{ "contentStorage": "postgres", "title": "古典名著", "description": "中国古代经典著作与小说。", "url": "/en/tags/classics-2.html", "entities": [ { "id": "person_cn_q10538897", "type": "person", "title": "Lai Shangrong", "slug": "lai-shangrong-q10538897", "aliases": [ "赖尚荣" ], "summary": "Lai Shangrong, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Lai Da and the grandson of Nanny Lai. Servants and a wet nurse raised him, and he studied for office. At twenty the Jia favor bought him a qualification. At thirty, again through the Jia house, he was selected as a county magistrate. This entry records him as a political figure.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10538897", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10538897" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "赖尚荣（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%96%E5%B0%9A%E8%8D%A3" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lai Shangrong is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata names him Lai Shangrong, so the title stays that name. He is the son of Lai Da and the grandson of Nanny Lai. This entry records him as a political figure, and the story is set in the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## The purchased career\n\nFrom childhood, maids, older serving women, and a wet nurse raised him as if he were a phoenix. He studied reading and writing and followed the path of office. At twenty, by the favor of the Jia house, he bought a qualification. At thirty he asked the Jia house again and was selected to go out as a county magistrate.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Lai Shangrong[^wikidata]\n- Parentage: son of Lai Da, grandson of Nanny Lai[^zhwiki]\n- Occupation recorded on this entry: political figure[^wikidata]\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/lai-shangrong-q10538897.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10540116", "type": "person", "title": "Concubine Zhao", "slug": "concubine-zhao-q10540116", "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" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-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": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "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-q10540116.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1054494", "type": "person", "title": "King Mulu", "slug": "king-mulu-q1054494", "aliases": [ "木鹿大王" ], "summary": "King Mulu is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the lord of the Barbarian Bana Cave, who serves under Meng Huo and is skilled in magic. In the novel he rides an elephant into battle and is trampled to death in the fight against Zhuge Liang; Wikidata records his death year as 225.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1054494", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1054494" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "木鹿大王（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E9%B9%BF%E5%A4%A7%E7%8E%8B" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "King Mulu is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata describes him as a lord of a Barbarian cave, and the setting recorded for him is Shu Han. His name is only the honorific \"King\" attached to a place name, with no recorded personal name, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## The character\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article calls him a Barbarian of the southern tribes in the novel, a subordinate of Meng Huo and the lord of the Bana Cave, deeply versed in magic. It says that he rode an elephant when he went out, could call up wind and rain, and was followed by tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, venomous snakes and scorpions. He commanded thirty thousand spirit soldiers and was very brave.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The fight with Zhuge Liang\n\nAccording to the article, he went to war on a huge elephant and at first drove back the Shu Han army. Zhuge Liang then used great beasts loaded with burning material and spitting fire to frighten his elephants. King Mulu fell from his elephant and was trampled to death.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Identity: fictional character of the novel, lord of a Barbarian cave[^wikidata]\n- Died: 225 (as recorded by Wikidata)[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Shu Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|The Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/king-mulu-q1054494.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "death": { "year": 225, "display": "225" }, "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10563992", "type": "person", "title": "Jin Wenxiang", "slug": "jin-wenxiang-q10563992", "aliases": [ "金文翔" ], "summary": "Jin Wenxiang is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, the elder brother of Yuanyang and a purchasing agent for the Lady Dowager. Wikidata records him as a domestic servant surnamed Jin, with Jin Cai as his father and the wife of Jin Wenxiang as his spouse.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10563992", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10563992" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "金文翔（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%96%87%E7%BF%94" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Jin Wenxiang is a minor character in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia character list both give his name as Jin Wenxiang, so the title is unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia character list calls him the elder brother of Yuanyang and a purchasing agent for the Lady Dowager, and places his first appearance in chapter 46. Wikidata likewise describes him as Yuanyang's brother, lists his occupation as domestic worker and his family name as Jin, and gives the setting as the book's fictional Reigning Dynasty.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Family\n\nWikidata records Jin Cai as his father and the wife of Jin Wenxiang as his spouse. His siblings are Yuanyang and another figure called the sister of Yuanyang. Wikidata also lists a Jin Wenxiang house as the dwelling of Yuanyang's brother. The sources give no further narrative detail, so nothing more is said here.[^wikidata]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jin Wenxiang[^wikidata]\n- Role: brother of Yuanyang, purchasing agent for the Lady Dowager[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- First appearance: chapter 46[^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Reigning Dynasty of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]]", "url": "/people/jin-wenxiang-q10563992.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10565906", "type": "person", "title": "Huo Qi", "slug": "huo-qi-q10565906", "aliases": [ "霍启" ], "summary": "Huo Qi is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, a servant of Zhen Shiyin's household who appears in chapter 1. Wikidata records his family name as Huo and his occupation as domestic worker, working and living at the Zhen Mansion on Renqing Street.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10565906", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10565906" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "霍启（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%8D%E5%90%AF" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Huo Qi is a minor character who appears early in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata gives his Chinese name as 霍启, with the variant 霍啟, and the Chinese Wikipedia character list uses 霍启 as well, so the title is unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position\n\nThe character list records him as a servant of Zhen Shiyin's household and places his appearance in chapter 1. Wikidata describes him as a servant of the Zhen household, lists his occupation as domestic worker and his family name as Huo, names Zhen Shiyin as his employer, and gives the Zhen Mansion on Renqing Street as both his workplace and his residence. The recorded setting is the book's fictional Reigning Dynasty.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Scope of the sources\n\nThe two sources behind this entry give only his position, the chapter of his appearance and his service relation, with no further narrative, so nothing more is said here.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Huo Qi, also written 霍啟[^wikidata]\n- Role: servant of the Zhen Shiyin household[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- First appearance: chapter 1[^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Reigning Dynasty of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]]", "url": "/people/huo-qi-q10565906.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10566107", "type": "person", "title": "Shunfeng'er", "slug": "shunfeng-er-q10566107", "aliases": [ "顺风耳" ], "summary": "Shunfeng'er, or With-the-Wind Ear, is a divine general of folk belief and fiction who can hear distant sounds. Paired with Qianliyan, he serves as a guardian of the sea goddess Mazu and is also called the Water Essence General. His origin is told in several ways, one making him Gao Jue, a general of King Zhou of Shang.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10566107", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10566107" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "顺风耳（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A0%86%E9%A2%A8%E8%80%B3" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Shunfeng'er, or With-the-Wind Ear, is a divine general of folk belief and classical fiction who can hear sounds from afar. He is usually named together with Qianliyan. Wikidata classes him as a water deity and describes him as a heavenly god also known as the Water Essence General. His name is a divine epithet, and the accounts give differing origins and names, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Relation to Mazu\n\nChinese Wikipedia says he was originally a monster who appeared together with Qianliyan and harmed the world, was subdued by Mazu and became a divine general with the power to hear every sound in the world. In folk accounts, the two guardians who watch and listen on Mazu's behalf are Qianliyan, also called the Gold Essence General, who holds a halberd in the left hand and raises the right hand to his brow to look far, and Shunfeng'er, also called the Water Essence General, who holds a crescent axe in the right hand and points the left to his ear.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Several origins\n\nThe article lists several traditions. One says the two were transformed from the essences of metal and water. Another says they were Gao Ming and Gao Jue, brothers and generals of King Zhou of Shang, killed in battle against Jiang Ziya. Their spirits lingered on Peach Blossom Mountain until Lin Moniang, later Mazu, subdued them with sacred tools, after which they cultivated the Way and became her two helpers once she became a goddess. A third says they were heavenly generals sent down by the Jade Emperor to wait and help Mazu rescue those in distress at sea. Another source says Mazu is an incarnation of Guanyin, so that Qianliyan \"watches disasters a thousand li away\" and Shunfeng'er \"listens to sounds and relieves suffering\", and the two words together make up the sense of Guanyin.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Appearance in popular accounts\n\nThe article describes Qianliyan as green-faced, green-robed and two-horned, and Shunfeng'er as red-faced, red-robed and one-horned, with an axe in his right hand and his left hand pointing at his ear. Both have eyes like bronze bells, teeth like short swords, a body more than ten feet tall and a voice like a bronze bell. A folk tale adds that Gao Ming could see a thousand li and Gao Jue could hear a thousand li, so that King Zhou knew King Wu of Zhou's plans in advance. Jiang Ziya saw through them with a demon-revealing mirror, had the whole army beat gongs and wave great banners, and scattered dog's blood so that the two lost their power and died.[^zhwiki]\n\n## In fiction\n\nThe article also notes that in Journey to the South, also called the Story of the Five Manifestations, Shunfeng'er is a demon subdued by Huaguang together with the White Tiger spirit and Qianliyan. This site lists him as appearing in Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, but the sources used here do not describe those episodes.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Shunfeng'er, also written 順風耳[^wikidata]\n- Kind: water deity, heavenly god, also called the Water Essence General[^wikidata]\n- Counterpart: Qianliyan[^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]], [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]]", "url": "/people/shunfeng-er-q10566107.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10566629", "type": "person", "title": "Ma Daopo", "slug": "ma-daopo-q10566629", "aliases": [ "马道婆" ], "summary": "Ma Daopo is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, the godmother to whom Jia Baoyu is nominally entrusted, and a woman who follows money. At Concubine Zhao's urging she uses sorcery to harm Baoyu and Wang Xifeng, who are saved by a monk and a Daoist, and in chapter 81 she is caught and handed to the authorities.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10566629", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10566629" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "马道婆（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E9%81%93%E5%A9%86" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Ma Daopo is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata gives her Chinese name as 马道婆, records her family name as Ma, and lists the variant 馬道婆. Daopo is a term for her station, and no personal name is recorded, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position and character\n\nChinese Wikipedia says she is the godmother to whom Jia Baoyu is nominally entrusted, and that she is a woman who follows money. Wikidata records her residence as Shenjing, the novel's fictional capital, and the setting as the Reigning Dynasty.