Family Background and First Marriage
Wang Zhi's father was named Wang Zhong (王仲). Her mother Zang Er (臧兒) was a granddaughter of Zang Tu, the one-time Prince of Yan under Emperor Gao. Her parents had, in addition to her, a son Wang Xin (王信) and another daughter Wang Xixu (王息姁). They lived in Huaili (槐里, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi). After her father died, her mother remarried a man named Tian (田), and she had two more sons, Tian Fen (田蚡) and Tian Sheng (田勝).
When Wang Zhi was young, she was married to a Jin Wangsun (金王孫), and they had a daughter named Jin Su (金俗). After that, however, her mother was told by a fortuneteller that both of her daughters would become extremely honored. Zang got the idea to offer her daughters to then-Crown Prince Qi (later Emperor Jing) and forcibly divorced Zhi from her husband to do so.
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