 Before her death in 202, Lady Wu summoned Zhang Zhao, Dong Xi and others and instructed them to help Sun Quan in governing the territories in Jiangnan.She was buried at Gaoling (高陵; believed to be somewhere in present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu).In 229, when Sun Quan declared himself Emperor and established the state of Eastern Wu, he granted his mother the posthumous title "Empress Wulie" ().