Wenji (文姬) — "refined daughter." **Cai Wenji (c. 177-c. 250)** was the Han Dynasty poet, calligrapher, and musician. **Kidnapped by the Xiongnu (Huns) during the chaos of the Han collapse, she lived 12 years among them as the wife of a chieftain and bore him two sons** — before being ransomed back to China by warlord Cao Cao, leaving her sons behind. **Her *Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute* and *Poems of Grief and Anger* are among the most haunting works of classical Chinese literature.**
Featured in countless Chinese paintings and the 1959 Cao Yu play.
Wenji reduces to five — the number of Han kidnapped-poet.