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((Short description|Han dynasty concubine (c.224 – 194 BC)))
((for|the Qing dynasty imperial consort|Consort Qi (Qing dynasty)))
((More citations needed|date=February 2012))
((Infobox royalty
|name=Consort Qi
|birth_date = 224? BC<ref>Lady Qi's birth year was not recorded; her ages when she married Liu Bang, gave birth to her son [[Liu Ruyi]] and at her death were also not recorded.</ref>
|death_date=194 BC
|spouse=[[Emperor Gaozu of Han]]
|issue=[[Liu Ruyi]]
))
((Infobox Chinese|c=戚姬|p=Qī Jī|altname=Lady Qi|c2=戚夫人|p2=Qī Fūrén))

'''Consort Qi''' ((NoteTag|The personal name "Yi" (懿) isn't recorded in history; it comes from a work by [[Bo Yang]]. Bo in turn did not cite where he got the name from.))(224? – 194 BC), also known as '''Lady Qi''', was a consort of [[Emperor Gaozu of Han|Emperor Gaozu]], founder of the [[Han dynasty]].<ref>((Cite book |last1=Swartz |first1=Wendy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AeiIl2y6vJQC&dq=Consort+Qi+gaozu&pg=PA265 |title=Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook |last2=Campany |first2=Robert Ford |last3=Lu |first3=Yang |last4=Choo |first4=Jessey |date=2014-03-11 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-53100-9 |language=en))</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:戚夫人墓.png|thumb|The tomb of Concubine Qi, buried near Emperor Gaozu, in [[Xianyang]], Shaanxi]]
It is important to note that most of our information about Lady Qi comes from sources whose accuracy might be in question and authors known for hyperbole.<ref>((Cite book |last=Atkins |first=Paul S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFkEEAAAQBAJ&dq=Consort+Qi+gaozu&pg=PA135 |title=Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet |date=2017-02-28 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-5870-4 |language=en))</ref> Her rival, [[Empress Lü|Empress Lü Zhi]], was used to symbolize the supposed dangers of women in power; thus, Lady Qi and her alleged fate have been formed into a rhetorical tool.<ref>((Cite book |last=Brown |first=Kerry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rvBDwAAQBAJ&dq=Consort+Qi+gaozu&pg=PA201 |title=Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography |date=2017-12-27 |publisher=Berkshire Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-933782-61-4 |language=en))</ref>

Qi was born in [[Dingtao]], [[Shandong]]. She bore [[Emperor Gaozu of Han|Emperor Gaozu]] a son [[Liu Ruyi]], who was later installed as Prince of [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]]. Gaozu felt that the crown prince [[Emperor Hui of Han|Liu Ying]] (his second son) was an unsuitable heir to his throne. He tried several times, fruitlessly, to replace Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother Empress Lü Zhi. Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless, Gaozu ordered Liu Ruyi to proceed to his [[Zhao (Han dynasty kingdom)|principality of Zhao]] (capital in present-day [[Handan]], [[Hebei]]) on his deathbed. Qi did not accompany Liu Ruyi.

Lü Zhi, now declared the [[empress dowager]] when her son Liu Ying succeeded to the throne as Emperor Hui after Gaozu's death, commenced an inhumane plot against Qi and Liu Ruyi. She first had Qi arrested and treated her like a convict (dressed in prison garb, head shaved, and in [[stocks]]). She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital [[Chang'an]] in an attempt that was initially resisted by Liu Ruyi's chief of staff [[Zhou Chang]] (周昌), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir. Instead of directly moving against Zhou Chang and Liu Ruyi, Lü Zhi circumvented Zhou by first summoning him to Chang'an, and then summoning Liu Ruyi. She then consummated her plot to put Qi and Liu Ruyi to death, which was documented in Volume 9 of the historical text ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'' as follows:

::Emperor Xiaohui (Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of Han) kept his step-brother King of Zhao (Liu Ruyi，King Yin of Zhao) by his side in the palace and checked for poison in any aliment delivered to him. Emperor Xiaohui also brought Liu Ruyi with him wherever he went. In one early morning in the twelfth month of the first year of Emperor Xiaohui, the emperor went on a hunting trip; this time King of Zhao was left alone because he could not wake up early. Emperor Xiaohui supposed his mother would not plot against King of Zhao as several months had passed without any occurrence. Nevertheless, Empress Dowager had an assassin force venom down King of Zhao's throat...When the Emperor came back, Liu Ruyi was already dead. She then had Concubine Qi's limbs chopped off, [[Blinding (punishment)|blinded her by gouging out her eyes]], cut off her tongue, cut off her nose, cut off her ears, forced her to drink a potion that made her mute, made her dumb with toxins, and locked her in the pigsty, and called her a "'''human swine'''" (人彘). Several days after, Emperor Xiaohui saw the "human swine", and after realising who the "human swine" was, the emperor was so sick of his mother's cruelty that he virtually relinquished his authority and indulged in carnal pleasures.

Both Qi and her son died in the first year of Emperor Hui's reign.

== Connection to the game of weiqi ==
((unreferenced section|date=February 2012))
According to ''Xijing Zaji'' (西京雜記) by Hong Ge, Qi had a maid named Jia Peilan (賈佩蘭) who escaped and later married to a commoner named Duan Ru (段儒) from [[Fufeng (region)|Fufeng Prefecture]] (west of present-day [[Xi'an]], [[Shaanxi]]). She described Qi as a very beautiful woman, a great songwriter and [[Go (board game)|weiqi]] player. On the fourth day of the eighth [[lunar month]] every year, Qi would play a weiqi game with [[Emperor Gaozu of Han|Emperor Gaozu]] in the bamboo forest on the north side of the palace. The winner would make a wish that they believed to come true, while the loser would suffer from illness for the year; however loser can avoid this bad luck by cutting off a strand of hair and praying to the [[North Star]].

Qi won every year and wished for good fortune for the Han dynasty.

Jia Peilan is credited in passing out [[Han dynasty]] court customs of [[Double Ninth Festival]] to commoners.

==References==
((reflist))
* [[Sima Qian]]. ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]''.

==Notes==
((reflist|group=note))
((DEFAULTSORT:Qi, Concubine))
[[Category:224 BC births]]
[[Category:194 BC deaths]]
[[Category:Han dynasty imperial consorts]]
[[Category:2nd-century BC Chinese women]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]
[[Category:Torture victims]]
[[Category:Emperor Gaozu of Han]]
[[Category:Chinese concubines]]
[[Category:3rd-century BC Chinese women writers]]

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