People · 1491 · – 1521 · historical figure
Zhu Houzhao
Zhu Houzhao (1491–1521) was the tenth emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Wuzong and his era name was Zhengde.
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People · 1507 · – 1567 · historical figure
Zhu Houcong
Zhu Houcong (1507–1567) was the eleventh emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Shizong and his era name was Jiajing.
People · mythological figure
Marshal Heavenly Mugwort
Marshal Heavenly Mugwort is a Taoist protective deity and one of the Four Sages of the North. The cited sources do not give a personal name distinct from this title.
People · 555 · – 639 · historical figure
Fu Yi
Fu Yi (555–639), from Ye in Xiangzhou, was a Sui and Tang astronomer who served as director of the imperial observatory.
People · 1537 · – 1572 · historical figure
Zhu Zaihou
Zhu Zaihou (1537–1572) was the twelfth emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Muzong and his era name was Longqing.
People · 1563 · – 18 August 1620 · historical figure
Zhu Yijun
Zhu Yijun (1563–18 August 1620) was the thirteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Shenzong and his era name was Wanli.
People · 1582 · – 26 September 1620 · historical figure
Zhu Changluo
Zhu Changluo (1582–26 September 1620) was the fourteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Guangzong and his era name was Taichang. He reigned for one month.
People · 23 December 1605 · – 30 September 1627 · historical figure
Zhu Youxiao
Zhu Youxiao (23 December 1605–30 September 1627) was the fifteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty. His temple name was Xizong and his era name was Tianqi.
People · 6 February 1611 · – 25 April 1644 · historical figure
Zhu Youjian
Zhu Youjian (6 February 1611–25 April 1644) was the last emperor of the Ming dynasty. His era name was Chongzhen.
People · historical figure
Meng Jian
Meng Jian, courtesy name Gongwei, was a Cao Wei official from Runan. He rose to inspector of Liang province and general of the eastern campaign.
People · – 251 · historical figure
Sun Zi
Sun Zi (died 251), courtesy name Yanlong, was a Cao Wei official. He served as secretariat director and was later enfeoffed as Marquis of Zhongdu.
People · literary character
Baozhu
Baozhu is Qin Keqing's maid in Dream of the Red Chamber. After Qin Keqing's death she volunteered as an adopted daughter for the funeral and stayed at Iron Threshold Temple.
People · literary character
You Sanjie
You Sanjie is You Erjie's younger sister in Dream of the Red Chamber. After Liu Xianglian broke the betrothal on a rumor, she killed herself with his sword.
People · literary character
You Erjie
You Erjie is You Sanjie's elder sister in Dream of the Red Chamber. Jia Lian secretly married her; Wang Xifeng later brought her home, and she killed herself by swallowing gold.
People · literary character
Cui Jue
Cui Fujun is a north-Chinese folk deity said to judge the underworld. Tang and Song records disagree about his personal name, and one source says it was lost.
People · literary character
Zhang Shang
Zhang Shang is a fictional Jin officer in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The cited sources do not give a different personal name.
People · literary character
Wenguan
Wenguan is one of the twelve singing girls in the Jia household in Dream of the Red Chamber. She plays young male roles. After the troupe broke up Lady Jia kept her, and Lady Wang later sent her out of the Grand View Garden.
People · literary character
Cao Yong
Cao Yong is a fictional officer under Cao Ren in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In 211 he was killed at Weinan by Pang De, a general under Ma Chao.
People · mythological figure
Donghua Dijun
Donghua Dijun is a Taoist deity. Quanzhen Daoism ranks him among the Four Emperors and Two Empresses and first of the Five Patriarchs. The cited article says his personal name was originally unknown.
People · literary character
Liu Wu'er
Liu Wu'er is the daughter of the kitchen servant Mother Liu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She is named for being the fifth child. She was suspected of theft in the poria-frost case and later released.
People · literary character
Mrs. Liu
Mrs. Liu is a maid in the inner kitchen of the Rong mansion in Dream of the Red Chamber, and the mother of Liu Wu'er. She and her daughter were suspected when the rose dew disappeared, then she returned to the kitchen after they were cleared.