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## The sorcery\n\nAccording to the article, she asks the Lady Dowager to donate five catties of oil each day to light the sea lamps, as a cure for Baoyu, while at the same time plotting with Concubine Zhao to harm Baoyu and Wang Xifeng in secret by sorcery. A monk and a Daoist come to the rescue, and so Baoyu and Xifeng escape the disaster.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Exposure\n\nThe article says that in chapter 81 her deeds come to light, and she is seized by the injured party and sent to the authorities.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Ma Daopo, also written 馬道婆[^wikidata]\n- Role: godmother to whom Jia Baoyu is nominally entrusted[^zhwiki]\n- Residence: Shenjing, the novel's fictional capital[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Reigning Dynasty of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]]", "url": "/people/ma-daopo-q10566629.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10567374", "type": "person", "title": "Lingguan", "slug": "lingguan-q10567374", "aliases": [ "龄官" ], "summary": "Lingguan is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the twelve girl actresses in the Jia family's private Kunqu troupe, and the one given the most space among those twelve. She is the best singer, headstrong, and close to Jia Qiang, and the scene of her writing the character for Qiang is a classic episode of the novel.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10567374", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10567374" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "龄官（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%84%E5%AE%98" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lingguan is a character in the Qing novel Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the twelve girl actresses of the Jia family's private Kunqu troupe, and the one given the most space among the twelve officials of the troupe. Wikidata and Chinese Wikipedia both name her Lingguan, with the variant 齡官, and the novel gives her no other name, so the title is unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the troupe\n\nWikidata records her occupation as actor and her residence as Lixiang Yuan, a courtyard of the Rongguo house. In the article's account, when the Jia household built the Grand View Garden, Jia Qiang was sent to Suzhou and bought twelve girls, who lived in Lixiang Yuan and formed a household troupe. Lingguan was the best singer of the twelve. When the Imperial Consort visited her family she chose four plays, particularly admired Lingguan, let her choose two more, and gave rewards. She later summoned Lingguan to perform in the palace.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Temperament\n\nThe article stresses her strong character. When extra plays were added for the visit, Jia Qiang, who managed the troupe, had her perform the scenes Strolling in the Garden and Waking from the Dream, but she insisted on the pieces of her own line, A Meeting by Appointment and A Quarrel. When the consort summoned the troupe to the palace she did not sing, saying her voice was hoarse. When Jia Baoyu came wanting to hear her sing a piece from The Peony Pavilion, the other actresses smiled and gave him a seat, but when he sat beside Lingguan she rose and moved away and refused him sternly, a rare snub for him. Jia Qiang spent one tael and eight mace of silver on a bird to cheer her up, and she rebuked him, saying she was like a caged bird without freedom, and called the Jia house a pit of confinement. Seen through Baoyu's eyes, she is slight, with a sorrowful look about the brows, graceful and \"very much like Lin Daiyu\".[^zhwiki]\n\n## With Jia Qiang\n\nLingguan was close to Jia Qiang. The article tells how, under the scorching sun of the fifth month, she crouched beneath a rose trellis, weeping and writing the character for \"Qiang\" over and over on the ground with a hairpin. The scene touched the watching Baoyu and showed him that not every girl's heart is set on him alone.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The troupe disbanded\n\nWhen the Imperial Dowager Consort died, performances were banned across the country for a year, and the Jia house disbanded the troupe. Some of the twelve stayed and some were taken home by their parents. The article notes that Lingguan's name is not among those who stayed.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Assessment\n\nAccording to the article, the Zhiyan zhai commentary disliked her insistence on performing her own role and called her affected and bossy. Later readers are mostly positive. Yu Pingbo, for example, summed her up as stubborn, obstinate, devoted and eccentric, and praised her strong resistance despite her low rank. The episode of her writing the character for Qiang was once included in a Beijing senior high school Chinese textbook, and the writer Wang Meng praised it as written like a modern Western short story.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Lingguan, also written 齡官[^wikidata]\n- Occupation: actor, an actress of the Jia family troupe[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Residence: Lixiang Yuan[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Reigning Dynasty of the novel[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q8265|Dream of the Red Chamber]]", "url": "/people/lingguan-q10567374.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1057244", "type": "person", "title": "Zhou Shan", "slug": "zhou-shan-q1057244", "aliases": [ "周善" ], "summary": "Zhou Shan is a fictional character invented for Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with no historical counterpart. In the novel he is a household general of Sun Quan, sent to Jingzhou to bring Lady Sun back to Wu, and he is killed by Zhang Fei when the party is intercepted in chapter 61.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1057244", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1057244" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "周善（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%A8%E5%96%84" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Zhou Shan is an invented character of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Chinese Wikipedia states plainly that no such person existed in history. Wikidata and Chinese Wikipedia both name him Zhou Shan, so the title is unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, he followed Sun Ce from childhood and, after Sun Ce's death, followed Sun Quan as one of his household generals. When Liu Bei entered western Shu, Zhou Shan was ordered to Jingzhou to bring Lady Sun, Sun Shangxiang, back to Wu. On the way he was intercepted by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun and killed by Zhang Fei. The article cites chapter 61 of the novel, in which Zhao Yun cuts off the river crossing to recover Adou and Sun Quan sends a letter to turn back Cao Cao.[^zhwiki]\n\n## What Wikidata records\n\nWikidata lists his occupation as military officer, his allegiance as the Sun Quan of the novel, his manner of death as homicide, his killer as the Zhang Fei of the novel, his place of death as the novel's Jingzhou, and the setting as the novel's country of Han.[^wikidata]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Zhou Shan[^wikidata]\n- Role: fictional character, subordinate general of Sun Quan[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Manner of death: killed by Zhang Fei[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|The Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]", "url": "/people/zhou-shan-q1057244.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1057356", "type": "person", "title": "Misty", "slug": "misty-q1057356", "aliases": [ "小霞" ], "summary": "Misty (Japanese Kasumi, Chinese Xiaoxia) is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise and the female lead of the original Pokémon anime series. She dreams of becoming the greatest water-type Pokémon trainer and is a gym leader of Cerulean City.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1057356", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1057356" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "小霞（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E9%9C%9E" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Misty is a fictional character of the Japanese Pokémon franchise. Her Japanese name is Kasumi, and her Chinese name is Xiaoxia (小霞). Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article on 小霞 both describe this character, not a figure of Dream of the Red Chamber, and 小霞 is simply her usual Chinese rendering, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Overview\n\nChinese Wikipedia says Misty is a fictional character of the Pokémon anime and the female lead of its original series. Her dream is to become the greatest water-type Pokémon trainer in the world, so her Pokémon are mostly water types, among them Staryu, Psyduck and Corsola. The article notes that in Western countries her name was changed to Misty Williams. Wikidata records her as a Pokémon trainer and a gym leader, names Satoshi Tajiri as her creator, and lists several games in which she appears, including Pokémon Red and Green, Gold and Silver, FireRed and LeafGreen, HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. Its voice actor field lists Ayane Sakura and Rachael Lillis.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the anime\n\nThe article describes her as the first female lead of the Pokémon anime, lively and somewhat tsundere, who calls herself a world-class beauty and is the youngest of the four beautiful sisters of Cerulean City. The three older sisters are Daisy, Violet and Lily. She has some feeling for Ash, but quarrels with him constantly on the road. She is sharp-tongued and soft-hearted. She likes water-type Pokémon and dislikes bug types, and she regards Gyarados as a natural enemy because as a child she once put her head into a Gyarados's mouth and nearly got swallowed. She is gentle with Togepi like a mother and very close to Pikachu.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Journey and gym\n\nAccording to the article, she first appears fishing by a stream in Viridian Forest, when her bicycle is borrowed by Ash, who is anxious about Pikachu's injury, and then electrified to ruin by Pikachu, so she travels with Ash. At the Cerulean Gym she admits she is the youngest of the four sisters and takes Ash's gym battle in place of her sisters, who did not want to fight, until Team Rocket interrupts. After the Silver Conference she is told that her sisters have gone travelling and want her to take over the gym, so she parts from Ash and Brock there. She is later invited to the Hoenn region because of Togepi, and in Sun and Moon she returns as a guest instructor, meets Ash again, and battles him at her gym.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Her Pokémon\n\nThe Pokémon listed in the article include Goldeen, Staryu, Starmie and Horsea, her first ones. Psyduck first appears in episode 27 and was caught by accident. It cannot swim and unleashes psychic powers when its head aches. Togepi is the only non-water type she owns, and in the anime it evolves and leaves her. A Poliwag and its evolutions are also listed. The article adds that she later catches a Gyarados at a broadcasting station.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Misty, Japanese Kasumi, Chinese 小霞[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Roles: Pokémon trainer, gym leader[^wikidata]\n- Creator: Satoshi Tajiri (Wikidata creator field)[^wikidata]\n- Universe: the Pokémon franchise[^wikidata]", "url": "/people/misty-q1057356.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1057885", "type": "person", "title": "Qin Ming", "slug": "qin-ming-q1057885", "aliases": [ "秦明" ], "summary": "Qin Ming is a character in Water Margin, one of the 108 Liangshan heroes, matched with the Heavenly Fierce Star, nicknamed Thunderbolt, who wields a spiked club and ranks third of the Five Tiger Generals of the cavalry. A commander at Qingzhou driven onto Liangshan by Song Jiang's scheme, he is killed in the campaign against Fang La when Fang Jie unseats him in Qingxi County.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1057885", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1057885" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "秦明（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%A6%E6%98%8E" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Qin Ming is a character in the classical novel Water Margin. Wikidata's Chinese label is 秦明, with the family name Qin and the given name Ming, and the Chinese Wikipedia article uses the same name, so the title is unchanged. Wikidata gives his birthplace as Kaizhou and the setting as the Great Song, and records his death year as 1120 within the story.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Character and nickname\n\nChinese Wikipedia calls him one of the 108 Liangshan heroes, matched with the Heavenly Fierce Star, third of the Five Tiger Generals of the cavalry, and a fighter with a spiked club. Because he is hot-tempered and fierce, roars so as to shake the sky, and likes a red helmet and red robe, he is nicknamed Thunderbolt. The article says that Huang Xin, of the Earthly Fiend stars, is his disciple and that he often leads the charge in the Liangshan army, one of the heroes who has taken part in the most duels. Wikidata lists his occupation as military officer and records forms of address such as Commander Qin and Director Qin.