postgres Jia Xichun is the youngest of the four Jia sisters in Dream of the Red Chamber, the youngest daughter of Jia Jing of the Ningguo house and a full sister of Jia Zhen, raised in the Rongguo house at the side of the Lady Dowager. Aloof and cold in temper, she represents the Buddhist idea of emptiness in the book, and by her fate verse she becomes a nun after the Jia house is raided. /en/people/jia-xichun/relation.html person_cn_q10761740 person jia-xichun 贾惜春

Jia Xichun is the youngest of the four Jia sisters in Dream of the Red Chamber, the youngest daughter of Jia Jing of the Ningguo house and a full sister of Jia Zhen, raised in the Rongguo house at the side of the Lady Dowager. Aloof and cold in temper, she represents the Buddhist idea of emptiness in the book, and by her fate verse she becomes a nun after the Jia house is raided.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10761740 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%88%E6%83%9C%E6%98%A5 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:21:29+08:00 user:admin 7 Jia Xichun is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Jia Xichun, and it is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. Wikidata records her as a character of the novel, set in the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## Position and character According to the Chinese Wikipedia article, she is the youngest of the four Jia sisters and the only one from the Ningguo house, the youngest daughter of Jia Jing and a full sister of Jia Zhen, thirty years younger than he. Her mother died early and she was raised in the Rongguo house beside the Lady Dowager. She later lives in Liaofeng Studio, also called Nuanxiang Dock, near the Lotus Fragrance Pavilion in the Grand View Garden, and her alias in the Begonia Poetry Club is Ouxie. The article calls her solitary and cold and the character in the book who represents the Buddhist idea of emptiness. By the Twelve Beauties of Jinling verses she becomes a nun after the Jia house is raided and lives in want, while in the last forty chapters by Gao E she practices at home in comfort.[^zhwiki] ## A few episodes The article records that her most important act in the garden is to paint the garden at the Lady Dowager's request during Granny Liu's visit, the so-called Grand View Garden picture, though the book does not say whether it was finished. It adds that some scholars hold Xichun was originally a figure of the Rongguo house who was moved to the Ningguo house to fit her into the whole book. In chapter 7 she is said to associate often with the little nun Zhineng, and jokes that if she shaved her head and became a nun, there would be nowhere to wear the palace flowers Zhou Rui's wife brought. Around chapter 74, in the search of the garden, the chief maids of Yingchun and Xichun are driven out. Yingchun weeps and sends keepsakes to say goodbye, while Xichun says to take the maid away, to beat, kill or sell her, she does not care. After Wang Xifeng finds out and is ready to forgive Ruhua, Xichun again refuses and tells Madam You that she is clear-headed and so cannot keep Ruhua. The article explains that the Ningguo house kept an unclean household, she wanted to keep clear of it, and she feared being drawn into gossip, so when Ruhua got into trouble she cut her loose.[^zhwiki] ## Verse, song and riddle The article gives her fate verse, in which she sees through the spring scenery of the three sisters, changes into a black robe, and lies alone by a green lamp and an old Buddha, a lady of a noble house. It also lists the song Awakening from Vain Flowers, in which she sees through the three springs and seeks the cool, quiet heaven. Her lantern riddle has the sea lamp as its answer. Her maids include Ruhua, Caiping and Cai'er.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Name: Jia Xichun, alias Ouxie, also called the Fourth Young Lady[^wikidata][^zhwiki] - Relations: daughter of Jia Jing, full sister of Jia Zhen[^zhwiki] - Setting recorded on this entry: the dynasty of the novel[^wikidata] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]][^zhwiki] /people/jia-xichun.html en zh zh en Character in Dream of the Red Chamber true literary character relation_cnworks_depicts_q8265_q10761740 work_cn_q8265 depicts person_cn_q10761740 work_cn_q8265 wikidata Related works work_cn_q8265 Dream of the Red Chamber /en/works/dream-red-chamber.html true work_cn_q8265 Dream of the Red Chamber /en/works/dream-red-chamber.html work depicts Related works relation_cnworks_depicts_q8265_q10761740 work_cn_q8265 depicts person_cn_q10761740 work_cn_q8265 wikidata Related works work_cn_q8265 Dream of the Red Chamber /en/works/dream-red-chamber.html true en zh en is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category literary character disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Dream of the Red Chamber 1 50 1 1 1 1