Empress Quan (244 – early 300s), also known as Quan Huijie, was an empress of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was married to Sun Liang, the second emperor of Wu.
In May 252, Sun Liang ascended the throne upon the death of his father. On 16 February 253, he instated Lady Quan as the empress. Following that, Empress Quan's family and relatives rose to power as six members of the Quan clan (including Quan Shang) were enfeoffed as marquises and assumed high offices in the Wu government and military forces. This was regarded as a phenomenon because since the founding of Wu in 229, there had never been a case of the consort kin (relatives of the emperor's wives) playing prominent roles in the Wu political scene. In 257, when Zhuge Dan (a general from Wu's rival state Cao Wei) started a rebellion in the Wei-controlled Shouchun (壽春; around present-day Shou County, Anhui), he requested help from Wu so Sun Liang ordered the Quans to lead troops to Shouchun to assist Zhuge Dan. However, the rebellion was suppressed by Wei forces and Zhuge Dan was killed, while four of the Quans surrendered and defected to Wei, thereafter the Quans' influence in Wu weakened drastically.(夫人立為皇后,以尚為城門校尉,封都亭侯,代滕胤為太常、衞將軍,進封永平侯,錄尚書事。時全氏侯有五人,並典兵馬,其餘為侍郎、騎都尉,宿衞左右,自吳興,外戚貴盛莫及。及魏大將諸葛誕以壽春來附,而全懌、全端、全煒、全儀等並因此際降魏,全熈謀泄見殺,由是諸全衰弱。) Sanguozhi vol. 50.
In November 258, Sun Liang was deposed from the throne by Sun Chen, a distant relative of the Wu imperial family who rose to power in the 250s and became the regent of Wu. Sun Liang became known as the "Prince of Kuaiji" after his dethronement while Empress Quan also lost her place as the empress. In 260, Sun Liang's elder half-brother and successor, Sun Xiu (who eliminated Sun Chen after ascending the throne in 258) further demoted Sun Liang to "Marquis of Houguan" and sent Sun Liang to his marquisate in Houguan County (around present-day Fuzhou, Fujian). Lady Quan accompanied Sun Liang to Houguan County and settled there.(會孫綝廢亮為會稽王,後又黜為候官侯,夫人隨之國,居候官,尚將家屬徙零陵,追見殺。) Sanguozhi vol. 50. She returned to the Wu capital Jiankang (建業; present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu) after Wu was vanquished in 280 by forces of the Jin dynasty. She died sometime in the Yongning era (301–303) of the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin.(吳錄曰:亮妻惠解有容色,居候官,吳平乃歸,永寧中卒。) Wu Lu annotation in Sanguozhi vol. 50.
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