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Driven to Liangshan\n\nThe article says that his family came from Kaizhou beyond the mountains and that he was commander of the Qingzhou military office. Learning that Hua Rong had rebelled, he led five hundred men himself to seize him and fought forty or fifty rounds without result, but being bold without strategy he fell into a pit and was captured. Even then he refused to submit. Song Jiang, who knew his valor, wanted him as a general and, with Hua Rong and others, devised a plot that led Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, to believe Qin Ming had gone over to Liangshan and to kill his whole family. Qin Ming flew into a rage, joined Song Jiang, swore revenge and took part in the capture of Qingzhou. Hua Rong, guilty about it, gave Qin Ming his sister as wife, and Song Jiang and the others comforted him generously, so he put the grievance aside. Wikidata also lists two spouses for him, his first wife and the sister of Hua Rong.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Deeds on Liangshan\n\nOn Liangshan he won repeated merit with his club in a series of battles including those against the Zhu family estate and Gaotang. When Guan Sheng led an army against Liangshan, Qin Ming captured Xuan Zan alive, which forced Guan Sheng to submit. At the great ranking he stood seventh and third of the Five Tiger Generals. He later accepted the court's amnesty with the other heroes and took part in the campaigns against the Liao, Wang Qing, Tian Hu and Fang La.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Death in the Fang La campaign\n\nIn the southern campaign he killed the enemy general Feng Yi with a hammer, among other feats. Near the end, on the border of Qingxi County, he met Fang La's nephew Fang Jie and others. He fought dozens of rounds against Fang Jie's halberd without a result, until the enemy general Du Wei threw a flying knife to distract him, and Fang Jie thrust him from his horse and killed him. Song Jiang grieved that the veteran fell just as the war was ending and the army about to return in triumph, and after his memorial in the capital the court posthumously gave Qin Ming the rank of Zhongwu Lang. Wikidata likewise records Fang Jie as his killer, Qingxi County as the place of death and injury as the cause.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Old judgments\n\nThe article quotes a few older remarks. Jin Shengtan puts Qin Ming and Suo Chao among the upper-middle figures. Li Zhuowu says that men like Qin Ming and Huyan Zhuo were forced by circumstances and lured into the band by Song Jiang and should not all be called robbers, though he adds that anyone who cannot give his life for benevolence and righteousness is a robber. Yu Xiangdou says Qin Ming, in rushing out of the prefecture to seize Hua Rong, showed more courage than Liu Gao.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Qin Ming[^wikidata]\n- Nickname: Thunderbolt; star: Heavenly Fierce Star[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Birthplace: Kaizhou[^wikidata]\n- Died: 1120 (Wikidata, within the story)[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Great Song[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]]", "url": "/people/qin-ming-q1057885.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q106310923", "type": "person", "title": "Yunxiao Niangniang", "slug": "yunxiao-niangniang-q106310923", "aliases": [ "云霄娘娘" ], "summary": "Yunxiao Niangniang is one of the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island in Investiture of the Gods and a sister of Zhao Gongming, who with Bixiao and Qiongxiao is known as the Three Xiao Ladies. She helps her brother in the war, sets up the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and is defeated by Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi Tianzun, after which she is enthroned as a goddess.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q106310923", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106310923" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "云霄娘娘（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B2%E9%9C%84%E5%A8%98%E5%A8%98" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Yunxiao Niangniang is a character in Investiture of the Gods. Wikidata classes her as a goddess, as part of the group of the Three Xiao Ladies, with the novel's fictional Jiejiao as her religion and Sanxian Island as her residence. Yunxiao Niangniang is the form of address used in the book and no other name is recorded, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## One of the three ladies\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia character list for Investiture of the Gods gives Yunxiao, Bixiao and Qiongxiao a single entry, calling them the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island and sisters of Zhao Gongming. Wikidata lists Bixiao Niangniang, Qiongxiao Niangniang and Zhao Gongming as her siblings.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the war of investiture\n\nAccording to the article, Zhao Gongming's own magic treasure was taken from him and he came to his sisters to borrow the Golden Scissors. Yunxiao did not want everyone drawn into the war of investiture, but she feared her two younger sisters would act without judgment, and in the end all three sisters took part. Their Golden Scissors and the Hunyuan Golden Dipper were powerful treasures, and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation they laid even captured the twelve immortals of the Chan sect, but they were still no match for Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi Tianzun, and were defeated and killed.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Enthronement\n\nThe article says that after death the three were made gods under the title Immortal Ladies Who Respond to the World, who keep the Hunyuan Golden Dipper and oversee the cycle of rebirth. It also mentions that Hanzhi Xian and Caiyun Xianzi joined the Three Xiao Ladies in taking vengeance for Zhao Gongming and helping Wen Zhong's army against Xiqi.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Yunxiao Niangniang, also written 雲霄娘娘[^wikidata]\n- Kind: goddess, one of the Three Xiao Ladies[^wikidata]\n- Religion and residence: Jiejiao, Sanxian Island[^wikidata]\n- Siblings: Zhao Gongming, Bixiao Niangniang, Qiongxiao Niangniang[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]]", "url": "/people/yunxiao-niangniang-q106310923.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q106310988", "type": "person", "title": "Bixiao Niangniang", "slug": "bixiao-niangniang-q106310988", "aliases": [ "碧霄娘娘" ], "summary": "Bixiao Niangniang is one of the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island in Investiture of the Gods, a sister of Zhao Gongming, and a member of the Three Xiao Ladies with Yunxiao and Qiongxiao. Wikidata records her as a deity who died in battle; in the book the three sisters are defeated and then made gods.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q106310988", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106310988" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "碧霄娘娘（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A2%A7%E9%9C%84%E5%A8%98%E5%A8%98" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Bixiao Niangniang is a character in Investiture of the Gods. The Chinese Wikipedia character list also writes her name as 碧宵娘娘, while Wikidata's Chinese label is 碧霄娘娘. This is the form of address used in the book and no other name is recorded, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Among the three ladies\n\nWikidata records her as a deity belonging to the group of the Three Xiao Ladies, with Sanxian Island as her residence and the Investiture of the Gods universe as her world. It lists Yunxiao Niangniang and Zhao Gongming as her siblings and gives her manner of death as death in battle. The Chinese Wikipedia list puts her in one entry with Yunxiao and Qiongxiao, calling them the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island and sisters of Zhao Gongming.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## The war and its end\n\nAccording to the list, when Zhao Gongming's treasure was taken from him he borrowed the Golden Scissors from his three sisters, and all three finally entered the war of investiture. Their Golden Scissors and the Hunyuan Golden Dipper were powerful, and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation they laid captured the twelve immortals of the Chan sect, but they could not stand against Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi Tianzun and were defeated and killed. The list adds that after death the three were made gods under the title Immortal Ladies Who Respond to the World, keeping the Hunyuan Golden Dipper and overseeing rebirth. The sources give no separate account of Bixiao Niangniang's own fighting, so no detailed episodes are told here.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Bixiao Niangniang, also written 碧宵娘娘 in the list[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Kind: deity, one of the Three Xiao Ladies[^wikidata]\n- Residence: Sanxian Island[^wikidata]\n- Siblings: Yunxiao Niangniang, Zhao Gongming[^wikidata]\n- Manner of death: death in battle[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]]", "url": "/people/bixiao-niangniang-q106310988.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q106310989", "type": "person", "title": "Qiongxiao Niangniang", "slug": "qiongxiao-niangniang-q106310989", "aliases": [ "琼霄娘娘" ], "summary": "Qiongxiao Niangniang is one of the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island in Investiture of the Gods, a sister of Zhao Gongming, and a member of the Three Xiao Ladies with Yunxiao and Bixiao. Wikidata records her as a deity of Chinese mythology in charge of childbirth, who died in battle at the hands of Baihe Tongzi.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q106310989", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106310989" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "琼霄娘娘（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%93%8A%E9%9C%84%E5%A8%98%E5%A8%98" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Qiongxiao Niangniang is a character in Investiture of the Gods. Wikidata's Chinese label is 琼霄娘娘, while the Chinese Wikipedia character list writes 瓊宵娘娘. This is the form of address used in the book and no other name is recorded, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Divine office and the recorded facts\n\nWikidata records her as a deity belonging to the group of the Three Xiao Ladies, worshipped within Chinese mythology, with childbirth as her domain, and its English description calls her a Chinese goddess of childbirth. It lists Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao Niangniang as her siblings, gives her manner of death as death in battle, and names Baihe Tongzi as her killer; Baihe Tongzi is described there as a page serving in Yuxu Palace.[^wikidata]\n\n## The story of the three ladies\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia character list puts her in one entry with Yunxiao and Bixiao, calling them the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island and sisters of Zhao Gongming. Zhao Gongming's own treasure was taken from him, and he borrowed the Golden Scissors from the sisters, who then all joined the war of investiture. With the Golden Scissors and the Hunyuan Golden Dipper, two powerful treasures, they laid the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, which captured the twelve immortals of the Chan sect, but they could not stand against Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi Tianzun and were defeated and killed. The list says that after death they were made gods under the title Immortal Ladies Who Respond to the World, keeping the Hunyuan Golden Dipper and overseeing rebirth. The list does not narrate Qiongxiao Niangniang's own fighting, so who killed her is given here only as Wikidata records it, alongside the list's account of the general outcome.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Qiongxiao Niangniang, also written 瓊宵娘娘 in the list[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Kind: deity, one of the Three Xiao Ladies, goddess of childbirth[^wikidata]\n- Siblings: Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao Niangniang[^wikidata]\n- Manner of death: death in battle, killed by Baihe Tongzi[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]]", "url": "/people/qiongxiao-niangniang-q106310989.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q106371734", "type": "person", "title": "Princess Longji", "slug": "princess-longji-q106371734", "aliases": [ "龙吉公主" ], "summary": "Princess Longji is a character in Investiture of the Gods, the daughter of the Hao Heaven Lord and the Golden Mother of the Jade Pool, who was banished to the Qingluan Douque on Phoenix Mountain after a lapse at the Peach Banquet. She helps the Zhou camp defeat Luo Xuan, marries Hong Jin, is struck down in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and killed, and is made the Red Phoenix Star.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q106371734", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106371734" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "龙吉公主（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D%E5%90%89%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Princess Longji is a character in Investiture of the Gods. Wikidata gives her Chinese name as 龍吉公主 and an English alias, Longji Princess, and the Chinese Wikipedia character list uses the same name. This is the form of address used in the book and no other name is recorded, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Origin and banishment\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia character list says she is a daughter of the Hao Heaven Lord and the Golden Mother of the Jade Pool. At the Peach Banquet in one year she was serving wine, broke the rules and let her thoughts turn to the mortal world, and for that she was banished to the Qingluan Douque on Phoenix Mountain. Wikidata gives that building as her residence and describes her as a goddess.