postgres Kuiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her surname is Wei, and her role was the painted face. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid and renamed Wei Daying, from the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. Nothing further is told. /en/people/kui-guan.html person_cn_q10513464 person kui-guan 葵官

Kuiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her surname is Wei, and her role was the painted face. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid and renamed Wei Daying, from the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. Nothing further is told.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10513464 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%91%B5%E5%AE%98 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:19:26+08:00 user:admin 9 Kuiguan is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata names her Kuiguan. The cited article says her surname is Wei and that Shi Xiangyun later renamed her Wei Daying. Both names appear, so the title stays Kuiguan. This entry records her as an actress and a maid, and the story is set in the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## The troupe, and the new name She is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing. The article names the other eleven as Wenguan, Baoguan, Yuguan, Lingguan, Diguan, Ouguan, Ruiguan, Qieguan, Fangguan, Douguan, and Aiguan. Her specialty was the painted-face role. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid. Shi Xiangyun renamed her Wei Daying, taking the sense of the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. The article says nothing further follows.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Name: Kuiguan[^wikidata] - Surname: Wei[^zhwiki] - Later name: Wei Daying[^zhwiki] - Occupations recorded on this entry: actress and maid[^wikidata] - Setting recorded on this entry: the dynasty of the novel[^wikidata] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]][^zhwiki] /people/kui-guan.html en zh en Character in Dream of the Red Chamber true literary character tag-fictional-character fictional-character Fictional character Fictional or literary characters from classic works. 1026 tag-classics classics Classics Classic works and novels of pre-modern China. 1077 tag-four-great-classics four-great-classics Four Great Classical Novels Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and their characters. 572 relation_cnworks_depicts_q8265_q10513464 work_cn_q8265 depicts person_cn_q10513464 work_cn_q8265 wikidata Related works work_cn_q8265 Dream of the Red Chamber /en/works/dream-red-chamber.html true 9 2026-11-02T11:34:18+08:00 当前版本 true /en/people/kui-guan/at/9.html en zh en is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category literary character disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Dream of the Red Chamber 1 depicts true Related works 1