her death in 1678.[3]

Her father was the regent Ebilun, and she was originally an imperial concubine until her promotion to empress in 1677.[4]

  1. ^ McMahon, Keith (21 April 2016). Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-5502-9.
  2. ^ Hua, Hsieh Bao (18 June 2014). Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-4516-6.
  3. ^ Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. New World Press. 2007. ISBN 978-7-80228-509-5.
  4. ^ Standaert, Nicolas (1 July 2011). The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-80004-2.