Lady Xie was of a noted Kuaiji family and the first wife of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Lady Xie was from Shanyin County (山陰縣), Kuaiji Commandery, which is in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
[1] She was favoured by Sun Quan but later Sun Quan wanted to take his cousin Xu Kun's daughter Lady Xu as his new wife, so he told Lady Xie to lower herself to accept the newcomer.
However, Lady Xie refused and fell out of Sun Quan's favour as a consequence.
He was nominated as a xiaolian (civil service candidate) and later served as the Chief (長) of Jianchang County (建昌縣).