1. Lady Sun was a daughter of the warlord Sun Jian, and her older brothers were the warlords Sun Ce and Sun Quan, who founded the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period.
13 Facts About Lady Sun
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Lady Sun was the daughter of Sun Jian; her mother's identity is not recorded.
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Lady Sun was bold and extremely fierce in character, with a personality reminiscent of her elder brothers.
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Lady Sun had more than a hundred female servants who carried swords and stood guard outside her room.
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Lady Sun saw herself as the sister of a powerful warlord, and not only acted in an arrogant, unbridled manner, but allowed her bodyguards and personal staff to behave lawlessly in Jing Province.
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Around 211, Liu Bei left Jing Province on a campaign to attack the warlord Liu Zhang in Yi Province while Lady Sun remained behind in Jing Province.
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When Lady Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei had travelled to Yi Province, he sent a ship to fetch her.
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Lady Sun attempted to bring Liu Bei's son Liu Shan with her to Sun Quan's territory.
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Lady Sun appears as a character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticizes the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period.
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Lady Sun's name was Sun Ren in the novel, which depicts her as a fiery, determined woman skilled in martial arts.
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Lady Sun is a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series.
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Lady Sun appears in Warriors Orochi, a crossover between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors.
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Lady Sun is referred to as "Sun Shang Xiang" in the first seven installments of the series, and as "Sun Shangxiang" from the eighth installment onwards.