Empress Yin Lihua (陰麗華) (AD 5–64), formally Empress Guanglie (光烈皇后, literally, "the rebuilding and achieving empress") was an empress during Han Dynasty. She was the second empress of her husband Emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu) -- even though she married him as his wife before his first empress, Empress Guo Shengtong, did. She was famed for her beauty and meekness. (Her posthumous name started a trend for the rest of Eastern Han Dynasty, where empresses' posthumous names were formed not just their husbands' posthumous names (as was customary during the preceding Western Han Dynasty) but used part of their husbands' posthumous names along with an additional descriptive character.)
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