A Good Woman: the Merchant Goddess of War

She called Fuhao. This name was engraved on oracle bones more than 3,000 years ago, and was buried under the loess soil of Yin Ruins together with the inscriptions of the 23rd Shang Prince Zhao (posthumous name: Wu Ding). It wasn't until her tomb was opened in 1976 that the first recorded female general in Chinese history was seen again. On the oracle bones from three thousand years ago, she was only recorded as leading troops, offering sacrifices, and fiefdom. But a woman's life is more than that. She went to the battlefield for the first time at the age of fifteen. She followed her husband Wu Ding and led three thousand troops to conquer the earth, and became famous in one battle. For the next seventeen years, she galloped on the battlefield, pacified the Qiang Fang, Huaiyi, and Gui Fang, and led 13,000 people in battle without ever losing. She is the queen and the high priest. She knelt for four days and nights during the severe drought, praying for rain, and carved the names of 630 fallen soldiers in the Zhongyong Temple. She implemented a new policy of "regardless of origin" in employment, promoted Fu Yue from slaves to prime minister, and promoted Que from civilians to general. She is a mother of four children. On her last expedition, she fell from a horse and injured her back. In the spring of the following year, she died at the age of thirty-three. This is a work that makes the female war goddess recorded in oracle bone inscriptions "alive" - ​​restoring the scattered records in the oracle bones into a woman of flesh and blood. She has the iron blood on the battlefield, the courage in the court, the tenderness in her husband's eyes, and the softness in front of her children.