page_title: Xiahou Lingnu
hierarchical_section_title: Xiahou Lingnu
caption_attribution_description: English: The Wife Of Cao Wenshu
context_page_description: Xiahou Lingnu was a Chinese noble lady, member of the aristocrat Xiahou clan during the Three Kingdoms period. Alongside her family, she served her entire life the state of Cao Wei, a major faction in Three Kingdoms era. She is best known for her role in events before the Incident at the Gaoping Tombs; she remained loyal to the Cao Wei and protested her family's wishes to remarry and joins Sima Yi's coup d'état against Cao Shuang, cutting off one of her facial organs each time she was asked. Her actions were admired by her potential rival, Sima Yi, who gave her the role to continue the legacy of the Cao lineage.
  The most notable information about her comes from Huangfu Mi's Biographies of Exemplary Women, which was supposed to be an instructional text for confucian women. Due to her heroic act of remaining loyal to the Cao family even when them was in disgrace, she was immortalized as one of the most memorable acts of loyalty performed by a woman in Chinese history.
context_section_description: Xiahou Lingnu (夏侯令女) was a Chinese noble lady, member of the aristocrat Xiahou clan during the Three Kingdoms period. Alongside her family, she served her entire life the state of Cao Wei, a major faction in Three Kingdoms era. She is best known for her role in events before the Incident at the Gaoping Tombs; she remained loyal to the Cao Wei and protested her family's wishes to remarry and joins Sima Yi's coup d'état against Cao Shuang, cutting off one of her facial organs each time she was asked. Her actions were admired by her potential rival, Sima Yi, who gave her the role to continue the legacy of the Cao lineage.
  The most notable information about her comes from Huangfu Mi's Biographies of Exemplary Women (列女傳, Lienü Zhuan), which was supposed to be an instructional text for confucian women. Due to her heroic act of remaining loyal to the Cao family even when them was in disgrace, she was immortalized as one of the most memorable acts of loyalty performed by a woman in Chinese history.
caption: Portrait of Xiahou Lingnu
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