A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chang-t'ai Liu
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110 Chang-t'ai Liu 章臺柳. 8th cent A.D. The name given to the wife (née Liu) of Han Hung the poet, from the place of her birth, near Ch'ang-an in Shensi. Separated from him during the troublous period of A.D. 756, she sought refuge in a nunnery. She was subsequently taken as wife by a Tartar chieftain, but through the intervention of the Emperor she was ultimately restored to her husband.