Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji (王元姬) (217-268), formally Empress Wenming (文明皇后, literally, "the civil and understanding empress") was an empress dowager during the Jin Dynasty (265-420). She was Sima Zhao's wife and the mother of the dynasty's first emperor, Emperor Wu (Sima Yan). Events Macrinus becomes Roman Emperor on the death of Caracalla. ... Events The Alamanni invade Italy. ... Empress Dowager (Chinese, Korean and Japanese: 皇太后; Chinese pinyin Húang Tài Hòu, Korean pronunciation: Hwang Tae Hu, Japanese pronunciation: Kōtaigō) was title given to the mother of a Chinese emperor. ... The Jin Dynasty (晉 pinyin jìn, 265-420) followed the Three Kingdoms and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. ... Sima Zhao (司馬昭) (211-264) was the son of Prime Minister Sima Yi of the Kingdom of Wei, during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. ... Emperor Wu of Jin, sim. ...

Wang Yuanji's father Wang Su (王肅) was a Cao Wei general and Confucian scholar. She was known for her filial piety when she was young. It was not not known when she married Sima Zhao, but it is known she bore him five sons and a daughter. According to traditional history, she correctly saw that Zhong Hui was overly ambitious and warned her husband that Zhong would eventually rebel. Cao Wei (Simplified/Traditional Chinese: 曹魏; pinyin: Cáo Wèi), also known in English as the Kingdom of Wei (ch: 魏, py: wèi, wg: wei) (220-265) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty. ... Confucianism (儒家 Pinyin: rújiā The School of the Scholars), sometimes translated as the School of Literati, is an East Asian ethical, religious and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of Confucius. ... Zhong Hui (鍾會) was a general of the Wei Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period in China. ...

After Sima Zhao's death in 265, Sima Yan inherited his position as the paramount authority of Cao Wei and soon forced the Cao Wei emperor Cao Huan to abdicate to him, establishing Jin Dynasty. He honored her as empress dowager. She was said to be a humble empress dowager who was not much involved in political matters. She died in 268 and was buried with her husband Sima Zhao, with honors due an empress. Events Wei Yuandi abdicates, end of the China. ... Cao Huan, ch. ... Events The Alamanni invade Italy. ...