Chi ha sposato Empress Dowager Xiaoding?

Empress Dowager Xiaoding (1545 – 18 March 1614), of the Li clan, was a Chinese empress dowager of the Ming dynasty. She was one of the concubines of the Longqing Emperor and the mother of his successor, the Wanli Emperor.

After the Longqing Emperor's death, she became the regent and de facto ruler in place of the underage Wanli Emperor. She oversaw the emperor's education while Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng and the highest-ranking eunuch of the imperial palace, Feng Bao, managed the state administration. Although she did not typically involve herself in politics, she did intervene in the dispute over the appointment of the heir to the throne, where she supported the rights of the emperor's eldest son. Instead of focusing on politics, she devoted herself to religion. She was a devout Buddhist and surrounded herself with leading Buddhist monks of the time. She also used her influence and financial resources to extensively support Buddhist monasteries, particularly in the 1570s and 1580s, and to a lesser extent after 1601.

L'imperatore Longqing (明穆宗, nato come Zhu Zaihou , nome templare: Muzong (穆宗); Pechino, 4 marzo 1537 – Pechino, 5 luglio 1572) è stato il 12º imperatore della Cina della Dinastia Ming, tra il 1567 e il 1572, e fu nominato principe Yu nel 1539.