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style of poetry. However, there is a certain historical doubt about the attribution of this song to her, especially since it is not mentioned in her grand-nephew Ban Gu's biography of her. The poems attributed to her, or written in her persona, have remained in circulation in the many centuries after
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Consort Ban declining to ride with
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