Nurse empress dowager
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nurse-empress-dowager-305-9108528
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Nurse empress dowager
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Nurse empress dowager was an honorific title given to emperors' wet nurses of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. The existence of the title owed itself to a peculiar institution of Northern Wei—that when a son of the emperor were to be made crown prince, his mother, if alive, must be forced to commit suicide. The crown princes were therefore raised by wet nurses, and when they became emperors, they would typically honor their wet nurses as nurse empress dowagers. Often, later in their
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Honorific title in ancient China
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2022-02-01T22:23:12Z
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