Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty Liu Zhi and Empress Dowager Dou Miao passed away

In the eighth year of Yanxi (165), Dou Miao entered the palace and was granted the title of noble person. She was made queen in the same year. Although Dou Miao was an empress, she was rarely favored by Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Yongkang (167), Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty passed away and Dou Miao was honored as the Empress Dowager. Because Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty had no son, Liu Hong, Marquis of Jieduting, was made emperor, which was Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Xiping (172), Dou Miao died and was posthumously named Empress Huan Si. She was buried in Xuanling with Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty.

Dou Miao was the third queen of Emperor Huan of Han. Although she was unparalleled in beauty, she was not favored by Emperor Huan. So she transferred her hatred to Emperor Huan's favorite concubine. Before Emperor Huan's bones could even cold, she brutally killed those favorite concubines. She also wanted to govern the court, so she chose Liu Hong, who was only twelve years old, as the emperor. However, at this time, there was a party struggle between the scholar-official group and the eunuch group in the court. In just three years, Empress Dowager Dou Miao lost power in this struggle and finally died of depression.

Dou Miao had always been jealous and cruel, and was angry with Tian Sheng and others. When Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty's coffin was still in the front hall, he killed Tian Sheng. He also wanted to kill all the noble people of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, but Guan Ba and Su Kang tried hard to remonstrate but did not do anything. At that time, Dou Wu plotted to kill eunuchs, but Cao Jie and others falsely claimed that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to kill Dou Wu and moved Dou Miao to Yuntai in Nangong. Dou Miao's family members were exiled to Bijing. Although Dou Wu was killed, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty still remembered the merits of Empress Dowager Dou Miao in making him emperor. On the first day of October in the fourth year of Jianning (171), he led his ministers to Nangong to pay homage to Empress Dowager Dou Miao and personally offered his birthday greetings. Huang Men ordered Dong Meng to complain many times for Empress Dowager Dou Miao. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty accepted them one by one, and the support provided increased compared with before. Cao Jie and Wang Fuji hated Dong Meng for being attached to and helping Empress Dowager Dou Miao, so they framed him for slandering the mother of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Dong Family (Empress Dowager Dong). Dong Meng was imprisoned and died for his crime.