Empress Xiaowen Dou of the Western Han Dynasty in history was originally just an ordinary peasant girl, and later by chance, she entered the palace as a palace person to serve Lü Yan, and after Lü Yan took power, she wanted to release a group of palace people out of the palace and reward them to the princes, and Dou shi was also among them, because her hometown was closer to the Zhao kingdom, so she asked the eunuchs responsible for repatriation to put their names in the list of the zhao state team. However, due to the eunuch's negligence, Lin forgot about it and arranged for her to go to the daikoku. But such an oversight made her finally become the empress, and finally sat in the position of empress.
When the procession was about to leave, she learned of this matter, and wept and complained about the eunuch, not wanting to go to the country, because there was a mandatory order of the edict, she had to go to the country. There were a total of four palace people who followed her to daiguo this time, but Liu Heng, the daiwang, only favored her.
Because she was more favored, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Liu Heng, the acting king, and the queen of Liu Heng at this time also gave birth to four sons, but this queen had a thin life, died early, and the sons born died early. Although daiwang's queen died early, Liu Heng had no intention of establishing a new queen.
Later, Lü Yan died. After Liu Heng ascended the throne, Liu Heng's eldest son Liu Qi became crown prince, and because Liu Heng needed to be made empress after becoming emperor, because his previous empress died early, but he had never made a queen, so now he did not know who to make an empress, and at this time Liu Heng's mother, Empress Bo, told Liu Heng to make the crown prince's mother empress.
So she sat on the queen's throne. Liu Heng also made her empress, and specially rewarded widows and widows in the world with loneliness, poverty and hardship, as well as cloth, silk, grain and meat for the elderly over the age of eighty and orphans under the age of nine.
It can be said that one person had ascended to heaven, and since Empress Dou's parents had long since died, Empress Bo posthumously honored Empress Dou's father as Marquis Ancheng and her mother as Lady Ancheng. Because Empress Dou left home in her early years, she never had any contact with her brother. After she was crowned empress, her younger brother Dou Guangguo was still working as a servant to others.
Then he learned that he was about to be crowned marquis, so he followed the lord's family to Chang'an. When he arrived in Chang'an, he heard that the new empress's surname was Dou, and he felt that the empress might be his sister. He wrote to Empress Dou, and after Empress Dou told Emperor Wen about it, Liu Heng, the Emperor of Wen, summoned Dou Guangguo. Dou Guangguo was able to tell him and his sister about when they were young, and Empress Dou wept bitterly with her brother after hearing this, and Emperor Wen Liu Heng was very touched and rewarded him with a lot of financial and field residences.
Because of the eunuch's negligence once, perhaps he did not take her request in the eye at all, but in the end he achieved him, and finally his son became the emperor and honored her as the empress, and also had the same authority as the emperor, and later the grandson Liu Che became the emperor, and she also sat in the position of empress dowager. It can really be said that it is a life of opening and hanging, a mistake, so that she will not spend the rest of her life in an ordinary way, but become a woman with rights.