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Helping the Zhou camp\n\nIn the list's account, when Luo Xuan set fire to Xiqi with his Ten-Thousand-Mile Smoke-Cloud treasure, Princess Longji came to help. She released water with her Mist and Dew Net to take in all the smoke, took Luo Xuan's Five-Dragon Wheel with her Four Seas Bottle, and cut down his mount with her Twin-Dragon Sword, so that Luo Xuan fled. In the entry on Liu Huan the list adds that Liu Huan was killed by her Twin-Dragon Sword. Facing the garrison commander Hong Jin at Sanshan Pass, she captured him with treasures such as the Dragon-Binding Rope. The Old Man under the Moon said the two were fated to marry. She thought it an ill-fated match, but she married Hong Jin anyway. After that husband and wife fought side by side. She wounded Kong Xuan with the Phoenix Sword, and she broke Hu Lei's substitute trick with the Heaven-and-Earth Needle so that his head could fall. The list notes that she and Deng Chanyu were the only two women commanders in the Zhou camp.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The end in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation\n\nThe list says that in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation she wounded several immortals with her White Light Sword but was struck on the crown by Jinling Shengmu's Four Images Pagoda, fell from her horse, was killed by the crowd of immortals, and was finally made the Red Phoenix Star. Wikidata likewise gives her manner of death as death in battle and her spouse as Hong Jin, but it records Tongguan as her place of death, which does not agree with the formation named in the list. The sources do not reconcile the two, so both are stated here.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Princess Longji, also written 龍吉公主[^wikidata]\n- Status: daughter of the Hao Heaven Lord and the Golden Mother of the Jade Pool, a goddess[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Residence: Qingluan Douque[^wikidata]\n- Spouse: Hong Jin[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Manner of death: death in battle[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]]", "url": "/people/princess-longji-q106371734.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1064059", "type": "person", "title": "Queen Mother of the West", "slug": "queen-mother-west-q1064059", "aliases": [ "西王母" ], "summary": "The Queen Mother of the West is a goddess of Chinese mythology and folk belief and a female immortal of Daoism, who dwells at the Jade Pool on Mount Kunlun, paired with the King Father of the East. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas she is a leopard-tailed, tiger-toothed deity of plague, in the Story of King Mu she exchanges songs with King Mu of Zhou at the Jade Pool, and by the Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of Han she is a woman of unmatched beauty who keeps the peaches and the elixir of immortality.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1064059", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064059" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "西王母（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E7%8E%8B%E6%AF%8D" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "The Queen Mother of the West is a goddess of Chinese mythology and folk belief and a female immortal of Daoism. She has many names, among them Wangmu Niangniang, Jinmu, the Golden Mother of the Jade Pool, and Jinmu Yuanjun. These are titles. The sources disagree about her personal name, and there is no single recorded name, so the title stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Names and conflicting accounts\n\nChinese Wikipedia lists many of her names and honorific titles and cites the Tang writer Duan Chengshi's Youyang Zazu, which says that the Queen Mother of the West was surnamed Yang and named Hui, ruled the northwest corner of Kunlun and died on a dingchou day, with another account giving the name Wanjin. It also cites Du Guangting's Yongcheng Jixian Lu, which calls her the Golden Mother of Turtle Mountain, born at Yichuan in the divine continent and surnamed Gou. The two accounts do not agree, so both are given and neither is chosen. Wikidata classes her as a goddess, a Daoist deity and a mythical character, and also records her as a character in several television productions.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the Classic of Mountains and Seas\n\nThe article says that the term Western Mother already appears in Shang oracle inscriptions, and the scholar Chen Mengjia took it to mean her. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas the Queen Mother of the West looks like a person but has a leopard's tail and tiger's teeth, whistles, has tangled hair and wears a headdress, and is the deity in charge of the heavenly plague and the five afflictions. She dwells on Jade Mountain and is fed by three blue birds. The article notes that by the first century AD her image had left the original monstrous form and turned into that of a noblewoman.[^zhwiki]\n\n## With King Mu, Yi and Emperor Wu\n\nThe Story of King Mu records that King Mu of Zhou travelled west, presented a white jade tablet, a black jade disc and brocade, and was received by the Queen Mother of the West, who bowed twice and accepted. She feasted him at the Jade Pool and the two exchanged songs. She sang that if he did not die he might yet come again, and described herself as a daughter of the Lord of Heaven who lives among tigers and leopards with magpies for company. The Huainanzi says that Yi begged her for the elixir of immortality and that his wife Heng'e stole it and fled to the moon. From the Eastern Han on, the Story of Emperor Wu of Han and the Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of Han tell how the emperor awaited her on the seventh day of the seventh month and she came in a purple-cloud carriage and gave him seven immortal peaches, the pan peaches, said to bear fruit only once in three thousand years. The article says the Inner Biography is the first to describe her unmatched beauty, as a woman who looked about thirty.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Place in Daoism\n\nThe article says that as Daoism rose, her rank was raised. Accounts from the Eastern Jin on make her the Nine-Light Dark Lady born of the Primal Heavenly King and the Supreme Mother, counterpart of the King Father of the East, the pair being called Wood Lord and Metal Mother, with authority over all women who have attained immortality. The half-beast form with a tiger's head and leopard's tail is said, as the article cites it, not to be her true form but that of the White Tiger spirit of the west, her messenger.[^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novels\n\nThis site lists her as appearing in Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West. Wikidata also records her as a character in several television productions, including New Legend of Madame White Snake and several versions of Journey to the West. The sources used here do not describe her episodes in the two novels.[^wikidata]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Form of address: Queen Mother of the West, also called Wangmu Niangniang, the Golden Mother of the Jade Pool, Jinmu Yuanjun and others[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Kind: goddess, Daoist deity, mythical character[^wikidata]\n- Dwelling: the Jade Pool on Mount Kunlun[^zhwiki]\n- Counterpart: the King Father of the East[^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]], [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]]", "url": "/people/queen-mother-west-q1064059.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1064086", "type": "person", "title": "Gong Zhi", "slug": "gong-zhi-q1064086", "aliases": [ "巩志" ], "summary": "Gong Zhi (鞏志) is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a staff officer under Jin Xuan, governor of Wuling. When Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei against Wuling, he urged Jin Xuan to surrender and was refused, so he shot Jin Xuan dead, led the people over to Liu Bei, and was later appointed governor of Wuling.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1064086", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064086" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "巩志（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9E%8F%E5%BF%97" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 7, "body": "Gong Zhi is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label is 鞏志, written 巩志 in simplified characters, and the Chinese Wikipedia article is also under 鞏志, so the title is unchanged. Wikidata records his occupation as official and his position as governor, with Wuling of the novel as both his workplace and his residence, and the setting as the novel's country of Han.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nChinese Wikipedia says that he served as a staff officer under Jin Xuan, governor of Wuling. When Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to attack Wuling, Gong Zhi urged Jin Xuan to surrender to Liu Bei, and Jin Xuan refused. After Jin Xuan lost to Zhang Fei, Gong Zhi shot him dead with one arrow and went over to Liu Bei with the people, and Liu Bei then appointed him governor of Wuling. The article cites chapter 53 of the novel.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Other works\n\nThe article adds that in the manga Huofeng Liaoyuan he does not appear in person. Liu Feng only mentions that, when Liu Bei attacked the four commanderies south of the Jing, Gong Zhi killed Jin Xuan, who had made a false surrender to Liu Bei in collusion with Han Xuan, and that he was Zhuge Liang's inside agent.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Gong Zhi (鞏志)[^wikidata]\n- Role: fictional character, governor of Wuling[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Occupation: official[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|The Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]", "url": "/people/gong-zhi-q1064086.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q107192894", "type": "person", "title": "Li Ping'er", "slug": "li-ping-er-q107192894", "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" ], "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": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "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-q107192894.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" }, { "id": "person_cn_q107207758", "type": "person", "title": "Bao Xin", "slug": "bao-xin-sanguo-q107207758-q807052", "aliases": [ "鲍信" ], "summary": "Bao Xin is a Han dynasty official in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata records him as a fictional character based on the historical Bao Xin. The only source here is Wikidata, which gives his role, his affiliation and a sibling.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q107207758", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107207758" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 5, "body": "Bao Xin is a character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label is Bao Xin, written in traditional characters in one form and simplified in the other, and it describes him as a fictional figure of the novel and a Han dynasty official, so the heading stays the same. This entry is the figure in the work, not the historical person of the same name.[^wikidata]\n\n## What Wikidata records\n\nWikidata classes this item as a fictional human and a literary character, gives his occupation as politician, and his affiliation as Han. Its English description calls him a fictional Han dynasty general and its Chinese description calls him a Han official, so the two do not quite agree. It also lists a sibling, Bao Zhong. Wikidata gives no courtesy name, home, birth or death dates or plot, and nothing further is added here.[^wikidata]\n\n## Relation to the historical person\n\nThe site has a separate entry for the historical person on whom the figure in the novel is based; see [[person_cn_q807052|Bao Xin]].[^wikidata]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Bao Xin[^wikidata]\n- Category: fictional human, literary character[^wikidata]\n- Affiliation: Han[^wikidata]\n- Sibling: Bao Zhong[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]", "url": "/people/bao-xin-sanguo-q107207758-q807052.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1075357", "type": "person", "title": "Lu Zhishen", "slug": "lu-zhishen-q1075357", "aliases": [ "鲁智深" ], "summary": "Lu Zhishen is one of the 108 heroes of Liangshan in Water Margin. Born Lu Da in Weizhou, he was an officer in a garrison office until he killed the butcher Zheng Tu and became a monk under the name Zhishen, known as the Flowery Monk. He saved Lin Chong at Wild Boar Forest, joined Liangshan, opposed accepting amnesty, and died in a temple at Hangzhou after the campaign against Fang La.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1075357", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075357" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "鲁智深（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B2%81%E6%99%BA%E6%B7%B1" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 5, "body": "Lu Zhishen is an important character in the classical vernacular novel Water Margin and one of the 108 heroes of Liangshan. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Lu Zhishen, and the article says his original name was Lu Da, his monastic name Zhishen, and that he is called the Flowery Monk because of the tattoos on his body, so the heading stays the name used in the book. This entry records the novel's setting as the Song state, with the death year given by Wikidata as 1120.