This article is about the first empress dowager of the Eastern Han dynasty. For her brother's great-granddaughter who also became empress, see Empress Yin (He).
Yin Lihua (Chinese: 陰麗華; 5–26 February 64 AD[1]), formally Empress Guanglie (光烈皇后), was an empress during the Eastern Han dynasty. She was the second empress of her husband Emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu), even though she was his first wife and married him before his first empress, Guo Shengtong. She was famed for her beauty and meekness. (Her posthumous name started a trend for the rest of the Eastern Han, where empresses' posthumous names were formed not just from their husbands' posthumous names, as was customary during the preceding Western Han, but used part of their husbands' posthumous names along with an additional descriptive character.)
^guimao day of the 1st month of the 7th year of the Yong'ping era, per Emperor Ming's biography in Book of the Later Han. Lady Yin's biography in the same work recorded that she was 60 (by East Asian reckoning) when she died.
