Fàn Lǐ hòulái cíguān jīngshāng, chéngwéi le dāngshí zuì yǒuqián de rén zhīyī.
Fan Li later gave up office to go into trade, and became one of the richest men of his day.
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culture
Trading under the name 陶朱公, Lord Zhu of Tao, he made a fortune three times and gave it away twice, and is worshipped as a civil god of wealth. Legend says he sailed off on the lakes with 西施.
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蠡 reads lǐ in his name and in 蠡县 in Hebei. Elsewhere, as in 以蠡测海 'to measure the sea with a gourd', it is lí.
