Consort Yu


Consort Yu , personal name Yu Miaoyi, also known as Yu the Beauty, was the concubine of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed with Liu Bang , the founder of the Han dynasty, for supremacy over China in the ChuHan Contention .

Consort Yus birth date is unknown and there are two accounts of her origin. The first said she was from Yanji Town in Shuyang County, while the other claimed that she was from Suzhou, but both pointed that she was born in presentday Jiangsu.

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