Historically, Yin Lihua’s ending was death from illness.

Historically speaking, Yin Lihua was famous for her beauty. Before Liu Xiu became successful, he admired her beauty very much. He once sighed: "Yin Lihua deserves to be married." In the last years of Xin Mang, the world was in chaos, and Liu Xiu He also raised troops in his hometown. After the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu married Yin Lihua in Wancheng. After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yin Lihua was granted the title of noble.

In the 17th year of Jianwu's reign, Queen Guo Shengtong was deposed and Liu Xiu was granted the title of Queen Yin Lihua. After Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty came to the throne, he respected Yin Lihua as the empress dowager, and she reigned for twenty-four years. In the first month of the seventh year of Yongping, Yin Lihua passed away at the age of sixty. In February of the same year, he was buried in Yuanling with Liu Xiu, and his posthumous title was "Guanglie".

Story:

In the last years of Xinmang, Liu Xiu, who was studying at the Imperial College of Chang'an in the capital, saw the grand scene of Zhijinwu leading his army on a trip. The beauty of the young lady of the Yin family, Yin Lihua, was admired very much, so she said with emotion: To be an official, you must be an official with the magnificence of Zhi Jinwu, and to marry a wife, you must marry a wife as beautiful as the young lady of the Yin family.

Liu Xiu's sigh has become a famous saying throughout the ages, triggering the cries of many "heroes". When Zhu Wen, the founding emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty, was not yet prosperous, he heard that Zhang Hui, the daughter of the governor of Songzhou, was beautiful, and he let out the "Sigh of Lihua". The latter two eventually got married, and Zhang Hui helped Zhu Wen destroy Tang Jianliang, achieving a great cause and becoming a good story in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.