Wáng Fú qùshì shí nián hòu, Sū Shì zài mèng lǐ yòu jiàndào le tā.
Ten years after Wang Fu died, Su Shi saw her again in a dream.
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history
Like Su Shi she came from 眉州, and she married him in 1054 when she was about fifteen. He wrote that she would stand behind a screen when he talked with visitors and afterwards tell him whom not to trust. She died in the capital in 1065, and her cousin 王闰之 later became his second wife.
culture
His ci for her, 《江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦》, written in 1075, opens 十年生死两茫茫 and remains one of the best-loved poems of mourning in Chinese.
