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| consort      = yes
| name         = Empress Houshiyun<br/>霍诗韵皇后
| title        = Empress Dowager Chaoxing
| image        = Erdeni_Bumba.jpg
| image_size   = 242px
| caption      = Purported portrait of Empress Houshiyun during her marriage to the Zhengyou Emperor, 1859
| succession   = [[List of consorts of rulers of Jinae#Forner Huang dynasty|Empress consort of the Huang dynasty]]
| reign        = 29 October 1859 – 20 March 1868
| reign-type   = Tenure
| predecessor  = [[Empress Xiaogongzhang]]
| successor    = [[Empress Gongrangzhang]]
| succession1  = [[List of consorts of rulers of Jinae#Forner Huang dynasty|Empress dowager of the Huang dynasty]]
| reign1       = 20 March 1868 – 14 February 1898
| reign-type1  = Tenure
| predecessor1 = [[Empress Dowager Cixi]]
| successor1   = [[Empress Dowager Longyu]]
| birth_name   = Chen Wenxuan <br/>(陳文宣)
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1843|11|29|df=y}}<br />(貞祐十一年 十一月 二十九日)
| birth_place  = [[Yonggucheng]], [[Huang dynasty (1674–1902)|Huang Empire]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age |1899|12|28|1843|11|29|df=y}}<br />(元光十四年 十二月 二十八日)
| death_place  = [[Tooth Relic Temple]], [[Zhongnanhai]], [[Basingse]], [[Huang dynasty (1674–1902)|Huang Empire]]
| burial_place = Eastern Huang Tombs, [[Imperial Tombs of the Huang Dynasty]]
| spouse       = {{Marriage|[[Zhengyou Emperor]]|1859|1869|end=d}}
| consort      = 
| issue        = [[Yuanguang Emperor]]
| full name    = Chen Wenxuan <br/>(陳文宣)
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| posthumous name = '''Empress Houshi''' Chaoxing Zhenhua Zheshun Renhui Chengtian Yushen Zhide '''Yun'''<br/>('''霍诗'''超性貞化哲順仁徽成天育聖至德'''韵皇后'''<br/>'''霍诗'''贞化哲顺仁徽成天育圣至德'''韵皇后''')
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| house           = [[House of Li|Li]] (李; by birth)<br />[[House of Huang|Huang]] (黃; by marriage)
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| father          = Huoguang (霍光)
| mother          = Lady Xian
| religion        = [[Jin folk religion|Jin shamanism]], [[Jin N'nhivaranism]]
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==Life==
===Birth===

===Zhenyou era===

===Yuanguang era===

===Assassination===

==== Aftermath ====

==== Funeral procession and tomb ====

==Legacy==

==Photographs and illustrations==
Documents note that she was in an official royal family photograph, but its whereabouts are unknown if it perished or was kept hidden by Da Huang's government. Another royal family portrait does exist, but it purported to have been destroyed when the warlord [[Sun Dianying]] and his army [[Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum|plundered the Eastern Mausoleum]] during the early stages of the [[Wucheng Heavenly Rebellion]]. The mausoleum complex was methodically stripped down of its precious ornaments, and the entrance to her burial chamber was dynamited. Sun Dianying's army opened Chaoxing's coffin, threw her corpse (said to have been found intact) on the ground, and stole the jewels in the coffin. They also took the massive pearl placed in the empress dowager's mouth to protect her corpse from decomposing (in accordance with Jin tradition). They subsequently tried to burn down the complex as they fled the area when Royalist forces under the command of the [[Yuanguang Emperor|Yuanguang emperor]] stormed it. Royalist forces were able to put out the fire and found her body, which miraculously survived the fire, albeit in a ruinous state. The Yuanguang emperor brought his grandmother's remains along as he and his army [[Long March|fled the central plains]], reburying it in the Royalist stronghold in [[Baixiangshan]] during the [[Republic of Jin|Republican era]]. After the [[Corrective Movement]] and re-establishment of the Huang dynasty in 1943, the [[Gaozu Emperor]] ordered the restoration of the complex of Empress Dowager Chaoxing's tomb, and her remains were reburied once more there. When asked why he looted the Eastern mausoleum, Sun Dianying claimed the desecration was revenge for the fallen in the [[First Cross-Strait War]]. 

Wang Jinyu, a professor at [[Basingse University]], said that the reason why there are not many photos of the Empress Dowager was because she lived in constant fear of the early-modern Jin superstition of having one's soul snatched by a camera if their photograph was taken. Others believe that there are, in fact, photos of her since she was politically active and suspect that the [[Republic of Jin|ROJ government]] had removed any traces of the Empress Dowager after her assassination. 

=== Alleged photograph of Empress Dowager Chaoxing ===

=== Daoan illustration ===