Cao Zhenxiu

Cao Zhenxiu (; 1762–?) was a Chinese author, poet, calligrapher, and painter.

She was the daughter of painter Cai Rui. In 1782, she married the official, poet, and calligrapher Wang Qisun.

Much of her work had a particular focus on women, including her great poetic and historical work, which featured 16 poems, each of which described an 'exemplary woman'. Each poem was accompanied by a painting, done by the artist Gai Qi. Although works describing exemplary women were an ancient genre, Cao Zhenxiu was unique in her choices of what qualified a woman as exemplary. Instead of the traditional odes to women who showed chastity and filial piety, Cao Zhenxiu wrote about scholars, artists, calligraphers, poets, and warriors.