A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chao Yün (朝雲, 11th c.)

by Herbert A. Giles

197 Chao Yün 朝雲. The accomplished and beautiful mistress of the poet Su Tung-p'o. She accompanied her lover on his banishment to Hui-chou in Kuangtung, and there died, with these words from the Diamond Sûtra upon her lips: - "Like a dream, like a vision, like a bubble, like a shadow, like dew, like lightning." A tablet to her memory still stands upon the shores of the Western Lake.