Lou Zhaojun, posthumous name Empress Wuming, was an empress dowager and grand empress dowager of the Chinese Northern Qi dynasty. She was the wife of Gao Huan, the paramount general of the Northern We
Gao Cheng, courtesy name Zihui, formally Prince Wenxiang of Bohai, later further posthumously honored by Northern Qi as Emperor Wenxiang with the temple name Shizong, was the paramount official of the
Lou Zhaojun
…Huan's lifetime was already influential on the political scene. After Gao Huan's death, she continued to exert influence through the regency of her son Gao Cheng, and then as empress dowager after another son Gao Yang (Emperor Wenxuan) seized the Eastern Wei throne and established the Northern Qi. She continued…