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缇萦
tí​yíng

Ti Ying

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缇萦 緹縈 tí​yíng
Ti Ying
Tiying (c. 2nd century BCE), daughter of the physician Chunyu Yi, famous for her filial piety during the Western Han dynasty; she petitioned Emperor Wen to save her father from corporal punishment by offering herself as a government slave, which led to the abolition of such punishments

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