Empress Wang Zhenfeng

Wang Zhenfeng 王貞風
Liu Song Dynasty coloured in gray, covering majority of Southern China.
Born	436
Died	479
Other names	Empress Gong
Spouse(s)	Emperor Ming of Liu Song
Children	Liu Bosi (劉伯姒) Liu Boyuan (劉伯媛)
Parent(s)	Wang Senglang (father)

Wang Zhenfeng (王貞風) (436–479), formally Empress Gong (恭皇后, literally "the respectful empress"), was an empress of the Chinese Liu Song Dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Ming of Liu Song (Liu Yu).

Wang Zhenfeng was born in 436 into an aristocratic family. Her father Wang Senglang (王僧朗) was a mid-high-level official for Emperor Wen of Liu Song. Her older brother Wang Yu (王彧) was so highly regarded by Wen for his talent that he named a son of his after Wang Yu, and then had Liu Yu, then the Prince of Huaiyang, marry Wang Zhenfeng in 448. After marriage, Zhenfeng carried the title of Princess of Huaiyang, and after Liu Yu's title was changed to Prince of Xiangdong in 452, she became the Princess of Xiangdong. She bore him two daughters, Liu Bosi (劉伯姒) and Liu Boyuan (劉伯媛).

After Liu Yu’s impulsive and violent nephew Emperor Qianfei was assassinated in 465, Liu Yu, considered kind and open-minded by the officials and court attendants, was declared emperor (as Emperor Ming). He created Princess Wang empress. However, contrary to his pre-ascension reputation, he soon turned cruel and immoral as well. Official historical accounts written during the subsequent Southern Qi Dynasty said that he was also impotent, and that although he had 12 sons, those were the results of his having seized his brothers' pregnant concubines and kept the children if they bore males, or his having had his concubines have sexual relations with others. (However, the fact that Empress Wang had two daughters may argue against such allegations, because it appeared rather unlikely that Ming would do this over female children—indeed, the allegations stated that he would only do this if his brothers’ concubines bore males—or that the morally upright Empress Wang would engage in sexual relations with others, thus suggesting that the allegations were made to de-legitimize Ming’s sons Emperor Houfei and Emperor Shun vis-à-vis Southern Qi.)