Nurse empress dowager, the Glossary
Nurse empress dowager was an honorific title given to emperors' wet nurses of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty.[1]
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6 relations: Crown prince, Emperor of China, Empress dowager, Northern Wei, Wet nurse, Xianbei.
- Chinese courtiers
- Chinese empresses dowager
- Northern Wei
- Wet nursing
Crown prince
A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.
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Emperor of China
Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.
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Empress dowager
Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese monarch in the Chinese cultural sphere.
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Northern Wei
Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.
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Wet nurse
A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child.
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Xianbei
The Xianbei were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China.
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See also
Chinese courtiers
- Jing Ke
- Liu Niangzi
- Madame Ke
- Master Geng
- Nurse empress dowager
- Song Ruolun
- Song Ruoshen
- Song Ruoxian
- Song Ruoxun
- Song Ruozhao
- Wang Sheng (Han dynasty)
- Wei Tuan'er
Chinese empresses dowager
- Empress Dowager He (Eastern Wu)
- Empress Dowager Liu (Sui dynasty)
- Empress Dowager Xiaoding
- Nurse empress dowager
Northern Wei
- Battle of Canhe Slope
- Battle of Shayuan
- Book of Wei
- Change of Xianbei names to Han names
- Equal-field system
- Feng Hetu
- Five Temple Caves
- Four Buddhist Persecutions in China
- History of the Northern Dynasties
- Huangze Temple
- Longmen Grottoes
- Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum
- Northern Celestial Masters
- Northern Wei
- Nurse empress dowager
- Oil refinery
- Shengle
- Sima Jinlong
- Six Frontier Towns
- Songyue Pagoda
- Taihe Shakyamuni
- Tiantishan Caves
- Western Wei
- Xumishan Grottoes
- Yonggu Mausoleum
- Yungang Grottoes
Wet nursing
- Baby farming
- Breastfeeding in Islam
- Children Act 1908
- Columna Lactaria
- Milk kinship
- Nuakea (deity)
- Nurse empress dowager
- Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 91
- Selling Mother's Milk
- Wet nurses