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Xi Zheng (died 278), courtesy name Lingxian, from Yanshi in Henan and originally named Zuan, was a Shu Han official who rose to director of the secretariat and was known for his writing. He drafted the letter of surrender when Shu fell, left his family to accompany Liu Shan to Luoyang, served the Jin as magistrate of Anyang and governor of Baxi, and died in 278.
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Ma Tie (179–211) was a son of Ma Teng, a brother of Ma Chao and a general of the northwest in the Three Kingdoms period. When Ma Chao rose against Cao Cao, Cao Cao put Ma Teng and his family to death, and Ma Tie died at that time.
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Gong Zhi (鞏志) is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a staff officer under Jin Xuan, governor of Wuling. When Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei against Wuling, he urged Jin Xuan to surrender and was refused, so he shot Jin Xuan dead, led the people over to Liu Bei, and was later appointed governor of Wuling.
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Dailai Dongzhu is a fictional figure in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the younger brother of Lady Zhurong, Meng Huo's wife, and a leader of the eight fan. He recommends King Mulu and Wutu Gu, once binds Meng Huo and his wife in a false surrender, and at last submits to Shu Han with them. No personal name is attested, so the title stays.
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Hu Sanniang, in Water Margin, is the daughter of the Hu manor lord. Her nickname is Yizhangqing. Lin Chong captures her. Song Jiang later matches her with Wang Ying, and she ranks fifty-ninth on Liangshan. In the Fang La campaign Zheng Biao kills her with a stone bullet. She is posthumously titled Lady of Huayang commandery.
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Jia Hua is a commander of Sun Quan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At Hefei he and Song Qian guard Sun Quan. At the Sweet Dew Temple he hides three hundred men to kill Liu Bei. Lady Wu orders him beheaded, and Liu Bei's plea saves him.
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Qiutong, in this entry, is Jia Lian's concubine in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata uses that name. The cited encyclopedia page is only a disambiguation and also lists Qiutong as a pen name of Zhang Shizhao. It gives no novel plot.
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Xing Daorong, in chapter 52 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a senior commander of Liu Du, governor of Lingling, and wields a mountain-splitting axe. After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun capture him, he feigns surrender, the trap fails, and Zhao Yun kills him.
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Sun Li (died 250 in this entry), courtesy name Deda, was from Rongcheng in Zhuo commandery. He became minister of works under Cao Wei, with the posthumous title Marquis Jing. The Records of the Three Kingdoms do not give the year of his death.
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Hu Ban, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is the son of the court gentleman Hu Hua. He served Wang Zhi at Xingyang, spared Guan Yu, and later joined Liu Bei as a general of the standard gate. The article says the man who reported Zhang Fei's death is also written Wu Ban. This entry dates Hu Ban's death to 234, which the article does not narrate.
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Li Feng (died 254), courtesy name Anguo, or Xuan'guo in another account, was from Dong county in Fengyi and served Cao Wei as prefect of the palace secretariat. In the second month of 254 Sima Shi killed him with the iron ring of a knife handle. This entry dates his death to 254.
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Jia Lan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Jia Zhu and Li Wan and Jia Zheng's eldest grandson. After Jia Zhu died, Li Wan put her energy into raising him, had him read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and set him on the official path. In the last forty chapters continued by Gao E, he places one hundred thirtieth in the provincial examination.
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Jia Jing, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the grandson of Duke Ning, Jia Yan, and the second son of Jia Daihua. He was a jinshi of the Yimao examination, rank 5b, but left office and title to his son Jia Zhen and practiced alchemy at the Xuanzhen temple. In chapter 63 he dies of elixir poisoning.
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Bihen is a maid of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She draws his bath. The cited article says the name is also written Bilang, so the title stays Bihen. Qingwen says one bath lasted two or three double-hours.
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Fang Yue is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving Wang Kuang, governor of Henei. In chapter 5, before Hulao Pass, he rides out against Lü Bu and is killed in fewer than five bouts.
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Yan Zheng is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving the Yellow Turban leader Zhang Bao. When the city was about to fall, he killed Zhang Bao and surrendered with the head.
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Jia Dairu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a collateral son of the Jia house's second generation and the family tutor. He is Jia Rui's grandfather. His son and daughter-in-law died early, and he kept Jia Rui under strict watch. When Wang Xifeng's trap of longing killed Jia Rui, Jia Dairu wept as if he would not live.
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Gongsun Sheng, in Water Margin, is a Daoist from Jizhou. His Daoist name is Yiqing, his nickname is the Dragon Entering the Clouds, and his star is Tianxianxing. He studied under Luo the Perfected. He joined the seizure of the birthday gift and later kept Liangshan's secrets. After Wang Qing, at Chenqiao post he recalled his teacher's words, returned to Jizhou, and did not join the Fang La campaign.
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Diting, also called Shanting, is a divine beast in Buddhism and Chinese myth, said to be Ksitigarbha's mount. The earliest record is the Account of Daoming's Return from the Dead, in 778. It is described with a tiger's head, a rhinoceros horn, a dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and qilin feet. This entry lists it under Journey to the West. No personal name is attested.
