The four talented women in ancient China were Cai Wenji, Zhuo Wenjun, Shangguan Waner and Li Qingzhao. They are all famous women in history, who are both virtuous and talented.
Cai Wenji's Cai Yan, Moon Hee, was a writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his father was a great writer Cai Yong. Cai Wenji has extensive knowledge and strong memory, and is good at temperament, literature and calligraphy. She created a five-character autobiographical narrative poem for the first time. After Cai Yan returned to Han Dynasty, he wrote two Poems of Sorrow and Indignation, and eighteen beats of Hu Jia, one of China's top ten famous songs, was also written by Cai Wenji.
Cai Wenji
Zhuo Wenjun, formerly known as Wenhou, was a talented woman in the Western Han Dynasty. She was the daughter of Zhuo Wangsun, a giant iron smelting businessman. She was quite beautiful, second to temperament, and had a good piano skill. The love story with the famous scholar Sima Xiangru became a topic of conversation after dinner. Her works, such as "Poem on a White Head" and "Poem on a Lonely Lang", are famous, among which the well-known phrase "I wish to win one heart, but my white head will not be separated" is her famous sentence. ?
Shangguan Waner
Shangguan Waner, Wan'er, also known as Shangguan Zhaorong, was a female official, poet and imperial concubine in the Tang Dynasty, and was later demoted as a handmaiden because of her grandfather's conviction. When Shangguan Waner was fourteen years old, she was attracted by Wu Zetian because of her intelligence and cleverness. She was recruited into the palace and was in charge of the imperial palace for many years. She was known as the "Women's Prime Minister". When she was in Tang Zhongzong, she was named zhao rong and became the imperial concubine to manage the state affairs.
Li Qingzhao, named Yi 'an Jushi, was a famous poetess in Song Dynasty, a representative figure of graceful and restrained ci school, and was known as "the first talented woman in history". Born in a scholarly family, she lived a carefree life in her early years. After getting married with Zhao Mingcheng, a university student, she devoted herself to the collection and arrangement of calligraphy and painting stones.
Li Qingzhao
In her early years, her ci was cheerful and lively, and in her later years, she expressed her depression on a sad tone. There are many of her representative works, such as Looking for a Slow Voice, Pruning a Plum, Fragrant Lotus Roots and Remnant Jade in Autumn, Summer quatrains and so on.