Fan Ji

{{Expand Chinese|樊姬|date=December 2020|topic=bio}}

Fan Ji ({{zh|c=樊姬}}; died 7th century BC) was the queen consort of King Zhuang of Chu.Dennis R. Schilling, Jianfei Kralle (Hrsg.): Die Frau im alten China, Bild und Wirklichkeit: Studien zu den Quellen der Zhou- und Han-Zeit (= Münchener ostasiatische Studien. Band 77). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, {{ISBN|3-515-07751-0}}, ISSN 0170-3668{{Cite journal |last=Cheng |first=Wen-chien |date=2017-01-29 |title=The Pictorial Portrayal of Women and Didactic Messages in the Han and Six Dynasties |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/nanu/19/2/article-p155_1.xml |journal=NAN NÜ |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=155–212 |doi=10.1163/15685268-00192P01 |issn=1387-6805|url-access=subscription }}

She acted as the political adviser of her spouse, and has been portrayed as a positive role model for women in Chinese history. She was noted for her clever methods of demonstrating her opinions and convincing people to change.{{Cite journal |last=Schaab-Hanke |first=Dorothee |date=September 2022 |title=CAI YONG'S 蔡邕 READING OF THE ODES, AS SEEN FROM HIS QINCAO 琴操 AND HIS "QINGYI FU" 青衣賦 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-china/article/abs/cai-yongs-reading-of-the-odes-as-seen-from-his-qincao-and-his-qingyi-fu/A4A0816E265E81860EF0E6351C232D5E |journal=Early China |language=en |volume=45 |pages=239–268 |doi=10.1017/eac.2022.17 |s2cid=252988507 |issn=0362-5028|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last=Davis |first=Timothy M. |title=3 Mortuary Epigraphy Moves Underground |date=2015-01-01 |work=Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China |pages=152–198 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004306424/B9789004306424_005.xml |access-date=2024-01-21 |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-90-04-30642-4}} In one famous story, she felt her husband was hunting too much, so she stopped eating meat, as a subtle reproach to him. He noted her actions, and ceased his inappropriate hunting.{{Cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Ping |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne51BgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Fan+Ji%22+%22zhuang+of+chu%22&pg=PA79 |title=Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry |last2=Williams |first2=Nicholas Morrow |date=2015-01-01 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |isbn=978-988-8139-26-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Raphals |first1=Lisa Ann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaP6lLd0dwAC&dq=%22Fan+Ji%22+%22zhuang+of+chu%22&pg=PR13 |title=Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China |last2=Raphals |first2=Professor Lisa |date=1998-01-01 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-3855-8 |language=en}}