Lady Sun, known as Sun Shangxiang in Chinese opera and contemporary culture, was a noble lady in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. She was a daughter of Sun Jian and younger sister of the warlords Sun Ce and Sun Quan, who laid the foundation for the state of Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms. She is often depicted as a tomboy, as she received extensive martial arts training and her maidservants were armed with weapons, which was odd for her time.
She was wed to the warlord Liu Bei in 209 as his third wife, supposedly to strengthen an alliance between Liu and Sun Quan. Two years later, she returned to Sun Quan's domain when Liu left Jing Province to attack the warlord Liu Zhang in Yi Province.
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