Dou was born in a good family, and Lu Hou was elected as a family member in the palace. Lv Hou selected some ladies-in-waiting and gave them out of the palace to C's, five for each, and the plan was also selected. I live in Qinghe, near Zhao, and hope to go to Zhao. She asked the eunuch in charge of sending maids to put her name on the roster to go to Zhao. The eunuch forgot about it when distributing maids and mistakenly put her name on the list of going abroad. So she went to Daiguo. Although this is not her wish, when she came to Daiguo, Daiwang Liu Heng liked her very much. First she gave birth to a daughter, Liu Pu, and then two sons, Liu Qi and Liu Wu.

King Dai's original queen died shortly after giving birth to four sons. When the contemporary king became Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, four sons of former Wang Housheng also died one after another. In this way, Wendi soon acceded to the throne. In March of the first year of Yuan Dynasty (BC 180), Ji Du was made queen, the eldest son Liu Qili was made prince, Liu Pu was made Guantao princess royal, and the youngest son Liu Wuxian was made acting king, and later Liang Xiaowang.

Dou's parents died young and were buried in Guanjin. Empress Bo ordered Dou Hou's father to be An Chenghou and his mother to be An Chengfu, and set up a cemetery in Qinghe County, his hometown, with the same specifications and ceremony as Ling Wenyuan, the father of Empress Bo.

Dou has two brothers, the elder brother named Dou Changjun and the younger brother named Dou Guangguo. Shao Jun, the son of Guangguo, was abducted to other places when he was four or five years old because of his poor family, and there was no news of him. Later, it was sold for more than a dozen, and finally it went to Yiyang (now Yiyang West, Henan Province), where it was dug for others. One evening, more than 100 people slept on the cliff, and suddenly the cliff collapsed, killing all the people sleeping on the cliff. Only Shao Jun escaped. A few days later, he followed his master to Chang 'an, and heard that the newly sealed queen's surname was Dou, and her native place was Guanjin. Although Dou Guangguo was young when he left home, he remembered his native place and surname, and vaguely remembered picking mulberry leaves with his sister and falling from the tree. He wrote down these things in detail and entrusted them to Dou Hou. After seeing these materials, Dou Hou called Guangguo and asked about other things in detail. That's her own brother. The queen asked her brother to recall some past events. Shao Jun recalled: "When my sister left me, I remember ordering rice soup to wash my hair at the post office, and then giving me a meal before leaving. Dou Hou listened, holding his brother's hand and sobbing. Queen Dou rewarded the two brothers and settled them in the capital. Later, virtuous elders were invited to live with them and educate them. Because of this, Dou Changjun and Dou later became modest gentlemen and did not dare to be overbearing because of their status.