The prototype is the first Empress Dowager in the history of China, known as Empress Xuan in history. Her life is very legendary.
Empress Xuan, surnamed Mi, Zi Zi, Qin, was born in Danyang, Chu. During the Warring States Period, she was the empress dowager of Qin Huiwen and the mother of Qin Zhaoxiang. She was the first person in the history of China to be called "Queen".
At the beginning of Qin's accession to the throne, Empress Xuan assumed the post of Empress Dowager. During her reign, she conquered Yiqu and destroyed the great disaster in western Qin.
Anecdotal allusions:
Began to be called the empress dowager
The title of queen mother was first seen in her. In Song Dynasty, Gao Cheng wrote in Volume I of Tales: "Zhou, the mother of the cloud in Records of the Historian Qin Benji, was named Xuan Empress. The queen mother thought it was said. Therefore, Fan Sui said that the King of Qin had listened to the Queen Mother alone. Later, Zhao and Wang Xinli also said that the Empress Dowager was pragmatic. This is the name of Empress Dowager Cixi, since Zhao Haoqi of Qin Dynasty. The Han Dynasty attacked Qin, so the emperor also honored his mother as the empress dowager. "
The queen mother's authoritarian power also began with her. In Song Dynasty, Chen Shidao's Twenty-two Collection of Houshan said: "My mother entered politics after Qin Xu Antai." She ruled the state of Qin for 36 years as the empress dowager, and her national strength developed greatly. "She won the land of the East, the weakness of the princes, tasted the emperor of the world, and all the countries in the world kowtowed to the west" (Historical Records).