Empress Liu Fang
Empress Liu Fang (劉芳) was an
empress of the
Chinese/
Xiongnu state
Han Zhao. She was
Liu Yao's third empress. It was likely that she was ethnically
Han, because if she were Xiongnu, Liu Yao would not likely have married her due to the prohibition against
endogamy given that they had the same family name.
Liu Fang was the cousin of Liu Yao's
second empress, also named Liu. When the older Empress Liu neared her death in
326, she recommended Liu Fang to Liu Yao as his next empress, praising her as beautiful and virtuous. After her death, Liu Yao married Liu Fang and created her empress. Nothing further is said about her in historical records, and it is not known whether she survived to, or survived, Han Zhao's destruction by
Later Zhao in
329.