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Wang Qiang,with courtesy name Zhaojun,was born in Zigui County (today's Xingshan County).
 Hometown of Qu Yuan
In the ruling period of Emperor Yuan, the Han Dynasty,she was sent to the court as an imperial concubine.For some reason,she failed to get into His Majesty's good favour.In the Western Han Dynasty,Han Nationality and Hu Nationality had wars very often.In 33 B.C.,Huhanye,chief of the Southern Xiongnu went to Chang'an (Han's Capital) to ask for a marriage to an imperial woman to achieve peace.Zhaojun asked for imperial permission to become Huhenye's wife. When she came to bid His Majesty farewell,however for the first time,the Emperor realised how beautiful she was. After she got to Xiongnu,she had a son named Yituzhiyashi who was regarded as King Gurisui,she became an empress.
Zhaojun married away from her own country for the unity of various nationalities,so she is regauded as a great woman. People sing high praise for her as the envoy of peace.Because of her marriage Hu and Han nationalities got along well with each other for hundred years.Premier Zhou Enlai once praised her as "a figure who played the greatest role in developing the unity of the great one family of the Chinese nationalities."Mr.Dong Biwu also wrote a poem to praise her saying "her marriage to Huhanye should be praised forever."
Since more than two thousand years ago, poems, stories, pictures,novels,plays about Wang Zhaojun have been widely spread.
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