Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife)
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Consort Yu, also known as "Yu the Beauty", was the wife of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed with Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, for supremacy over China during the Chu–Han Conten
A portrait of Consort Yu from Baimei Xinyong Tuzhuan (百美新詠圖傳) by Yan Xiyuan
The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell, also known as Farewell My Concubine, is a traditional Peking opera. It was initially performed by Yang Xiaolou and Shang Xiaoyun in 1918 in Beijing. Though usu
Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife)
…plays, films and television series even though not much about Consort Yu was recorded in history. The story was reenacted on stage in the Peking opera The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell, which is also a trope of the Palme d'Or-winning film Farewell, My Concubine. Poets such as Su Shi, He Pu and Yuan Mei have written poems about Consort…
A Peking opera performance of The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell.