Empress Dowager Bian

Posthumous name
	Empress Wuxuan (武宣皇后)

Lady Bian
卞氏
Lady Bian; 卞氏
Grand empress dowager of Cao Wei
Tenure	29 June 226 – 9 July 230
Empress dowager of Cao Wei
Tenure	13 December 220 – 29 June 226
Successor	Empress Wende
Born	29 January 161; Linyi, Shandong
Died	9 July 230 (aged 69); Luoyang, Henan
Burial	Cao Cao Mausoleum
Spouse	Cao Cao
Issue	Cao Pi; Cao Zhang; Cao Zhi; Cao Xiong;
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Empress Wuxuan (武宣皇后)
Father	Bian Yuan

Lady Bian (29 January 161^[1] – 9 July 230),^[a] also known as Empress Dowager Bian or Grand Empress Dowager Bian, formally known as Empress Wuxuan, was an empress dowager and later grand empress dowager of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was the wife of Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundation of Wei. She bore Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, who ended the Han dynasty and founded Wei in 220 after his father's death.

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^ According to the Book of Wei by Wang Chen et al., Lady Bian was born on the jisi day of the 12th month of the 3rd year of the Yan'xi era of the reign of Emperor Huan of Han. ((后以汉延熹三年十二月己巳生...) Wei Shu annotation in Sanguozhi, vol.05.) However, this is likely to be an error as there is no jisi day in the 12th month of that year. There is a yisi (乙巳) day in that month, and the date corresponds to 29 Jan 161 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
^ ([太和四年]六月戊子，太皇太后崩。) Sanguozhi vol. 3.

[2] According to the Book of Wei by Wang Chen et al., Lady Bian was born on the jisi day of the 12th month of the 3rd year of the Yan'xi era of the reign of Emperor Huan of Han. ((后以汉延熹三年十二月己巳生...) Wei Shu annotation in Sanguozhi, vol.05.) However, this is likely to be an error as there is no jisi day in the 12th month of that year. There is a yisi (乙巳) day in that month, and the date corresponds to 29 Jan 161 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

[3] ([太和四年]六月戊子，太皇太后崩。) Sanguozhi vol. 3.

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