孙权——吴大帝
他十八岁继承了兄长的长江，并在五十二年间对两个邻居守住了它，在赤壁和夷陵战役中都取得了胜利。他是三个人中最后宣布自己为皇帝的，在229年，并在最后十年中毁掉了自己的宫廷，争夺哪个儿子将继承他。
孫權 · 大帝
简体 孙权 · 大帝
“Outlasted everyone, and wrecked his own succession at the end”
He inherited the Yangtze from his brother at eighteen and held it for fifty-two years against both his neighbours, winning at Red Cliffs and again at Yiling. He declared himself emperor last of the three, in 229, and spent his final decade destroying his own court in a fight over which son would follow him.
Wu under him pushed south into what is now Guangdong and Vietnam and sent fleets to Taiwan — the first recorded Chinese expedition there.
He never settled the position of empress: the woman he loved was refused the title by his officials, and it went unfilled for most of the reign. The Eastern Wu silk gathers the women of the state's four reigns together.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Written for this site to place Sun Quan's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.