Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24018644-20150228155751/@comment-30005197-20161129042208

Depends on your source. From what I know,she's a character in a poem, and not a real person. And considering the fact that even Chinese debate whether her story was exaggerated and about her surname, it stands to reason  that either she didn't exist or she was based on a real person whose achievements were exaggerated.