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Killing and ordination\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Lu Da was tall and powerfully built, with a temper like fire and enormous strength. He was an officer in the office of Zhong Shizhong in Weizhou, and met Shi Jin and Li Zhong in a teahouse. While the three were drinking they heard that the girl Jin Cuilian was being bullied by the local bully Zheng Tu, called Lord West of the Pass. Lu Da went to teach him a lesson and killed him by accident, then fled Weizhou. With help from Squire Zhao he went to Wenshu Monastery on Mount Wutai and was ordained, taking the name Zhishen. He could not keep the monastic rules, got drunk and caused trouble more than once, and the elder Zhizhen sent him to the Great Xiangguo Monastery in Bianliang. On the road he posed as the bride in Peach Blossom Village to thrash Zhou Tong, who was forcing a villager's daughter into marriage, and at Waguan Monastery he joined Shi Jin in killing Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi, who had seized the temple.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Wild Boar Forest and Liangshan\n\nThe article says that at the Xiangguo Monastery he was set to guard the vegetable garden and cowed the local ruffians who came to make trouble by pulling up a willow by its roots. He swore brotherhood with Lin Chong, and when Lin Chong was framed by Gao Qiu and sent to Cangzhou in exile, he followed secretly, beat down the guards Dong Chao and Xue Ba at Wild Boar Forest, and saw Lin Chong to within seventy li of Cangzhou before leaving. Gao Qiu forced him out of the monastery, and he burned the garden and became a fugitive. He later took Erlong Mountain with Yang Zhi, Cao Zheng and others, and Wu Song and others came to join them. When Huyan Zhuo attacked Qingzhou, Erlong, Peach Blossom and White Tiger mountains joined forces, Song Jiang brought Liangshan troops to help, and Huyan Zhuo was captured and joined Liangshan; the heroes of the three mountains then went up to Liangshan together. After reaching Liangshan he proposed recruiting Shi Jin, who had been captured by Governor He at Huazhou. He rushed into the city alone and was captured too, until Liangshan took Huazhou and freed them both.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Against amnesty, and his end\n\nThe article records that he ranks thirteenth among the Liangshan heroes, matched to the Heaven Lonely Star among the thirty-six heavenly spirits, and is the first of the ten foot-soldier leaders. When Song Jiang's poem hinted at accepting amnesty, he, Wu Song and Li Kui flared up on the spot, and he said the whole court was full of traitors and that accepting amnesty would do no good. After the amnesty he went with Song Jiang to see the elder Zhizhen on Mount Wutai, and took part in the campaigns against the Liao, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La, capturing Fang La alive at Wulong Ridge. After the war Song Jiang urged him to return to lay life and take office, and he said his heart was ashes and he wanted only a quiet place. He stayed at Liuhe Temple in Hangzhou and looked after the gravely ill Lin Chong together with Wu Song, who was also there. Lin Chong died. Half a year later, one night, he heard the tide on the Qiantang river, realized his end had come, bathed, changed his clothes and passed away. The article adds that in the old text of Water Margin he does not die in Hangzhou but goes back to Mount Wutai with Wu Song to practice.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Names: Lu Zhishen, originally Lu Da, monastic name Zhishen, nicknamed the Flowery Monk[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Home: Weizhou[^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song state[^wikidata]\n- Star: Heaven Lonely Star, thirteenth of the 108[^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/lu-zhishen-q1075357.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10757585", "type": "person", "title": "Yang Feng", "slug": "yang-feng-q10757585", "aliases": [ "杨锋" ], "summary": "Yang Feng is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, chief of the twenty-one caves of Yinye Cave among the Nanman. Having received kindness from Zhuge Liang, he pretended to bring troops to help Meng Huo, seized Meng Huo, Meng You and the chieftain Duosi at a banquet, and handed them to Zhuge Liang, bringing about Meng Huo's fifth capture.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10757585", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10757585" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "杨锋（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E9%8B%92" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 4, "body": "Yang Feng is a fictional character in the chapter-novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label is Yang Feng, written in traditional characters in one form and simplified in the other, and the Chinese Wikipedia article carries the same name and calls him a fictional character of the novel, so the heading stays the same. The article describes him as chief of the twenty-one caves of Yinye Cave among the Nanman, and the work's setting is Shu Han.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the story\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Yang Feng had been treated kindly by Zhuge Liang, and his brothers and nephews all owed their lives to Zhuge Liang. He therefore pretended to bring his five sons and thirty thousand troops to help Meng Huo fight. Meng Huo, Meng You and the chieftain Duosi thought reinforcements had come and held a banquet for Yang Feng and his sons. The banquet in camp was dull, so Yang Feng had the Nanman women who followed the army perform a sword-and-shield dance. Two of Yang Feng's sons offered wine to Meng Huo and Meng You, and at Yang Feng's shout they seized the two from their seats, while Yang Feng caught the chieftain Duosi and the women surrounded the banquet ground. Yang Feng handed them to Zhuge Liang, Duosi's Tulong Cave fell, and this was the fifth capture of Meng Huo. Yang Feng and his sons were granted ranks and titles by Zhuge Liang, and his cave troops were richly rewarded. They thanked him and left. The article notes the episode comes from chapter 89 of the novel.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Yang Feng (traditional form 楊鋒)[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Role: chief of the twenty-one caves of Yinye Cave among the Nanman[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: fictional character[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Shu Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/yang-feng-q10757585.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10761738", "type": "person", "title": "Jia Yingchun", "slug": "jia-yingchun-q10761738", "aliases": [ "贾迎春" ], "summary": "Jia Yingchun is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, a daughter of Jia She of the Rongguo house by a concubine, half-sister of Jia Lian, and a resident of Ziling Isle in the Grand View Garden. Gentle and kind but timid, she was married off by Jia She to settle a debt to the 'wolf of Zhongshan', Sun Shaozu, and died after ill-treatment.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10761738", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10761738" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "贾迎春（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%88%E8%BF%8E%E6%98%A5" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Jia Yingchun is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Jia Yingchun, and it is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. Her father is Jia She, the elder master of the Rongguo house. Wikidata describes her as a character of the novel and a daughter of Jia She, and the setting is the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position and character\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, she is a daughter of Jia She by a concubine, a half-sister of Jia Lian and an older cousin of Jia Baoyu. In the Grand View Garden she lives in the Zhuijin Tower on Ziling Isle, so her alias in the Begonia Poetry Club is Lingzhou. She is gentle and kind and also timid and weak, and is nicknamed Wooden Second. The article says the manuscripts differ on her birth: the Jiaxu copy says she was born to Jia She's former wife, the Russian copy to Jia She's wife, the Gengchen copy to Jia Zheng's former wife, the Jimao copy says she is Jia She's daughter raised by Jia Zheng as his own, and the Qixu copy says she was born to Jia She's concubine. Liu Xinwu holds that all these descriptions correspond to real-life models, but that the Jiaxu text fits the story best. The article also quotes what Lady Xing says to Yingchun in chapter 73 of the Qixu copy and infers from it that her mother was Jia She's concubine.[^zhwiki]\n\n## End and thought\n\nThe article says that Jia She later gave her in marriage to Sun Shaozu, the wolf of Zhongshan, to settle a debt, and that she died after abuse and humiliation, as told in chapter 109. It also treats her as one of the figures in the book who represent Daoist thought. In chapter 73, whenever a dispute arises she takes up the Taishang Ganying pian and reads it, leaving the commotion behind. It argues that she did not see the gap between plain Daoist truth and feudal society and only borrowed the idea of non-action, so that once the Grand View Garden, a symbol of an ideal world, was damaged, that thinking became the fuse of her tragedy.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Verse, song and maids\n\nThe article reproduces her fate verse, which says that the husband is a wolf of Zhongshan who is arrogant once he has his way, and that this willow-like girl from a golden chamber goes to the yellow millet dream within a year. It also lists the song Happy Enemies from the Dream of the Red Chamber suite, which calls Sun Shaozu a heartless beast and laments that her fair spirit drifted off in a year. Her lantern riddle has the abacus as its answer. Her maids are Siqi, Xiuju and Lian'er. The article contrasts Siqi's firm temper with Yingchun's weakness: when the Grand View Garden was searched, a keepsake and a note from her cousin Pan You'an were found among Siqi's things, she was driven out of the garden and later killed herself by striking a wall.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jia Yingchun, alias Lingzhou, nicknamed Wooden Second[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Relations: daughter of Jia She, half-sister of Jia Lian[^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/jia-yingchun-q10761738.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10761739", "type": "person", "title": "Jia Yuanchun", "slug": "jia-yuanchun-q10761739", "aliases": [ "贾元春" ], "summary": "Jia Yuanchun is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, a daughter of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang and the elder full sister of Jia Baoyu, named Yuanchun because she was born on the first day of the first month. After being chosen for the palace she is made Virtuous Consort, and the Jia house builds the Grand View Garden for her visit home. The last forty chapters have her die in the palace, with contradictory statements about her age.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10761739", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10761739" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "贾元春（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%88%E5%85%83%E6%98%A5" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Jia Yuanchun is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Jia Yuanchun, and it is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. She is a daughter of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang and the elder full sister of Jia Baoyu, and was named Yuanchun because she was born on the first day of the first month. Wikidata records her as a character of the novel, set in the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Her story\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Yuanchun taught Jia Baoyu to read when he was small and was later chosen for the palace. In chapter 16 the Jia house receives an imperial edict making her secretary of the Fengzao palace and Virtuous Consort. When the court later allows palace consorts to visit their families, the Jia house builds the Grand View Garden to prepare for her visit, and she personally gives names to many of its buildings. The article says that in the last forty chapters published by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan (the Cheng Jia edition), she dies in the palace of an illness after putting on weight, her mouth choked with phlegm, and is posthumously named Virtuous and Gentle Consort. In chapter 18, during her visit home, she chooses four plays, all tragedies; by the commentary of Zhiyan zhai they foreshadow the fall of the Jia house, the death of the consort, Zhen Baoyu's return of the jade and the death of Daiyu.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Contradictions about her age\n\nThe article points out that the book contradicts itself on her dates. Chapter 86 says she was born on the first day of the first month of a jiashen year, and chapter 95 says she died on the nineteenth of the twelfth month of a jiayin year at forty-three, but by the first statement she would be about thirty-three, and the later revised Cheng Yi edition changes it to thirty-one. It also notes that on the Cheng Jia text she would be twenty-five years older than Baoyu, while Lady Wang bore Baoyu at thirty-five, which would make her ten when Yuanchun was born, which is impossible. Liu Xinwu reads the song line about her fair spirit drifting away as hinting she was strangled in court intrigue, which the article says has no basis in the text.