Xiahou

Lady Xiahou (夏侯氏, 180s – after 219) or Xiahouji (夏侯姫) was a Chinese noble woman of the Xiahou clan of the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period. She was the niece of Xiahou Yuan, a famous general of the warlord Cao Cao. She married Zhang Fei, a general of the Liu Bei, founder of the state of Shu Han. She had one daughter who became empress of the state of Shu. Life In 200, Xiahou was thirteen or fourteen years old by East Asian age reckoning, and was captured by Zhang Fei when she went out to collect firewood in the local area of Yu County. Zhang Fei discovered that she was a woman from a good family and married her. Her origins and the exact circumstances of her abduction and marriage, including her feelings on the matter, are not clearly known. She was from the Xiahou clan which was one of the main maintainers of the state of Cao Wei which was a rival of what would become the state of Shu Han that Zhang Fei would serve. There are anecdotes that say that Xiahou Yuan abandoned his son for a year to save his late brother's daughter; it is unknown if that person would be Lady Xiahou. Lady Xiahou bore one daughter who became empress of the state of Shu Han.