# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cai-yan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:05:05.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cai-yan"
name: "Cai Yan"
slug: "cai-yan"
description: "Cai Yan, courtesy name Wenji, was a Chinese composer, poet, and writer who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. She was a daughter of Cai Yong. Her courtesy name was originally Zhaoji, but was changed to Wenji during the Jin dynasty to avoid naming taboo because the Chinese character for zhao in her courtesy name is the same as that in the name of Sima Zhao, the father of the Jin dynasty's founding emperor, Sima Yan. She spent part of her life as the concubine of a powerful Xiongnu leader until 207, when the warlord Cao Cao, who controlled the Han central government in the final years of the Eastern Han dynasty, paid a heavy ransom to bring her back to Han territory."
tagline: "3rd century Chinese poet and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E7%95%AB%E9%BA%97%E7%8F%A0%E8%90%83%E7%A7%80_Gathering_Gems_of_Beauty_(%E6%BC%A2%E8%94%A1%E6%96%87%E5%A7%AC)_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "177"
deathDate: "249"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.1
  momentum:             2.92063492063492
  historical:           20.95786
  currentAttention:     16.2257495590829
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/888707d3-43f1-4443-969c-a64f31e9913b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "تساي يان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "تساى يان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan"
    title: "Cai Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Jan"
    title: "Cai Jan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan"
    title: "Cai Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%90%B0"
    title: "蔡琰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B1%84%EC%97%BC"
    title: "채염"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan"
    title: "Cai Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan_Bei"
    title: "Cai Yan Bei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Цай Вэньцзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Wenji"
    title: "Cai Wenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan"
    title: "Cai Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%8B%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A1"
    title: "ซัวเอี๋ยม"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B7%D1%96"
    title: "Цай Веньцзі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Yan"
    title: "Cai Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A1i_Di%E1%BB%85m"
    title: "Thái Diễm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%90%B0"
    title: "蔡琰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%90%B0"
    title: "蔡琰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump