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Nurse empress dowager was an honorific title given to emperors' wet nurses of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 6 relations: Crown prince, Emperor of China, Empress dowager, Northern Wei, Wet nurse, Xianbei.

  2. Chinese courtiers
  3. Chinese empresses dowager
  4. Northern Wei
  5. 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

Chinese empresses dowager

Northern Wei

Wet nursing

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_empress_dowager