Chinese empresses

thumb|Illustration of Leizu teaching people to cultivate silkworms.

Jiandi (), also with variants and , is an important figure in Chinese history and Chinese mythology. She was the second wife of Emperor Ku, who was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. Jiandi was the mother of , the predynastic founder of the Shang dynasty (Xie's name is also written as whose Mandarin Chinese reflexes are either also Xie or Qi, the latter of which should not be confused with "abandoned", the birth-name of Houji, son of Ku's first wife Jiang Yuan and predynastic founder of the Zhou dynasty). Her pregnancy miraculously occurred following her swallowing or holding in her bosom the

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