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Together with Hua Mulan, Liang Hongyu and He Yufeng, Qin Liangyu is one of the most well-known female warriors and heroines in China. [ 6 ] In the Twenty-Four Histories , Qin Liangyu was also the only woman whose biography was listed among the biographies of court officials and generals.
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-75933-7. OCLC 681617682. (The Woman Warrior at the Internet Archive, available only to patrons with print disabilities.) Kwa, Shiamin; Idema, Wilt L. (2010). Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend with Related Texts.
Ng Mui (Chinese: t 伍枚, p Wú Méi; Cantonese: Ng 5 Mui 4) is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders—survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty. According to legend she is said to have been a master of various martial arts including the Shaolin martial arts , the Wudang martial arts , Ng Ying Kung Fu ...
Liang Hongyu was a Chinese general of the Song Dynasty. [1] She became famous during the Jin–Song wars against the Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty. Her real given name was lost in time. She was simply referenced in the official Chinese history books as "Lady Liang" (梁氏).
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
Lady Triệu (Vietnamese: Bà Triệu, [ɓàː t͡ɕiə̂ˀu], Chữ Nôm: 婆趙, died 248 CE) or Triệu Ẩu ([t͡ɕiə̂ˀu ʔə̂u], Chữ Hán: 趙嫗) was a female warrior in 3rd century Vietnam who managed, for a time, to resist the rule of the Chinese Eastern Wu dynasty.
Pages in category "Women in ancient Chinese warfare" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.