Empress Zhang (Liu Shan's second wife)

Empress Zhang
Empress of Shu Han
Born	(Unknown)
Died	(Unknown)
Names
Traditional Chinese	張皇后
Simplified Chinese	张皇后
Pinyin	Zhāng Huánghòu
Wade–Giles	Chang Huang-hou

Empress Zhang (birth and death dates unknown), personal name unknown, was an empress of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period. She was a daughter of the Shu general Zhang Fei and a younger sister of Empress Jing'ai. In 237, she became an Imperial Consort (貴人) of the Shu emperor Liu Shan. In the first lunar month of 238, she became the empress, succeeding her elder sister, who died in the previous year. In 264, after Shu was conquered by the rival state of Cao Wei, Empress Zhang accompanied her husband to the Wei capital Luoyang.^[1]

Modern references

Empress Zhang is first introduced as a playable character in the fifth instalment of Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series. She was omitted from Dynasty Warriors 6, but was reintroduced in Dynasty Warriors 7 and has been present since. She is given the fictional name "Xingcai" in the games. Although there is no mention of her sister throughout the series, the Scholar Quiz of Dynasty Warriors 7 confirms that Xingcai is the second empress of Liu Shan.

See also

• Shu Han family trees
• List of people of the Three Kingdoms
• List of Dynasty Warriors characters

References

1. (後主張皇后，前後敬哀之妹也。建興十五年，入為貴人。延熙元年春正月，策曰：「朕統承大業，君臨天下，奉郊廟社稷。今以貴人為皇后，使行丞相事左將軍向朗持節授璽綬。勉脩中饋，恪肅禋祀，皇后其敬之哉！」咸熙元年，隨後主遷於洛陽。) Sanguozhi vol. 34.

• Chen Shou. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).