Madame Huarui

Madame Huarui
An illustration from a Chinese book named as 《百美新詠圖傳》
Chinese	花蕊夫人
Literal meaning	Lady Flower Bud
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huāruǐ Fūrén Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Faa1-jeoi5 Fu1-jan4

Consort Xu (徐惠妃) (c. 940 – 976) was a concubine of Later Shu's emperor Meng Chang during imperial China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. More commonly known as Madame Huarui (花蕊夫人), she was also a notable poet.

When Emperor Taizu of Song defeated Meng Cheng, Madame Huarui was captured. Emperor Taizu had heard of her fame as a poet and asked her to compose a poem for him. Madame Huarui immediately sang (as translated by Anthony C. Yu):^[1][2]

References

Sources

• (Chinese) Quan Tangshi (全唐詩) [Complete Tang Poems]. 1705. 
• Chang, Kang-i Sun; Saussy, Haun, eds. (1999). Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-804-73231-0. 
• Rexroth, Kenneth; Chung Ling (1972). The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 
• "Huarui Furen", Mountain Songs, last accessed June 8, 2007

External links

• Narrating the Death of the Shu State by Huarui Furen