Empress Jia Nanfeng (賈南風) (257–300), nickname Shi (時), of the Jin Dynasty (265–420) was the daughter of Jia Chong and first wife of Emperor Hui and also the granddaughter of Jia Kui. She is commonly seen as a villainous figure in Chinese history, as the person who provoked the War of the Eight Princes, leading to the Wu Hu rebellions and the Jin family's loss of northern and central China.
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