Personal Information
- Father
- Emperor Yuan of Han
- Mother
- Empress Wang Zhengjun, aunt of Wang Mang
- Wives
- Empress Xu (deposed 18 BC, committed suicide 8 BC)
- Empress Zhao Feiyan (forced to commit suicide 1 BC by Wang Mang)
- Major Concubines
- Consort Ban, poet, scholar and aunt of historian Ban Biao and grandaunt to his children -- historian Ban Gu, general Ban Chao, and female historian Ban Zhao
- Consort Zhao Hede (committed suicide 7 BC, younger sister of Empress Zhao Feiyan)
- Consort Li Ping, formerly Consort Ban's handmaiden
- Consort Cao, alleged mother of one of his murdered sons, forced to commit suicide when her son was murdered
- Consort Xu, alleged mother of one of his murdered sons and likely relative of Empress Xu
- Children
- 2 sons by consorts, allegedly murdered 11 BC by Consort Zhao Hede and possibly Emperor Cheng himself; however, decades later there were pretenders who claimed to be Emperor Cheng's sons
Read more about this topic: Emperor Cheng Of Han
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