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Qiao Rui (died 197) was a general of Yuan Shu at the end of the Eastern Han, given the rank of grand general. In 197 Cao Cao marched in person, Yuan Shu fled, and Qiao Rui was among the generals left behind and killed. The cited article says he is the same man as the form written with the surname character 乔, so the title stays Qiao Rui.
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Ouguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young male. After the troupe was disbanded she entered Lin Daiyu's rooms. She and Diguan often acted as a married couple, and Diguan died young. Lady Wang later drove the actresses out, and Ouguan and Ruiguan became nuns with Yuanxin at Dizang nunnery.
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Bi Gan, of the Zi clan, from Mei in Yin-Shang, was a son of Wen Ding and an uncle of King Zhou. He rose to junior preceptor. Confucius says he died for his remonstrance. The article also records a cut-out heart, death by drowning, death in the fighting, and stele texts that would put his death more than ten years after King Zhou. This entry gives no birth or death year.
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Kuiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her surname is Wei, and her role was the painted face. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid and renamed Wei Daying, from the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. Nothing further is told.
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Patriarch Subhuti, fully named Patriarch Subhuti of the Xu, is Sun Wukong's teacher in Journey to the West. He teaches the seventy-two transformations, long life, and the cloud somersault, and he forbids Wukong to reveal the school. The article gives several accounts of who he really is, so the title stays.
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Qieguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the old female. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Madam You as a maid. After Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, the article says nothing further is known of her.
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Diguan, also written Yaoguan, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young female. She and Ouguan, who played the young male, often acted as a married couple. Diguan died young, and Ouguan wept as if she would not live.
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Fangguan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing. Her surname is Hua, she is from Gusu, and her role was the principal female. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Baoyu's maid in the Yihong court. After the search of the garden, Lady Wang sent her to leave the household and become a nun with Zhitong of Shuiyue nunnery.
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Qianxue is one of the senior maids of the Yihong court in Dream of the Red Chamber. In chapter 8 the maple-dew tea angers Jia Baoyu, and he drives her out. Extant manuscripts do not mention her again. A commentary says the draft after chapter 80 still had her visit Baoyu in the prison-god temple, and the Guiyou text's chapter 95 has her die saving him.
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Yang Biao (142–225), courtesy name Wenxian, of Huayin in Hongnong, was a minister at the end of the Eastern Han and the fourth grand commandant in the Yang line after Yang Zhen. His son was Yang Xiu. He opposed Dong Zhuo's move of the capital and later refused the commandantship offered by Cao Pi. He died in 225 at eighty-four.
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Fu Jia (209–255), courtesy name Lanshi, of Niyang in Beidi, was a master of writing under Cao Wei. He opposed a rash attack on Wu and urged Sima Shi to lead the army against Guanqiu Jian in person. The Records say he died that year at forty-seven, with the posthumous title Marquis Yuan. The encyclopedia also records the courtesy name Zhaoxian.
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Aiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the comic old man. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Tanchun's maid. When Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, Aiguan's godmother took her away to arrange a marriage.
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Huang Jinying is the maid Xue Baochai brought from home in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her original name was Huang Jinying. Baochai found it awkward and called her Ying'er. She makes knotted cords and flower baskets. When Baochai reads the words on the jade, Ying'er says at once that they match the words on Baochai's necklet.
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The Ziwei Emperor, fully titled the Great Emperor of the Purple Tenuity of the North Pole in the Central Heaven, is one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism and the second son of Doumu. Other accounts identify him with Lord Lao, Boyi Kao, or a reincarnation of Liu Bang, so the title stays. This entry lists him under Journey to the West.
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Lü Weihuang (died 200) was an officer of Yuan Shao at the end of the Eastern Han and a cavalry commander. At Guandu he and Chunyu Qiong escorted the grain. When Cao Cao burned Wuchao, Lü Weihuang was killed.
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Yuan Yi (died 192 in this entry), courtesy name Boye, was a cousin of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. He served as prefect of Chang'an, governor of Shanyang, and inspector of Yang province. After Yuan Shu defeated him, his own men killed him as he fled toward Pei. The article marks 192 with a question mark.
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Shi Jin, in Water Margin, is the young master of Shi manor in Huayin county. His nickname is Nine Dragons and his star name is Tianweixing. He ranks twenty-third on Liangshan. He studied under Wang Jin. After the amnesty, in the Fang La campaign, he died at Yuling Pass in Muzhou under Pang Wanchun's arrow.
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Mu Shun, in chapter 5 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a commander of Zhang Yang. During the campaign against Dong Zhuo he challenges Lü Bu and is speared dead. Chapter 66 has a different man of the same name, a eunuch. This entry is the commander.
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Yang Chou was an officer of Zhang Yang at the end of the Eastern Han. In 198, when Zhang Yang meant to rescue Lü Bu from Cao Cao, Yang Chou killed Zhang Yang and tried to take the troops over to Cao Cao. Sui Gu, another of Zhang Yang's men, killed him first. This entry records his life as 159 to 198. The article gives only the death year.
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Emperor Daizong of Tang (727 – 779), emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
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