Chinese Four Ancient Beauties Stunning Medal Commemorative Coin - Diaochan - Chinese History Token - China Souvenirs -

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Location    People's Republic of China 
Type    Souvenir medallions
Composition    Copper-nickel
Weight    18 g
Diameter    39 mm
Shape    Round
Technique    Milled

Diaochan was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. Although based on a minor historical personage, she is mostly a fictional character. She is best known for her role in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticizes the events in the late Eastern Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. In the novel, she has a romance with the warrior Lü Bu and causes him to betray and kill his foster father, the tyrannical warlord Dong Zhuo. She was praised in tales as a woman of unrivaled beauty who did what no other hero in China was able to accomplish: put an end to Dong Zhuo's regime of terror and the eventual end of Lü Bu; triggering the events that would lead to the formation of the Three Kingdoms: Cao Wei, Eastern Wu, and Shu Han.