{ "contentStorage": "postgres", "title": "Concubine Zhao", "description": "Concubine Zhao, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is Jia Zheng's concubine and the birth mother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan. She was born a household slave. Jealous that Baoyu was favored over Jia Huan, she has Ma Daopo curse Xifeng and Baoyu. She also quarrels with Tanchun over the funeral silver for her brother Zhao Guoji and beats Fangguan in public. The sources give no personal name.", "url": "/en/people/concubine-zhao.html", "entity": { "id": "person_cn_q10540116", "type": "person", "title": "Concubine Zhao", "slug": "concubine-zhao", "aliases": [ "赵姨娘" ], "summary": "Concubine Zhao, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is Jia Zheng's concubine and the birth mother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan. She was born a household slave. Jealous that Baoyu was favored over Jia Huan, she has Ma Daopo curse Xifeng and Baoyu. She also quarrels with Tanchun over the funeral silver for her brother Zhao Guoji and beats Fangguan in public. The sources give no personal name.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature", "category-people", "category-fictional-characters" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics", "tag-four-great-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10540116", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10540116" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "赵姨娘（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%B5%E5%A7%A8%E5%A8%98" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00", "updatedAt": "2026-10-29T17:20:23+08:00", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 7, "body": "Concubine Zhao is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata names her Concubine Zhao. The record also has the form Aunt Zhao. There is a surname and the title of concubine, and no personal name, so the heading stays Concubine Zhao. She is the concubine of Jia Zheng, the second master of the Rongguo house, and the birth mother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan. This entry records her as a figure of the novel, and the story is set in the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position\n\nJia Zheng's wife is Lady Wang. His concubines are Concubine Zhao and Concubine Zhou. The article says she is shown speaking and acting in only three or four places, and is mentioned from the side in only four or five. She and Concubine Zhou are similar in station and age and opposite in temper. Zhou accepts her lot. Zhao will not, and she keeps making trouble. Researchers put the difference down to Zhou having no children, while Zhao has children and resists the gap between the wife's line and the concubine's. Zhao was born a household slave, the daughter of a page and a maid who had been released. She was young and beautiful, and so was taken as a concubine. Her speech is coarse, she likes to stir trouble, and the household does not respect her. Even with a son and a daughter she does not receive a master's treatment. She is half master and half slave, and in practice she stands below the senior maids and the ranking servants. She is at odds with Lady Wang and Wang Xifeng, and the Lady Dowager has scolded her before everyone. Her daughter Jia Tanchun is hostile and, by the rule of wife and concubine, will not admit Zhao's brother as her own uncle.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Several episodes\n\nIn chapter 25, jealous that Jia Baoyu is favored over Jia Huan, she has the Daoist woman Ma curse Xifeng and Baoyu by witchcraft. In chapter 55, after her brother Zhao Guoji dies, the funeral silver from the Jia house is less than Xiren's. She quarrels with her daughter Tanchun, who is then managing the household. In chapter 60 the actress Fangguan gives Jia Huan jasmine powder and calls it rose nitre. When Zhao learns of it she abuses Fangguan in public and beats her. In chapter 72 the servant wife of Lai Wang wants Caixia as a daughter-in-law, and Caixia asks Zhao for help. Zhao proposes to Jia Zheng that Caixia become Jia Huan's concubine. Jia Zheng does not agree. Someone breaks off their talk and then tells Baoyu. In chapter 75, when shares are collected for Wang Xifeng's birthday, Xifeng wants Concubine Zhou and Concubine Zhao called in to enjoy it. Madam You asks why these two bitter gourds should be dragged in. Ping'er thinks Zhao is muddled, but tells the others not to blame her whenever something happens.[^zhwiki]\n\n## What the article records as judgment\n\nQing commentators mostly call her foolishly vicious, stupidly vicious, or dully vicious. Zhiyan zhai calls her foolishly vicious. Jiang Qi's verse makes her dull in substance and busy spreading slander, counts an undutiful daughter as a piece of luck, and complains that her son is too much like her. Some later researchers keep the condemnation. Others call her a harmed villain inside a marriage of one wife and several concubines, and one of the concubines who shows some resistance. Others, from what the book implies, say her relations with Jia Zheng seem always decent, and that by the Jia rule for taking concubines she must once have been an outstanding slave girl, handsome and capable when young. The article also sets her beside Qingwen by Jia Baoyu's saying that women pass from precious pearl to dead pearl to fish eye. These are judgments. They do not supply another name.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Concubine Zhao[^wikidata]\n- Role: concubine of Jia Zheng, birth mother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the dynasty of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/concubine-zhao.html", "lang": "en", "sourceLang": "zh", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, "entities": null, "tags": [ { "id": "tag-fictional-character", "slug": "fictional-character", "name": "Fictional character", "description": "Fictional or literary characters from classic works.", "names": { "ar": "شخصية أدبية", "de": "Literarische Figur", "en": "Fictional character", "es": "Personaje literario", "fr": "Personnage littéraire", "hi": "साहित्यिक पात्र", "id": "Tokoh sastra", "it": "Personaggio letterario", "ja": 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