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Verse, riddle and name\n\nThe article gives her fate verse, with lines such as the pomegranate blossoms lighting up the palace and the tiger and hare meeting in a great dream, and lists the song Hate of Impermanence in the Dream of the Red Chamber suite, in which her life has gone to the underworld and she tells her parents in a dream to withdraw early. Her lantern riddle has the firecracker as its answer. Her maid is Baoqin. The article quotes Zhiyan zhai's remark that the names of the four sisters Yuanchun, Yingchun, Tanchun and Xichun sound together like the phrase meaning she should be sighed over.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jia Yuanchun, also called the Consort Yuan or the Virtuous Consort[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Relations: daughter of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang, elder full sister of Jia Baoyu[^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/jia-yuanchun-q10761739.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10761740", "type": "person", "title": "Jia Xichun", "slug": "jia-xichun-q10761740", "aliases": [ "贾惜春" ], "summary": "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.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10761740", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10761740" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "贾惜春（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%88%E6%83%9C%E6%98%A5" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "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]\n\n## Position and character\n\nAccording 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]\n\n## A few episodes\n\nThe 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]\n\n## Verse, song and riddle\n\nThe 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]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jia Xichun, alias Ouxie, also called the Fourth Young Lady[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Relations: daughter of Jia Jing, full sister of Jia Zhen[^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/jia-xichun-q10761740.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10761741", "type": "person", "title": "Jia Qiaojie", "slug": "jia-qiaojie-q10761741", "aliases": [ "贾巧姐" ], "summary": "Jia Qiaojie is one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling in Dream of the Red Chamber, the daughter of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian. Born on the seventh of the seventh month, the Qiqiao festival, she was named Qiaojie by Granny Liu. In the first eighty chapters she is a sickly child, and after the Jia house falls she is in danger and is rescued by Granny Liu.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10761741", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10761741" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "贾巧姐（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B3%88%E5%B7%A7%E5%A7%90" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Jia Qiaojie is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber and one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Jia Qiaojie, and it is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. She is the daughter of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, and Wikidata records the setting as the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Her naming and childhood\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, in the first eighty chapters by Cao Xueqin Qiaojie is still young, so her personality and traits are not clear. All the book tells us is that she is a sickly child and that Wang Xifeng asked the old, poor Granny Liu to name her in the hope of holding the illness down. Because she was born on the seventh of the seventh month, the Qiqiao festival, Granny Liu named her Qiaojie, meaning to fight poison with poison.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Several accounts of her fate\n\nThe article says that in Gao E's continuation, after the Jia house is ruined Qiaojie is nearly sold to a prince as a concubine, but Granny Liu rescues her at once. This is only a false alarm, a repayment for Wang Xifeng's help to Granny Liu long before, and Qiaojie is later married off, by Granny Liu's arrangement, to the son of a country landowner. Hongxue scholars, however, argue that she should have married Granny Liu's grandson Banr. The article says her verse and the Zhiyan zhai comments show that after the Jia house fell she was sold into a brothel by her cruel uncle and treacherous brother, who forgot kinship, and some time later Granny Liu rescued her out of loyalty, after which she married Banr and lived all her life as a village woman. The picture in the main register of the Twelve Beauties shows a beauty weaving at a lonely village inn, who is Qiaojie.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Verse and song\n\nThe article gives her fate verse, which says that when power fails there is no talk of nobility, that when the family is ruined there is no talk of kin, and that by chance she helped Mrs Liu and by luck met a benefactor. It also lists the song Leaving a Surplus of Blessings, which urges helping the needy and not to be like the cruel uncle and treacherous brother who forgot their own flesh and blood out of love of money.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jia Qiaojie, also called Qiaojie'er[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Role: daughter of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling[^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/jia-qiaojie-q10761741.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1076745", "type": "person", "title": "Lu Junyi", "slug": "lu-junyi-q1076745", "aliases": [ "卢俊义" ], "summary": "Lu Junyi is the deputy leader of the Liangshan marsh band in Water Margin, second only to Song Jiang, nicknamed the Jade Qilin. A rich man and master of spear and staff in Daming prefecture, he is lured up Liangshan by Wu Yong's scheme, and after the amnesty fights the Liao, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La, rising to pacification commissioner of Luzhou, and is poisoned with mercury by treacherous ministers.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1076745", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076745" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "卢俊义（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A2%E4%BF%8A%E4%B9%89" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lu Junyi is an important character in Water Margin. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Lu Junyi, and he is also called the Jade Qilin. It is his name in the book, so the heading stays the same. Wikidata records him as a character of the novel, set in the Song state, with the death year 1120.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, in Water Margin he is the deputy leader of the Liangshan marsh band, second only to Song Jiang. His family seat is Daming prefecture, the northern capital (now Daming in Hebei), where he is a rich man and a master of spear and staff known far and wide. He is tall, fair-faced and star-eyed, and imposing. The article says he is finally forced to join Liangshan against the court.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Going up to Liangshan\n\nThe article records that Song Jiang heard of his fame and wanted him to join. Wu Yong used a scheme of luring the tiger away from the mountain, going to Daming with Li Kui to trick Lu Junyi into traveling afar. Lu Junyi fell for it, packed up and left home to avoid disaster, and was captured passing Liangshan. He refused to join and Song Jiang did not force him but let him go home. Back in Daming he was betrayed by his steward Li Gu and his wife Lady Jia, who told the officials he was in league with bandits. He was jailed and sentenced to exile on Shamen Island. The guards Dong Chao and Xue Ba took a bribe from Li Gu to kill him in the wild, but his trusted servant Yan Qing saved him. He was soon caught again by soldiers and his sentence changed to death. When the Liangshan heroes learned of this they attacked Daming, captured Guan Sheng and Suo Chao, broke the city and freed him. Lu Junyi went home and killed Li Gu and Lady Jia, then formally joined Liangshan, and at Zengtou Market he took alive Shi Wengong, the killer of Chao Gai.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The contest for leadership and the campaigns\n\nThe article says that Song Jiang once wanted to follow Chao Gai's last wish and make Lu Junyi chief of the stronghold. The brothers would not agree and Lu Junyi declined, so they agreed that each would lead the same number of troops against Dongping and Dongchang prefectures and the first to break his city would be chief. Song Jiang captured Dong Ping by a trick and took Dongping. Lu Junyi was pinned down at Dongchang by Zhang Qing's flying stones, the two forces together could not take it, and only an advance by land and water from Liangshan beat Dongchang, which also settled Song Jiang as the leader and Lu Junyi as second. After accepting the amnesty with Song Jiang he campaigned against the Khitan, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Fang La, and rose to a martial-merit grandee and pacification commissioner of Luzhou.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Ending and assessment\n\nThe article records that after the wars the court made him pacification commissioner of Luzhou and deputy commander. Yan Qing urged him to resign and leave before the treacherous ministers could harm him, but he refused. Gao Qiu and Yang Jian then feared him and put mercury in the wine and food the emperor had granted him. After eating, he was in such pain that he could not ride, and he slipped into the Huai river at Sizhou and drowned. The article quotes Gong Kai's praise in the Song Jiang Thirty-Six Eulogies, which compares him to a white jade qilin, and Jin Shengtan's remark that Lu Junyi is written with great effort but still shows some dullness, like a drawn camel, huge but not handsome.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Lu Junyi, nicknamed the Jade Qilin, also called Squire Lu[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Home: Daming prefecture, the northern capital[^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song state[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/lu-junyi-q1076745.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10788075", "type": "person", "title": "Li Wan", "slug": "li-wan-q10788075", "aliases": [ "李纨" ], "summary": "Li Wan, courtesy name Gongcai, is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber and one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling in the main register. She is the wife of Jia Zhu, the eldest son of Jia Zheng. Widowed young, she raised her posthumous son Jia Lan, was kind and did not interfere much, was called the Great Bodhisattva, and served as head of the Begonia Poetry Club under the name Daoxiang Laonong.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10788075", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10788075" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "李纨（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%B4%88" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 9, "body": "Li Wan is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are Li Wan, in traditional characters in one form and simplified in the other, and the article gives her courtesy name as Gongcai. It is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. She is one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling in the main register. Wikidata records the setting as the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Family and marriage\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Li Wan came from an official family of Jinling. Her father, Li Shouzhong, was chancellor of the imperial academy and held that a woman without talent is a woman of virtue, so he did not much let his daughter study. He taught her works such as the Biographies of Exemplary Women and the Collection of Worthy Ladies so that she would know a few characters and remember a few virtuous women of past ages, and put more weight on needlework and womanly conduct, hence the name Li Wan and the courtesy name Gongcai. She married Jia Zhu, eldest son of Jia Zheng of the Rongguo house, who died of illness early and left a posthumous son, Jia Lan. She was widowed at seventeen or eighteen, kept strictly to her place and spoke and acted with care, so that her face became wasted. She knew only how to serve her elders and raise her son, and in public to keep her sisters-in-law company at needlework and reading. In the Jia house she was called Mrs Li, Zhu's daughter-in-law, or Zhu's Eldest Lady. The article says that because she had always been virtuous and kept her widowhood from youth, the Lady Dowager and Lady Wang respected her, and she also drew the largest monthly allowance in the garden, nominally ten taels of silver.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Temperament and conduct\n\nThe article says she was kind to servants and did not interfere much, so she was called the Great Bodhisattva. When Wang Xifeng was ill and recovering, she asked Li Wan, Jia Tanchun and Xue Baochai to run the Jia household, and the servants called them the three Taisui who guard the mountain. In chapter 7, when Aunt Xue had Zhou Rui's wife deliver palace flowers to most of the young ladies in the garden, Li Wan alone was passed over. In winter, when the sisters all wore scarlet wool-felt and feather satin cloaks, she wore a plain dark-blue woollen jacket, and Zhiyan zhai commented that it showed her nature. When Tanchun proposed the poetry club, Li Wan became its head with the name Daoxiang Laonong, and although she had the largest income in the garden she lived frugally and asked Wang Xifeng to be the supervising censor who paid for it. In chapter 45 she argues with Wang Xifeng, speaking up for Ping'er too, which shows a more emotional side and a tongue no less quick than Xifeng's. She is close to Ping'er and dislikes Miaoyu. The only complete poem by her is the Grand View Garden inscription written for Jia Yuanchun's visit. In chapter 63, at the flower-drawing game, she draws an old plum, a symbol of chastity.