In the seventeenth year of Han Jianwu, emperor Liu Xiu deposed empress Guo Shengtong and replaced her with the original concubine Yin Lihua as an empress dowager for more than ten years, and finally ended this political farce that was originally a concubine.
As we all know, the ending after the abolition is not too good, such as the deposed Wang clan of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and the deposed NaLa clan of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, the ending is more tragic, and the Wang clan is even more "not allowed to die"... However, Guo Shengtong was an exception, not only did she retire and die well, but her son, the deposed prince Liu Qi, also died in the end with the honor of the princes. The death of both the deposed queen and the deposed prince is very rare in Chinese history!
After Guo Shengtong was deposed, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu did not kill her, nor did I "beat her into the cold palace", but instead made her the empress dowager of Zhongshan and allocated Changshan County to Zhongshan Guo, who specialized in providing for Guo Shengtong. Speaking of this, some people may have the same question as the questioner, Liu Xiu is still alive, and Guo Shengtong is his ex-wife, how did he become the empress?
This empress dowager is not the empress dowager
Careful people will surely find that Guo Shengtong's title as empress dowager is prefixed with a prefix - Empress Zhongshan. In other words, she was not the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty! It is only the empress dowager of the King of Zhongshan, or the empress dowager of the Zhongshan Kingdom. The Han Dynasty was the second time in China to test the water to seal the king (the first time was the Western Chu king Xiang Yu), and the first time to test the water to seal the king of the same emperor. Previously, the Qin Dynasty did not set up a prince, and the king of the pre-Qin period, including the king of Zhou Tianzi, and the princes of the Han Dynasty were not the same concept at all...