Fan Ji
Fan Ji (died 7th century BC) was the queen consort of King Zhuang of Chu. She acted as the political adviser of her spouse, and has been portrayed as a positive role model for women in Chinese history. She was noted for her clever methods of demonstrating her opinions and convincing people to change.
Also recorded as Lady Fan · Fan Shi(Wife of Mi Lv)
Fan Ji
Scanned from "Orientation" vol.32 no.6 (June 2001) page 45 · Public domain
- Born
- Fan Ji was born on 1 January 700 BC.
- Died
- Fan Ji died on 1 January 600 BC.
- Occupation
- poet
- Fields
- poetry
- Languages
- Chinese
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Fan Ji (died 7th century BC) was the queen consort of King Zhuang of Chu. She acted as the political adviser of her spouse, and has been portrayed as a positive role model for women in Chinese history. She was noted for her clever methods of demonstrating her opinions and convincing people to change.
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In one famous story, she felt her husband was hunting too much, so she stopped eating meat, as a subtle reproach to him. He noted her actions, and ceased his inappropriate hunting.
The recorded working language is Chinese. The field of work recorded is poetry.
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