1. Cai Yan, also known as Wenji, has unknown dates of birth and death. She was born in Chenliuyu (now Qixian County, Kaifeng, Henan) in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
She first married Wei Zhongdao. After her husband died, she returned to her home. Later, due to the invasion of the Huns, Cai Yan was kidnapped by the Xiongnu King Zuoxian, married to the Huns, and gave birth to two sons. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north, redeemed Cai Yan with a large sum of money, and married her to Dong Si.
Cai Yan is also good at literature, music, and calligraphy. "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" contains a volume of "Cai Wenji Collection", but it has been lost. Cai Wenji's works include two "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hujia".
2. Li Qingzhao (March 13, 1084 - May 12, 1155), named Yi Anju, was a Han nationality from Qizhou (now Zhangqiu, Jinan, Shandong).
There are "Collected Works of Yi An" and "Yi An's Ci", which have been lost. Later generations have a compilation of "Shu Yu Ci". Now there is "Li Qingzhao's Collection and Annotations".
3. Zhuo Wenjun (175 BC - 121 BC), formerly known as Wen Hou, was born in Linqiong (now Qionglai, Sichuan) in the Western Han Dynasty. He was originally from the Zhuo family of the Tie family in Handan. A talented woman in the Han Dynasty, one of the four most talented women in ancient China and one of the four most talented women in Shu.
The love story between Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru, a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty, is still talked about.
She also has many excellent works, such as "The White Head Song", in which "I wish to have the person of my heart, and we will never be separated until we grow old together" is a classic line.
4. Shangguan Wan'er, also known as Shangguan Zhaorong, was a female official, poet and imperial concubine in the Tang Dynasty.
The Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty contains thirty-two of his poems. In 710, Linzi King Li Longji launched the Tang Long coup and was killed at the same time as Queen Wei.
5. Ban Zhao (about 45 years to about 117 years), also known as Ji, courtesy name Huiban, Han nationality, was from Fufeng Anling (now northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province). A female historian and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the daughter of the historian Ban Biao and the sister of Ban Gu, she married Cao Shishu from the same county at the age of fourteen, so later generations also called her "Cao Family".
Seven of Ban Zhao's works have survived, including "Ode to the Eastern Expedition" and "Nv's Commandments", which had a great influence on later generations.