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Zhuo Wenjun, the Woman Who Got Her Man Back With the Beauty of Poems

The poems by Zhuo Wenjun to her husband Sima Xiangru are legendary in Chinese history. Zhuo Wenjun, the daughter of an iron tycoon in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 25), is one of the best-known tales. Her story was recorded in both Shi Ji (Historical Records) by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty ...

Helen London

A pink lotus flower.