Zhang Sengyao, a famed Chinese painter, but of the Southern Liang Dynasty, 502-557, North-South Period, indeed famous for his painted dragon eyes. A century after the Jin.(Morohashi Daikanwa, Zhongwen Dacidian)

Queen LyU (I don't have an umlaut font so must modify the Hanyu Pinyin), first name Zhi (4th tone, arrow/sparrow) was Gao Zu's Queen and ruled on for eight years (187-179 BCE) after Hui Zu's death, regarded in the historical record as a sovereign, Gaohou LyUshi. Invested her nieces as local rulers.

Another Pinyin problem, tones. But doubling the main vowel or adding an h at the end fixes this, and is already officially done to seperate Shaanxi from Shanxi. Here, the last King of the Shang Dynasty was named Zhou in the fourth tone, a notorious name and a different character from that denoting the Zhou (first tone) of Wu Wang, Wen Wang and the Duke of Zhou, all very positive figures traditionally. I therefore set the 'evil' last ruler of Shang apart by the adding the "h" to the name to indicate a fourth tone, "Zhouh".

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