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It seems to me that the whole article was copied out of a book/paper. Meravec (talk) 12:19, 22 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Paragraph 3 of the section Emperor Hui's death and Empress Lü's taking control opens with the following: "Empress Dowager Lü then "promoted" Wang Ling . . ." Are the quotations meant to have meaning? If so, the intended meaning should be specified. If not, I suggest removing them to prevent confusion. Ipeaf (talk) 14:15, 5 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
her clan of Lüwas mostly to avoid a parenthetical in the lead. struck by an arrow →
suffered an arrow woundwas mostly because the next phrase is
allegedly caused his death, and it was the wound that did the causing, not the arrow. Puncture wounds in ancient warfare had a high mortality rate due to infection, which is probably what happened here. Consort Qi was also killed →
mutilated and publicly humiliatedis the change that pushed me over the line to making the edit rather than letting your improvement over the previous version stand. Poor consort Qi had her hands and feet cut off, her eyes gouged out, and her ears set on fire, then put in the latrine and mocked as "human swine". (Shiji, vol.9) I suppose we could put in the full story, but I felt called to honour her memory by changing "also killed" to give some sense of Empress Lü's cruelty. described as a favoured servant, which may indicate a romantic connection between the two used to be
her lover, Shen Yiji, which is not exactly attested although the wording of the sources makes it likely. I did track down where the rumours of romantic connection came from thanks to your tag, which is an excellent improvement since it's in a different chapter than the two cited as general references, so thank you for that.