Cao'e Stele

{{Short description|Stele made for Cao E}}

File:Cao_E_Stele_in_Caoe_Temple_02_2014-08.JPG from the year 1093, made by Cai Bian (蔡卞). The monument is 2.1 meters high and 1 meter wide]]

During the Eastern Han dynasty in the year 143, Cao E drowned at the age of 13 in the Shun River while trying to save her father from drowning. In the year 151, a temple and a stele was made for her to honor Cao E. The original stele was lost over time but in the year 1093 (Northern Song dynasty), Cai Bian (蔡卞) made a replacement stele. This stele is 2.1 metres high and 1 metre wide and is entitled: "The stele of Cao E, the filial piety daughter" and has become a historical monument. The stele is placed in the Cao'e Temple in the Shangyu District, Shaoxing in the northeast of Zhejiang Province in China.{{cite web|url=http://www.sx.gov.cn/col/col1407/index.html|title=Translation|access-date=2021-12-03|archive-date=2015-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414080049/http://www.sx.gov.cn/col/col1407/index.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}{{cite web|url=https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20150414080049/http://www.sx.gov.cn/col/col1407/index.html?_x_tr_sl=zh-TW&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=nl&_x_tr_pto=sc|title=Translation|date=14 April 2015 }}{{cite journal|author=Fang Ailong|date=2018|url=https://www.china-journal.net/home/qikan/papershow.html?id=6409649|title=蔡卞行书上虞孝女曹娥碑|language=zh|publisher=Hangzhou Normal University (Social Science Edition)|doi=10.3969/j.issn.1674-2338.2018.01.020}}

The stele's text was commissioned by {{ill|Du Shang|zh|度尚}}. It was written by Handan Chun after {{ill|Wei Lang (Three Kingdoms)|lt=Wei Lang|zh|魏朗}} failed complete it.{{Cite book |last=Rafe |first=De Crespigny |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/875683793 |title=A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) |date=2007 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-15605-0 |pages=306 |oclc=875683793}}