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Chen Yuanyuan, originally named Xing Yuan, was a well-known beauty of Suzhou in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. She was a good singer and dancer. At first she was a singsong girl of Tian Wan, and then married to Wu Sangui as his concubine. When Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army captured Beijing, his subordinate named Liu Zongmin ravished Chen Yuanyuan. Later Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Army, who then captured Beijing. Chen Yuanyuan came back to Wu Sangui again. In her late years Chen Yuanyuan became a Taoist nun who then renamed herself Jijing, style name Yu'an. |
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