[1] She served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Xiang, who was the official mother of the future Emperor Huizong of Song.

When Huizong was still only a prince, he lived outside the imperial palace and would often visit the empress, who instructed Zheng and another one of her ladies to wait upon him.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey states that Empress Zheng would have been too old at this point to have been considered a good war prize for the Jurchen.

[7] Empress Zheng died in 1130 in Wuguo, Heilongjiang, where the Jurchen held the exiled members of the imperial clan.

[8] When Emperor Gaozong was eventually told of the death of Huizong and Empress Zheng in 1137, he reportedly reacted quite severely, ordering an extended period of mourning.