China’s greatest poet Du Fu took inspiration from the romantic legend of a transgender lady

Part 2 of "The Stone Mirror Tomb – a monument to an ancient king’s love for his transgender wife"

In the previous post, we read 12^th c. and 4^th c. retellings of a romance that took place around 666 -316 BCE. An even older recorded version of the story of the transwoman who married a king of the ancient Shu Kingdom is found in The Epoch of the Kings of Shu[i], written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE).[1]