{ "contentStorage": "postgres", "title": "Li Ping'er", "description": "Li Ping'er is one of the main characters of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei and a tragic figure in it. She is the sixth wife of Ximen Qing. She was first a concubine of Liang Zhongshu, then married Hua Zixu and Jiang Zhushan, and after joining Ximen Qing's household bore a son. She died soon after the child was frightened to death.", "url": "/en/people/li-ping-er.html", "entity": { "id": "person_cn_q107192894", "type": "person", "title": "Li Ping'er", "slug": "li-ping-er", "aliases": [ "李瓶儿" ], "summary": "Li Ping'er is one of the main characters of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei and a tragic figure in it. She is the sixth wife of Ximen Qing. She was first a concubine of Liang Zhongshu, then married Hua Zixu and Jiang Zhushan, and after joining Ximen Qing's household bore a son. She died soon after the child was frightened to death.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature", "category-people", "category-fictional-characters" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q107192894", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107192894" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "李瓶儿（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%93%B6%E5%84%BF" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00", "updatedAt": "2026-10-29T17:21:05+08:00", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 7, "body": "Li Ping'er is a character in the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei and, according to the Chinese Wikipedia article, one of its main characters and one of its tragic figures. Wikidata's Chinese label and the article title are both Li Ping'er, and Wikidata also records forms such as Ping Jie and Sixth Lady. The name is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. This entry records her as a concubine of Ximen Qing in the Song setting of the novel, with the years 1091 and 1117.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Appearance and pet name\n\nThe article quotes the novel as describing her as short, with a round fair face and finely arched brows. It says she was born on the fifteenth of the first month, and that on her birthday someone gave a pair of little fish-shaped bottles, so her pet name became Ping Jie.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Her story\n\nIn the article's summary, she was first a concubine of Liang Zhongshu. When the Liangshan heroes attacked Daming prefecture she fled and married Hua Zixu. After Hua Zixu died she was meant to marry Ximen Qing, but he ignored her because of some trouble of his own, and she married Jiang Zhushan. Ximen Qing felt no remorse and instead came to hate her, framed Jiang Zhushan, and took her as his sixth wife. After she entered the household he treated her cruelly in many ways, until she bore his first son and also brought a great deal of property, and then his attitude turned to affection and gentleness. Pan Jinlian, out of jealousy, later trained a cat to frighten Li Ping'er's son to death, and Li Ping'er died soon after. The article says that Ximen Qing showed rare warmth and sincerity at her deathbed and after her death, which is something not otherwise seen in him.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Character and meaning\n\nThe article says that in the households of Hua Zixu and Jiang Zhushan she was a fairly fierce woman. For instance she gave Hua Zixu's money to Ximen Qing, and when Hua Zixu asked about it she scolded him for three days; when he fell ill she was unwilling to pay for a doctor although she was rich. After marrying Ximen Qing her temper changed greatly: she endured in silence being tormented by Ximen Qing, bullied by Pan Jinlian and having her son killed, and showed great care and sympathy for servants. The article reads her tragedy as a miniature of the common tragedy of women in her age, saying she was willing to bear anything because with Ximen Qing she first felt something like care and tenderness. It also notes that the novel's description of her illness and death reflects the medical ideas of the time of writing, and lists the film Millennium Jin Ping Mei, in which she is played by Sachiyo Yamada.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Li Ping'er, pet name Ping Jie[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Role: concubine (sixth wife) of Ximen Qing[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song state of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q753535|Jin Ping Mei]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/li-ping-er.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "birth": { "year": 1091, "display": "1091" }, "death": { "year": 1117, "display": "1117" }, "disambiguation": "Character in Jin Ping Mei", "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 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