People · literary character
Liu Xianglian
Liu Xianglian is a young man of a hereditary family in Dream of the Red Chamber, nicknamed the Cold Gentleman and a friend of Jia Baoyu. He agreed to marry You Sanjie, broke it off after a rumor, and left with a Daoist after she killed herself.
People · literary character
Wu Anguo
Wu Anguo is a fictional officer under Kong Rong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He fights with an iron hammer. Against Lü Bu he lasted more than ten bouts before his wrists were cut off.
People · – 191 · historical figure
Geng Wu
Geng Wu (died 191), courtesy name Wenwei, was a chief clerk under Han Fu at the end of the Eastern Han. He opposed ceding Jizhou to Yuan Shao and was killed when Yuan Shao arrived.
People · mythological figure
Shui'de Xingjun
Shui'de Xingjun, also called the Perfected Lord of Water Virtue, is the Taoist star lord of the water star. One ritual text names him Yinkong Zhaoxia, with Qixia given as a variant.
People · – 225 · literary character
Jinhuan Sanjie
Jinhuan Sanjie (died 225) is a fictional officer of Meng Huo in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from the five southern streams. He was killed by Zhao Yun during the southern campaign.
People · – 1124 · literary character
Wu Yong
Wu Yong (died 1124), courtesy name Xuejiu and nicknamed the Star of Wisdom, is the Liangshan strategist in Water Margin. He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou.
People · literary character
Wei Dingguo
Wei Dingguo is the militia commander of Lingzhou in Water Margin, called the Divine Fire General. He defended Daming, later joined Liangshan, and died in an ambush during the campaign against Fang La.
People · 209 · – 254 · historical figure
Xiahou Xuan
Xiahou Xuan (209–254), courtesy name Taichu, was a leading Cao Wei official and the son of Xiahou Shang. In 254 he was executed after Li Feng's plot to make him regent, and he did not change color at the execution.
People · 177 · – 238 · historical figure
Zhu Huan
Zhu Huan (177–238), courtesy name Xiumu, was a Wu commander from Wu commandery. He defeated Cao Ren at Ruxu in 222 and died in the first year of Chiwu.
People · literary character
Jiao Da
Jiao Da is an old servant of the Ningguo house in Dream of the Red Chamber. He once followed Duke Ning, Jia Yan, on campaign, and in chapter 7 he got drunk and shouted abuse at the household.
People · – 208 · literary character
Xiahou Jie
Xiahou Jie is a commander beside Cao Cao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In chapter 42, at Changban, Zhang Fei's roar frightens him off his horse and he dies. This entry dates his death to 208. Some Ming editions write the name as Xiahou Ba.
People · – 192 · historical figure
Yan Gang
Yan Gang (died 192) was an officer of Gongsun Zan at the end of the Eastern Han and was made inspector of Ji province. At the battle of Jieqiao he led the cavalry vanguard and was killed by Qu Yi on Yuan Shao's side.
People · literary character
Zhen Baoyu
Zhen Baoyu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Zhen Yingjia. He shares Jia Baoyu's name and is one year younger. He does not appear in the first eighty chapters. The cited article also says he later turned to an official career and parted from Jia Baoyu on bad terms.
People · – 197 · historical figure
Qiao Rui
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.
People · literary character
Yan Zheng
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.
People · literary character
Fang Yue
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.
People · literary character
Bihen
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.
People · – 254 · historical figure
Li Feng
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.
People · – 234 · literary character
Hu Ban
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.
People · – 250 · historical figure
Sun Li
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.
People · literary character
Qiutong
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.
People · literary character
Xing Daorong
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.
People · literary character
Hu Sanniang
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.
People · literary character
Dailai Dongzhu
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.
People · literary character
Jia Hua
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.
People · literary character
Mu Shun
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.
People · 159 · – 198 · historical figure
Yang Chou
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.
People · – 192 · historical figure
Yuan Yi
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.
People · – 200 · historical figure
Lü Weihuang
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.