postgres Cai Zhong is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a general of the Jing province army, a cousin of Cai Mao and the brother of Cai He, who went over to Cao Cao with Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. Wikidata records 208 as his death year within the work. After Cai Mao was wrongly killed by Cao Cao, he and his brother were sent into Eastern Wu as spies, were seen through by Zhou Yu, and he was cut down on the night the battle of Red Cliffs began, after Gan Ning led him into Cao's camp.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] /en/people/cai-zhong/relation.html person_cn_q1153187 person cai-zhong 蔡中

Cai Zhong is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a general of the Jing province army, a cousin of Cai Mao and the brother of Cai He, who went over to Cao Cao with Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. Wikidata records 208 as his death year within the work. After Cai Mao was wrongly killed by Cao Cao, he and his brother were sent into Eastern Wu as spies, were seen through by Zhou Yu, and he was cut down on the night the battle of Red Cliffs began, after Gan Ning led him into Cao's camp.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1153187 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E4%B8%AD 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:23:38+08:00 user:admin 7 Cai Zhong is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled 蔡中, so the heading stays as it is. Wikidata describes him as a military officer of the Jing province army, gives the dynasty of the work's setting as Han, and records his death in 208.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## Identity Chinese Wikipedia says that in the novel he and his brother Cai He are both cousins of Cai Mao, and that they went over to Cao Cao together with Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.[^zhwiki] ## In the novel According to Chinese Wikipedia's summary, after Cai Mao was wrongly killed by Cao Cao, Cai Zhong and his brother Cai He were sent to Eastern Wu by Cao Cao as spies, but Zhou Yu, the commander in chief of Wu, saw through them and turned the scheme back on Cao Cao, making him believe that Huang Gai and Gan Ning wanted to surrender to the Cao army. On the night the battle of Red Cliffs began, Gan Ning led Cai Zhong deep into the Cao camp, and he was then cut down from his horse. The article's reference is the novel itself, and it lists Cai Mao under see also.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Description: fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, military officer of the Jing province army[^wikidata] - Dynasty or state of the work's setting: Han[^wikidata] - Death: 208 (within the work)[^wikidata] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]] /people/cai-zhong.html en zh zh en 208 208 Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms true literary character relation_cnworks_depicts_q70806_q1153187 work_cn_q70806 depicts person_cn_q1153187 work_cn_q70806 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70806 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms /en/works/romance-three-kingdoms.html true depicts Related works relation_cnworks_depicts_q70806_q1153187 work_cn_q70806 depicts person_cn_q1153187 work_cn_q70806 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70806 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms /en/works/romance-three-kingdoms.html true en zh en death_date Death 208 is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category literary character disambiguation Disambiguation Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 50 1 1 1