Chinese Gējìs

Chinese painter (1895-1977)

Diaochan was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. Largely a fictional character, she is best known for her role in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which she becomes a key instrument in a scheme devised by Wang Yun, seducing Lü Bu and thereby provoking the formidable warrior to betray and kill his adoptive father, the tyrannical warlord Dong Zhuo. Diaochan is often portrayed as an admirable and resourceful character; however, in some tales, she is presented as a femme fatale and executed by Guan Yu following Lü Bu’s downfall.

Tang Dynasty poet Chinese woman poet in Qing Dynasty. CBDB ID = 0095068

Empress of Han Dynasty China

spouse of Emperor Wu of Han

Chinese courtesan (1618-1664); ranked first of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai

Cao Wei Empress Dowager (159-230); CBDB ID=135004

Empress Dowager of Cao Wei (184-235); CBDB ID=135146

Chinese courtesan, painter, poet, and composer (1548-1604)

Chinese general

poet, Chinese concubine (1624–1681)

Chinese courtesan, poet and painter (1619–1664); CBDB ID = 86216

Chinese imperial concubine and poet

wife of Emperor Zhenzong of Song

Chinese prostitute, poet, artist, mounted archer, and Buddhist nun (c. 1564-1650)

play written by Kong Shangren

Chinese empress and Chinese woman poet in Song Dynasty. CBDB ID=0004221 (1162–1233)

Ming and Qing dynasty painter and poet (1610-1685)

poem by Bai Juyi

Chinese imperial consort

Chinese painter

Chinese courtesan and poet

courtesan, singer, and musician during the Ming dynasty

Chinese poet

Chinese woman poet in Tang dynasty; CBDB = 92643

Tang chuanqi by Jiang Fang

Chinese prostitute of the Song Dynasty

Hongfu () is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from imperial China whose birth name was Zhang Chuchen (張出塵, alternatively 張初塵). She was purported to have lived during the Transition from Sui to Tang and was originally described in Biography of the Dragon-Beard Man from the Tang dynasty. She was a courtesan in the family of Sui dynasty minister Yang Su and eloped with Li Jing, an ally and future general of future Tang emperor Li Shimin. Hongfu, along with Li Jing and the "Dragon Beard Man," Qiu Ranke, are known as the "Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust" (風塵三俠). She was one of the few female mart

thumb|The painting Golden Valley Villa by [[Hua Yan, 1732, depicting Shi Chong listening to the music of Lüzhu, Shanghai Museum ]]

Later Zhao emperess

Ming dynasty person CBDB = 118811

Chinese empress

concubine of Emperor Wu of Han