Wei Huicong of the Tang dynasty was the daughter of a high official, yet after she was married to the poet Yuan Zhen, they lived the life of "an impoverished husband and wife for whom everything is sorrow."
唐朝女子韋蕙叢原是尚書之女，嫁給詩人元稹之後，卻過著「貧賤夫妻百事哀」的生活。