Jia Rong is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata names him Jia Rong. The record also has the familiar form Rong'er, which does not replace the title. He is Jia Zhen's son, with fine features and a slender build. This entry records him as a figure of the novel, and the story is set in the dynasty of the novel. The birthplace field holds only a blank Wikidata node identifier and no readable place name, so it is not written here as a place.[1][2]
The purchased rank, and the household
He helps Wang Xifeng make sport of Jia Rui. He began as a student of the Imperial Academy. After his wife Qin Keqing died, Jia Zhen spent a thousand taels to buy him the fifth-rank post of dragon-forbidden commandant. He later married a woman of the Xu family. When Jia Lian secretly took You Erjie, it was Jia Rong who thought of having Jia Lian marry her in secret and house her outside the mansion. In chapter 105, when the Jia house is raided, he too is held.[2]
Basic facts
- Name: Jia Rong[1]
- Father: Jia Zhen[1]
- Setting recorded on this entry: the dynasty of the novel[1]
- Appears in: Dream of the Red Chamber[2]