trad kingdom simp death_date wg pinyin title birth_date article_title name
王元姬 jin dynasty 王元姬 268 -lrb- aged 51 -rrb- wang yüan-chi wáng yuánjī empress dowager 217 wang yuanji
 wang yuanji
wang yuanji

wang yuanji -lrb- 217 -- 268 -rrb- was the wife of sima zhao , a regent of the state of cao wei in the three kingdoms period .
she became the empress dowager during the reign of her son sima yan , who ended the wei regime and founded the jin dynasty .
she was posthumously honoured as `` empress wenming '' -lrb- lit .
`` civil and understanding empress '' -rrb- after her death .
