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The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four Chinese women who were renowned for their beauty. The four are usually identified as Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, and Yang Yuhuan. [1] Among them, Diaochan is a fictional character while the rest have been greatly embellished by legend. They gained their reputation from the influence they ...
Tīn Hauh. Wu Zetian[note 8](17 February 624[note 9][note 10]– 16 December 705),[3][4]personal name WuZhao, was Empress of Chinafrom 660 to 705, ruling first through others and later in her own right. She ruled as empress consort through her husband Emperor Gaozong, and later as empress dowager through her sons Emperors Zhongzongand Ruizong ...
t. e. Women in ancient and imperial China were restricted from participating in various realms of social life, [ 1 ] through social stipulations that they remain indoors, whilst outside business should be conducted by men. [ 2 ] The strict division of the sexes, apparent in the policy that "men plow, women weave" (Chinese : 男耕女織 ...
The following is a list of women writers who have made significant contributions to modern Chinese women's writing. These writers include Lu Yin, Xie Wanying, Shi Pingmei, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Eileen Chang, and San Mao. Lu Yin (1898–1934), formerly known as Huang Shuyi, also known as Huang Ying, was born in Fujian Province.
Xi Shi. Xi Shi (Hsi Shih; Chinese: 西施; pinyin: Xī Shī; Wade–Giles: Hsi1 Shih1, lit. '(Lady) Shi of the West'), also known by the nickname Xizi, was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived in a small Yue village (today part of Zhuji, a county-level city in Shaoxing, Zhejiang) during the end of the ...
Hua Mulan (Chinese: 花木蘭) is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history. Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character. Hua Mulan is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu (無雙譜, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang. [citation needed]
Qiu Jin was known as an eloquent orator [17] who spoke out for women's rights, such as the freedom to marry, freedom of education, and abolishment of the practice of foot binding. In 1906 she founded China Women's News (Zhongguo nü bao), a radical women's journal with another female poet, Xu Zihua in Shanghai. [18]
What is known is that King Wu Ding cultivated the allegiance of neighbouring tribes by marrying one woman from each of them. Fu Hao (who was believed to be one of the king's 64 wives) entered the royal household through such a marriage and took advantage of the semi-matriarchal slave society to rise through the ranks [6] to become one of King Wu Ding's three consorts.