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Verse, song and ending\n\nThe article says her fate verse is the eleventh in the main register of the Twelve Beauties, with a picture of a pot of flourishing orchid and beside it a woman in phoenix crown and robe, and the poem says that peach and plum bear fruit in the spring wind but in the end none can compare to a pot of orchid. The matching song is The Late Glorious Years. The standard last forty chapters do not state her ending: after Lin Daiyu died she helped manage the funeral, and her son Jia Lan went to the capital with Baoyu for the examinations and in chapter 119 passed as the one hundred and thirtieth juren. The article says that readers speculate her end was a reward after hardship, or that Jia Lan rose in the world and then died suddenly, leaving her bereaved in old age.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Critical readings\n\nThe article notes that most studies approach Li Wan through the influence of feudal ritual on her character, calling her a type of asceticism or a living specimen of the three obediences and four virtues, while in 1997 Hu Wenwei praised her for holding to principle and so meeting a good end. Ou Lijuan argues one should not stop at the author's flat portrayal of her; her home at Daoxiang Village is planted with hundreds of red apricot trees, which suggests warmth and passion, while the design of green hills slanting across it suggests the restraint of ritual on her, so that she is a dormant volcano that is not fully extinct. Ji Xueyuan points out that her life in the garden shows much vitality, and that the division of tasks and the rules of the Begonia Poetry Club were her proposals.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Li Wan, courtesy name Gongcai, also called Zhu's Eldest Lady[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Role: wife of Jia Zhu, mother of Jia Lan, one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling[^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/li-wan-q10788075.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q108030125", "type": "person", "title": "Hei Fengguai", "slug": "hei-fengguai-q108030125", "aliases": [ "黑熊精" ], "summary": "The Black Bear Spirit, also called the Black Wind Demon, is a monster in Journey to the West who lives in a cave on Black Wind Mountain and wields a black-tasseled spear. He steals Tang Sanzang's brocade cassock and clashes with Sun Wukong, and is finally subdued by Sun Wukong and the bodhisattva Guanyin, who takes him on as a guardian of the mountain.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q108030125", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108030125" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "黑熊精（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%91%E7%86%8A%E7%B2%BE" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "The Black Bear Spirit is a character in Journey to the West. Wikidata records him as a character of the novel with the Chinese label Black Bear Spirit, other names such as the Bear Monster, and the English alias Black Wind Demon. This is a monster's title in the novel and not a verified personal name, so the heading is left as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the book\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia list of Journey to the West characters has a section on the Black Wind Monster (the Black Bear Spirit), to which this entry corresponds. According to that section, the Black Wind Monster lives in a cave on Black Wind Mountain and is a dark-skinned big man with a black-tasseled spear. Unlike ordinary monsters, he is rather good-natured and is friends with the elder Jinchi of the Guanyin Monastery. When he sees the monastery on fire, he rushes to help put it out, but on the way he spots Tang Sanzang's brocade cassock, conceives a wicked plan and steals it, and so clashes with Sun Wukong. In the end he is subdued by a trick of Sun Wukong and the bodhisattva Guanyin, and Guanyin takes him on as a guardian spirit of the mountain.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Companions\n\nThe same section says the scholar in white (a white snake spirit) and Lingxuzi (a gray wolf spirit) are friends of the Black Wind Monster, and both are killed by Sun Wukong.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Names: Black Bear Spirit, also called Black Wind Monster or Bear Monster[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: character of Journey to the West[^wikidata]\n- Dwelling: a cave on Black Wind Mountain[^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/hei-fengguai-q108030125.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10825805", "type": "person", "title": "Taiyi Zhenren", "slug": "taiyi-zhenren-q10825805", "aliases": [ "太乙救苦天尊" ], "summary": "Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, also called the Great Emperor of Green Splendor of the Eastern Pole, is a Daoist deity who lives in the Miaoyan palace of the Qinghua Changle realm and delivers suffering souls. He is pictured riding a nine-headed lion with a willow branch and purifying water, and appears in Journey to the West.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10825805", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10825805" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "太乙救苦天尊（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B9%99%E6%95%91%E8%8B%A6%E5%A4%A9%E5%B0%8A" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun is a major Daoist deity. The name is a divine title and not a person's name. Wikidata's Chinese label for this item is Taiyi Zhenren, described there as a character of Investiture of the Gods, which does not match the Chinese Wikipedia article title, so there is no single verifiable personal name and the heading stays as it was. The rest of this entry follows the Chinese Wikipedia article.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Titles and dwelling\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, he is also called the Great Emperor of Green Splendor of the Eastern Pole, the Heavenly Venerable Who Answers Cries to Relieve Suffering, the Supreme Emperor of the Nine Yang of Green Mystery, and the Heavenly Venerable Who Relieves Suffering in the Ten Directions. Daoist scriptures say he lives in the Miaoyan palace in the Qinghua Changle realm and leads suffering souls to rebirth, and that for those who have stored up merit, understood the Dao and perfected their practice he rides a chariot of nine lions and scatters the light of a hundred treasures to receive them as immortals in heaven. Because he is as merciful as a father and lives in the Miaoyan palace of the east, Daoism honors him as Supreme Emperor of Green Splendor of the Eastern Pole or Merciful Father of the Eastern Palace. The Taiyi Jiuku Hushen Miaojing says that in heaven he is called the Blessed God Taiyi, in the world the Great Merciful One, in hell the Emperor of the Sun, among the heterodox the Lion Bright King, and in the water palace the Emperor of Deep Pool. In danger on mountain or sea, one need only devoutly recite his name to be freed from sorrow and turn ill luck to good, hence he is the one who hears the voice and relieves suffering.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Origins\n\nThe article says the cult is related to the worship of the Eastern Sovereign Taiyi and the Eastern King Father popular in the state of Chu before the Qin, that it is hard to say when it took shape, but that it certainly existed in the Six Dynasties and perhaps as early as the Eastern Han. From the Tang to the early Song it also influenced Buddhism, for instance the practice of rites on the seventh and hundredth days for the dead in the Ten Kings Sutra copied by Zang Chuan in the early Tang, which comes from a Daoist scripture.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Images\n\nThe article describes several types of image. In the Daoist lord type he stands on lotuses in a halo of light, holding a willow branch and purifying water, with nine-headed lions at his sides spitting flame. The Shangqing Lingbao Dafa says he rides a nine-headed lion and takes the form of the Ten-Direction Relief Heavenly Venerable to deliver ghosts, and that the lion's roar can open the gates of hell. The willow branch and water are the healing potion of the world. The article says the earliest surviving stone image of the Relieving Suffering Venerable is niche 62 at the Xuanmiao temple in Anyue, Sichuan, cut in 730. There is also an imperial type in robes and crown, holding a jade tablet on a dragon throne, called the Great Emperor of Green Splendor. According to the Miaojing he has transformations as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, sometimes dwelling in heaven, descending among people or living in hell, as a youth or maiden, an emperor or sage, answering the need of each being.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Festivals and rites\n\nThe article records that his birthday is the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the day he attained the Dao is the eighth day of the eighth month, and that he descends the next day to relieve suffering. Under Emperor Zhenzong of the Song, the ninth day of the eighth month became his official birthday, called Yuancheng Festival. Large Daoist temples generally honor him, and ordinary people offer his image, tablet or incense at ancestor rites such as Qingming, Zhongyuan and Chongyang, or at rites of offering and deliverance. Rites for deliverance such as the Treasure Repentance for Crossing the Blood Lake, Lingbao Refining and the Nine Dark Lamp Rite take him as the chief deity. The article adds that, according to the Complete Collection of Ten Kings' Memorials, the Ten-Direction Relief Venerable also takes the form of the Ten Kings of the underworld so as to govern the spirits of the nine dark realms.[^zhwiki]\n\n## In literature\n\nThe article says that in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West the Venerable is portrayed as dignified and splendid. His mount, the lion Jiuling Yuansheng, came down to cause trouble for Tang Sanzang's journey, and Sun Wukong went to find the Venerable, who was seated high on a nine-colored lotus seat in a hundred million auspicious rays and came down to greet him.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Divine title: Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, also called the Great Emperor of Green Splendor of the Eastern Pole and others[^zhwiki]\n- Category: Daoist deity[^zhwiki]\n- Dwelling: Miaoyan palace in the Qinghua Changle realm[^zhwiki]\n- Wikidata's Chinese label: Taiyi Zhenren (differs from the article title)[^wikidata]", "url": "/people/taiyi-zhenren-q10825805.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q108419891", "type": "person", "title": "Jia Fu", "slug": "jia-fu-q108419891", "aliases": [ "贾敷" ], "summary": "Jia Fu is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, the eldest son of Jia Daihua of the Ningguo house and the elder brother of Jia Jing, who the book says died young. He is mentioned in chapter 2 as the eldest of the senior branch of the Ning house.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q108419891", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108419891" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "贾敷（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%BE%E6%95%B7" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 5, "body": "Jia Fu is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata's Chinese label is Jia Fu, in traditional characters in one form and simplified in the other. It records him as a character of the novel, set in the dynasty of the novel, and it is his name in the book, so the heading stays the same. Wikidata also records his father as Jia Daihua and his brother as Jia Jing.[^wikidata]\n\n## His place in the book\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia list of Dream of the Red Chamber characters places Jia Fu among the generation whose names carry the radical 攵, and describes him as the eldest of the senior branch of the Ning house, the eldest son of Jia Daihua and the elder brother of Jia Jing, who died young. His first appearance is in chapter 2. The same list says under Jia Daihua that his sons were Jia Fu and Jia Jing. The list records nothing more about him, so nothing further is added here.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Jia Fu (traditional form 賈敷)[^wikidata]\n- Family: Ningguo house, eldest son of Jia Daihua and elder brother of Jia Jing[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Fate: died young[^zhwiki]\n- First appearance: chapter 2[^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/jia-fu-q108419891.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10855421", "type": "person", "title": "Ge Ding", "slug": "ge-ding-q10855421", "aliases": [ "戈定" ], "summary": "Ge Ding is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from Donglai commandery in Qing province, a fellow townsman and subordinate officer of Taishi Ci. Sent by Taishi Ci into Hefei to set a fire, he was found out by Zhang Liao, captured by Li Dian, and beheaded in front of Zhang Liao's horse.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10855421", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10855421" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "戈定（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%88%E5%AE%9A" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Ge Ding is a fictional character in the chapter-novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Ge Ding, and Wikidata records him as a fictional character, a soldier, set in Han, so the heading stays the same.