Bao Linghui

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Bao Linghui (Chinese: 鲍令晖; fl. c. 464) was a Chinese poet during the Southern Dynasties. She came from Donghai, Jiangsu Province, and was the younger sister of poet Bao Zhao. Like her brother, she wrote in a refined style that imitated Han dynasty folk songs and ballads. Her exact birth and death dates are unknown, but she may have died during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Liu Song Dynasty. Her poems appear in New Songs from the Jade Terrace. Seven of her poems survive, all in the boudoir lament genre, about the absence of her lover.