Empress Mao (Ming)
Empress Mao (died 22 September 237), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Mingdao, was an empress of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
She was married to Cao Rui, the second emperor of Wei.
Empress Mao became a concubine of Cao Rui during the reign of his father, Cao Pi.
Cao Rui was the Prince of Pingyuan at that time.
She was not his wife or princess – that status belonged to Cao Rui's first wife, Lady Yu.
However, she was Cao Rui's favourite concubine.
When Cao Rui became emperor in 226 following his father's death, it was widely expected that Lady Yu, as his wife, would be created empress.
However, Cao Rui created Consort Mao empress instead in 227.
Even though her family was of low birth, her father Mao Jia (毛嘉), who was a carpenter, and brother Mao Zeng (毛曾) were given honorary positions, and Mao Jia was created a marquis.
When Cao Rui became aware that the aristocratic families looked down at his father-in-law, he promoted Mao Jia further and ordered all important officials to attend feasts at the Mao residence.
However, as the years went by, Empress Mao began to lose Cao Rui's favour.
By 237, Consort Guo had replaced her as Cao Rui's favourite.
Once, when Cao Rui was attending a feast hosted by Consort Guo, Consort Guo requested that Empress Mao be invited to join as well, but Cao Rui refused and further ordered that no news about the feast be given to Empress Mao.
However, the news leaked, and Empress Mao talked about the feast with him anyway.
He became exceedingly angry, and killed a number of his attendants whom he suspected of leaking the news to Empress Mao, and, inexplicably, ordered Empress Mao to commit suicide on 22 September 237, even though she was still buried on 25 October 237 with honours befitting an empress, and her family remained honoured.
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Empress Mao
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Cao Rui
Cao Rui  (204 or 206 – 22 January 239), courtesy name Yuanzhong, was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
His parentage is in dispute: his mother, Lady Zhen, was Yuan Xi's wife, but she later remarried Cao Pi, the first ruler of Wei.
Based on conflicting accounts of his age, Pei Songzhi calculated that, in order to be Cao Pi's son, Cao Rui could not have been 36 (by East Asian age reckoning) when he died as recorded, so the recorded age was in error; Lu Bi and Mou Guangsheng argued instead that Cao Rui was Yuan Xi's son.
Cao Rui's reign was viewed in many different ways throughout Chinese history.
He was an emperor who was known to have been a strong military strategist and a good leader astute in commissioning capable officials.
At the same time, he was personally a supporter of arts.
He devoted much resources into building palaces and ancestral temples, and his reign saw the stalemate between his empire, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu become more entrenched.
His building projects and his desire to have many concubines (who numbered in the thousands) greatly exhausted the imperial treasury.
On his deathbed, he entrusted his son Cao Fang to the regency of Cao Shuang and Sima Yi — a fatal mistake for his clan, as Cao Shuang monopolised power and governed incompetently, eventually drawing a violent reaction from Sima Yi, who overthrew him in a coup d'état (Incident at Gaoping Tombs) and became in control of the Wei government from AD 249, eventually allowing his grandson Sima Yan to usurp the throne in AD 266.
After his death, Cao Rui was posthumously honoured as "Emperor Ming" with the temple name "Liezu".

Question: Who is Empress Mao (Ming)'s mother-in-law?
Answer: Lady Zhen