Wang Yuanji



Wang Yuanji is the empress dowager of the Jin Dynasty and Sima Zhao's wife in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Biography
Wang Yuanji's father is the Wei General Wang Su, a Confucian scholar. His daughter was known in her youth for her childlike loyalty and devotion. When she married Sima Zhao is not known, but she gave birth to five sons and a daughter. According to traditional historiography, it was she who warned Sima Zhao of the rebellion of General Zhong Hui.

After Sima Zhao's death, Sima Yan inherited his position as regent. Soon he forced the Wei Emperor Cao Huan to abdicate in his favor, and established as Emperor Wu of Jin the Jin Dynasty. He raised his mother Wang Yuanji to the Empress Mother.

Wang Yuanji remained true to her nature and kept modestly out of politics. She is died and was buried with her husband Sima Zhao, with honors paid to an empress.