Keelung Temporary Post Office (TPO)Name: Beauties of Ancient China - Xi Shi
TPO Open Date/Time: 2006 November 18th(95.11.18) (9:00-12:00)
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Xi Shi (西施, Pinyin: Xī Shī, c. 506 BC – ?) was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived during the end of Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient State of Yue.
Xi Shi's beauty was said to be so extreme that while leaning over a balcony to look at the fish in the pond, the fish would be so dazzled that they forgot to swim and gradually sunk away from the surface. (Thus the idiom 沉魚落雁, 闭月羞花 which is used to compliment someone's beauty.)
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