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Xu Hui is one of China's outstanding early female poets, and is believed to have written around one thousand poems, but only five survive today, including the well-known "Regret in
Changmen Palace" on the popular Tang dynasty topic of the neglected or abandoned lady. The poem refers to a specific
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Xu Hui was the child prodigy daughter of Xu Xiaode, from
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