Xia Ji was a Chinese noblewoman of the Spring and Autumn period known for her exceptional beauty, and who reportedly had multiple marriages in her lifetime.
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Xia Ji, 1870 edition Baimei xinyong tuzhuan (百美新詠圖傳, New Illustrated Poems about 100 Beautiful Women)
Duke Ling of Chen (陳靈公), Kong Ning (孔寧), Xia Zhengshu (夏徵舒), and Yi Xingfu (儀行父), 1842 Xinkan gu lienu zhuan (新刊古列女傳, New Edition of Ancient Biographies of Exemplary Women)
Xia Zhengshu assassinating Duke Ling of Chen in 599 BCE, 1919 Cibu congkan edition of Liu Xiang's Lienu zhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Women)In their orbit 3
About this person
Xia Ji was a Chinese noblewoman of the Spring and Autumn period known for her exceptional beauty, and who reportedly had multiple marriages in her lifetime. Her biography provided the basis for the late Ming dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi, which depicts Xia Ji as a sexual vampire who supposedly achieved eternal youth and transcendency through esoteric sexual techniques designed to suck the vitality from her male partners.
Dates
Born 650 BC
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6 languages
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