Empress Liu Fang

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Empress Liu Fang (劉芳) was an empress of the Chinese/Xiongnu state Han Zhao. She was Liu Yao's third empress. It was likely that she was ethnically Han, because if she were Xiongnu, Liu Yao would not likely have married her due to the prohibition against endogamy given that they had the same family name.

Liu Fang was the cousin of Liu Yao's second empress, also named Liu. When the older Empress Liu neared her death in 326, she recommended Liu Fang to Liu Yao as his next empress, praising her as beautiful and virtuous. After her death, Liu Yao married Liu Fang and created her empress. Nothing further is said about her in historical records, and it is not known whether she survived to, or survived, Han Zhao's destruction by Later Zhao in 329.

Chinese royalty
Preceded by
Empress Liu		 Empress of Han Zhao
326 – 329 ? 		Dynasty ended
Empress of China (Western)
326 – 329 ? 		Succeeded by
Empress Liu of Later Zhao
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