Editing Fan Li (section)

==Biography==
Along with [[King Goujian of Yue]], Fan Li was once a hostage of the state of [[Wu (state)|Wu]]. After three years of captivity the two of them returned to Yue where Fan Li helped Goujian carry out a host of reforms to streamline the administration of the Yue state. In 473 BCE, Yue was finally able to destroy the state of Wu. After the victory, Fan resigned and renamed himself Tao Zhu Gong ({{zh|c={{linktext|陶|朱|公}}|p=Táo Zhū Gōng}}). After his departure, he was said to have written a letter to [[Wen Zhong]] from [[Qi (state)|Qi]], advising Wen Zhong to leave Goujian's service.  Wen took notice of the advice in the letter and later was able to escape to Qi, living his remaining days there.

After retiring from his ministerial post he lived with [[Xi Shi]], one of the renowned [[Four Beauties]] of ancient China, on a fishing boat, roaming the misty wilderness of Lake Tai in the style of the [[Taoist immortal]]s of old. In his later years, he became a legend for his success in business, and was posthumously worshipped as a god of money, or the [[God of Wealth]] ([[Cai Shen]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=God of Wealth |url=https://www.chinatownology.com/God_of_wealth.html |website=www.chinatownology.com}}</ref>

Fan Li was an ancestor of [[Fan Zhongyan]], a famous [[Grand councilor|chancellor]] and historical figure from the [[Song dynasty]].<ref name="Yen 2013 p. 262">{{cite book | last=Yen | first=L.D.H.C.H. | title=Ethnic Chinese Business in Asia: History, Culture and Business Enterprise | publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company | year=2013 | isbn=978-981-4578-44-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIgGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262 | access-date=2017-06-25 | page=262}}</ref>