human
Yes, said Lady Miao.
gpt
We were both young when she began. Shortly after she was taken into the palace she began the study of books, and partly as a diversion, but largely out of her love for art, she took up the brush. She studied the old masters as they have been reproduced by woodcuts in books, and from the paintings that have been preserved in the palace collection, and soon she exhibited rare talent. I was then a young woman, my brothers were artists, my husband had passed away, and I was ordered to appear in the palace and work with her.
human
You are a Chinese, are you not, Lady Miao?
gpt
Yes, she replied,
human
And did you go into the palace every day?
gpt
When I was young I did. Ten Thousand Years --another method of speaking of the Empress Dowager--