The first king of China was Qin Shihuang, so who was the first queen?

Qin Shihuang made great contributions to the unification of the six countries and became the first monarch in the ancient history of China. However, Qin Shihuang did not appoint a queen before his death, but only established a system of letting the monarch's wife be a queen. Qin Shihuang never awarded the title of queen and prince in his life. Some netizens analyzed that Qin Shihuang did this because he didn't want the queen and prince to shake their power.

Qin Shihuang was the first king in the ancient history of China, but he didn't establish a queen. So who was the first queen? According to records, after the death of Qin Shihuang, with the help of Li Si and Zhao Gao, Qin Ershi became the monarch of Hu Hai. It's just that Zhao Gao was cheating on him. Hu Hai was forced to commit suicide at the age of 24, and then Zi Ying III ascended the throne. However, there is no record of Qin Ershi and Qin Sanshi conferring the Queen in history.

So, some netizens speculated that since the three generations of monarchs in the Qin Dynasty didn't confer the title of empress, the first empress should be the wife of Liu Bang, the founding monarch of the Han Dynasty, that is, Lv Zhi and Lv Hou.

According to records, Liu Bang ascended the throne in 202 BC and became the monarch of the Han Dynasty. Immediately, Lv Zhi, then queen, changed her name to Queen and established a prince. Prince Liu Ying, son of Lv Zhi.

Later, after Liu Bang's death, Liu Ying became the monarch, and then Lv Zhi changed from the empress to the empress dowager.

Therefore, through history, we can know that although Qin Shihuang established the system of sealing marquis, he did not canonize the queen before his death. Later, his descendants succeeded to the throne, probably because they were in office for a short time and didn't have time to book the queen, so they couldn't find their seal records. Then the people rose up against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, and Liu Bang became the winner of the war and established the Great Han Dynasty. After Liu Bang became a monarch, he immediately named his wife Lv Zhi as the queen, so it can also be considered that the first queen in history was Lv Zhi.