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Ge Ding comes from Donglai commandery in Qing province, and is a fellow townsman and subordinate officer of Taishi Ci under Sun Quan. His brother is the stable hand who feeds the horses under Zhang Liao, who is guarding Hefei for Cao Cao. On Taishi Ci's orders Ge Ding slips into Hefei, where Taishi Ci has him set fire to the stables so that an attack from inside and outside can take the city and kill Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao keeps calm, sees through the plan, and Li Dian captures Ge Ding and his brother. After learning the facts Zhang Liao has Ge Ding beheaded in front of his horse. Zhang Liao then sets a trap for Taishi Ci, who is badly wounded and dies after returning to camp. The article records nothing more about him.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Ge Ding[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: fictional character, soldier[^wikidata]\n- Home: Donglai commandery, Qing province[^zhwiki]\n- Allegiance: under Taishi Ci[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/ge-ding-q10855421.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10856201", "type": "person", "title": "Lu Xun", "slug": "lu-xun-q10856201", "aliases": [ "卢逊" ], "summary": "Lu Xun (the fictional one) is a character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Shu Han guard commander of Nanzheng pass. In chapter 116 he beats back the Wei vanguard under Xu Yi with Zhuge's repeating crossbows and makes Zhong Hui retreat, but is shot dead by Xun Kai while pursuing, and the pass then falls.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10856201", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10856201" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "卢逊（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A2%E9%80%8A" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lu Xun, the fictional character, appears in the chapter-novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label is Lu Xun, with the traditional form 盧遜, and it records him as a fictional character and Shu Han general, with a death year of 263. The heading therefore stays the same.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia list of fictional Three Kingdoms characters, Lu Xun appears in chapter 116 of the novel as the guard commander of Nanzheng pass in Shu Han, who meets the Wei army led by Zhong Hui. He lays an ambush and uses Zhuge's repeating crossbows, and beats the Wei vanguard Xu Yi at the wooden bridge in front of the pass. When Zhong Hui himself comes to look with a hundred or so armored men from his tent, Lu Xun has his soldiers fire the repeating crossbows in a volley, Zhong Hui turns his horse back, and the Wei army is badly beaten. Lu Xun leads troops across the bridge in pursuit, Zhong Hui whips his horse over the bridge and the horse falls into a pit, so Zhong Hui abandons it and goes on foot. Lu Xun catches up and thrusts a spear, but the Wei soldier Xun Kai turns and shoots an arrow that hits Lu Xun, who falls from his horse and dies. After Nanzheng pass falls, Zhong Hui promotes Xun Kai to guard commander and has Xu Yi tried and put to death. The list records nothing more about him.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Lu Xun (traditional form 盧遜)[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: fictional character, Shu Han general[^wikidata]\n- Died: 263, in the story[^wikidata]\n- Post: guard commander of Nanzheng pass[^zhwiki]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/lu-xun-q10856201.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "death": { "year": 263, "display": "263" }, "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1085823", "type": "person", "title": "Xuanzang", "slug": "xuanzang-q1085823", "aliases": [ "唐三藏" ], "summary": "Tang Sanzang, also called Tang Seng, is a main character of Journey to the West and the master of Sun Wukong, Zhu Wuneng, Sha Wujing and the White Dragon Horse. His prototype is the Tang monk Xuanzang. In the novel he is kind, merciful and firm of will, though sometimes pedantic, and after the pilgrimage is made the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1085823", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1085823" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "唐三藏（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90%E4%B8%89%E8%97%8F" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Tang Sanzang is a main character of Journey to the West. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Tang Sanzang, and other names are recorded, such as Tang Seng, Xuanzang, Chen Xuanzang and Jiangliu. The article explains that Sanzang fashi is a respectful term for a monk versed in the three collections of sutra, vinaya and abhidharma, and that calling him Tang Sanzang honors him as the Tripitaka master of the Tang state, which also avoids using his personal name, so it is not a personal name. No single personal name has been established for the figure in the novel, so the heading stays as it was.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Prototype and portrayal\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, the prototype of Tang Seng, Tang Sanzang, is the Tang monk Xuanzang, and the Song text Da Tang Sanzang qujing shihua also calls him Xuanzang. In the novel he is kind, merciful and firm of will, though sometimes he appears pedantic and unable to tell right from wrong. His treasures are the nine-ring staff and the brocade cassock given by the bodhisattva Guanyin, and at the end of the story he achieves the right fruit and is enfeoffed as the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit. The article also notes that among the sutras the historical Xuanzang translated, the Heart Sutra and the Medicine Buddha Sutra survive, that he traveled overland out of Xinjiang through the Pamirs to India, and that on his return he compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions from what he saw and heard at the order of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and that in the mid-1560s the Ming writer Wu Cheng'en turned such stories into the chapter-novel Journey to the West.[^zhwiki]\n\n## On the term Sanzang\n\nThe article stresses that today the public, not knowing Buddhism and influenced by Journey to the West, often wrongly takes Sanzang to be a title belonging to Xuanzang alone. In fact Sanzang fashi is a term of respect, also Sanzang bhikshu or Sanzang holy teacher or simply Sanzang, and to confine the title to a single person is mistaken. It lists other famous Tripitaka masters in history, such as An Shigao of the Eastern Han, Kumarajiva and Faxian of the Eastern Jin, Gunabhadra of the Liu Song, Siksananda, Yijing and Amoghavajra of the Tang, and says Lingxian is the only Tripitaka master in Japanese history.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name used: Tang Sanzang, also Tang Seng; prototype Xuanzang[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: novel character (Wikidata also records the name Chen Xuanzang)[^wikidata]\n- Role: bhikshu (monk)[^wikidata]\n- Birthplace according to Wikidata: Jiangzhou[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Tang[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/xuanzang-q1085823.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10869235", "type": "person", "title": "Qiu Ben", "slug": "qiu-ben-q10869235", "aliases": [ "丘本" ], "summary": "Qiu Ben is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms who serves as Deng Ai's army supervisor in Wei's campaign to destroy Shu Han. At Mianzhu he advises Deng Ai to write to Zhuge Zhan urging surrender, and when that is refused, to win by a surprise force instead.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10869235", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10869235" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "丘本（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%98%E6%9C%AC" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Qiu Ben is a fictional character in the chapter-novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Qiu Ben, and Wikidata records him as a fictional character and a general of Cao Wei, set in Great Wei, so the heading stays the same.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Qiu Ben serves as Deng Ai's army supervisor in Wei's war to destroy Shu Han, and the article notes that in the standard histories the army supervisor was Wei Guan. At Mianzhu, Qiu Ben advises Deng Ai to write to Zhuge Zhan urging him to surrender, and after the letter is refused he advises using a surprise force to win. The article gives chapter 117 of the novel as the source and records no home, dates or other deeds.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Qiu Ben[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Category: fictional character, Cao Wei general[^wikidata]\n- Post: army supervisor to Deng Ai[^zhwiki]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Great Wei[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/qiu-ben-q10869235.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10871701", "type": "person", "title": "Xia Jingui", "slug": "xia-jingui-q10871701", "aliases": [ "夏金桂" ], "summary": "Xia Jingui is the wife of Xue Pan in Dream of the Red Chamber, named for her family's osmanthus groves that supplied the palace. Spoiled by her widowed mother, she was overbearing, and after marrying into the Xue house she grew jealous of Xiangling, set her against Xue Pan and kept the household in uproar. In the Gao E continuation she tries to poison Xiangling and poisons herself instead.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10871701", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10871701" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "夏金桂（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E9%87%91%E6%A1%82" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Xia Jingui is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber and the wife of Xue Pan. Wikidata's Chinese label and the Chinese Wikipedia article title are both Xia Jingui, and she is also called Jingui. It is her name in the book, so the heading stays the same. Wikidata records the setting as the dynasty of the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Background and temper\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, her family planted osmanthus in quantity and supplied the palace, which is how she came by the name Jingui (golden osmanthus). Her father died early, and as an only child she was spoiled by her widowed mother, who treated her as a treasure. She grew up with a temper like the bandit Zhi, regarding herself as a bodhisattva and others as filth.[^zhwiki]\n\n## In the Xue house\n\nThe article says that after she married into the Xue family she saw that Xue Pan doted on Xiangling and became fiercely jealous. She repeatedly pushed Xiangling about, and used her maid Baochan to come between Xiangling and Xue Pan, so that Xiangling was beaten by him. She asked who had ever smelled any fragrance in a water-chestnut flower, and changed Xiangling's name to Qiuling. Domineering and willful, she did as she pleased in the Xue house, even trading words with her mother-in-law through a window, so that the household had no peace, and she also tried to seduce Xue Ke.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Ending\n\nThe article records that in the Gao E continuation Xia Jingui tries to poison Xiangling and instead poisons herself.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Name: Xia Jingui, also called Jingui[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Role: wife of Xue Pan[^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/xia-jingui-q10871701.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10875215", "type": "person", "title": "Taiyang Singjyun", "slug": "taiyang-singjyun-q10875215", "aliases": [ "太阳星君" ], "summary": "The Sun Star Lord is the Daoist god of the sun, named Yuyi, in charge of the sun and also called the Sun Emperor or Lord Sun. Folk belief often blends him with Mahavairocana and the Sunlight Bodhisattva, and in Fujian and Taiwan he is worshipped on the nineteenth of the third month, a date some link to remembrance of the Chongzhen emperor.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10875215", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10875215" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "太阳星君（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "The Sun Star Lord is the Daoist god of the sun. The name is a divine title and not a person's name: the Chinese Wikipedia article says his name is Yuyi, a god's name in Daoism, so there is no single verifiable personal name and the heading is left as it was. Wikidata records the Chinese label as Taiyang Xingjun and classes the item as a deity. This site files the entry under Journey to the West, but the Wikipedia article is about the Sun Star Lord of Daoism and folk religion.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Divine role and titles\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, the Sun Star Lord is named Yuyi, with a talisman character, and is the Daoist god of the sun, in charge of the sun. His full titles include the Sun Star Lord of Flaming Light of the Sun Palace and the Sun Emperor of the Sun Palace, and he is also called the Sun Emperor, the God of Great Brightness, Lord Sun, and the Sun Bodhisattva. The article says he also oversees the lords of the twenty-eight lunar mansions and the heavenly office that records stipends and lifespans, and inspects the merits and offenses of people and reports them to the Supreme Emperor, a record called the Register of the Sun Palace.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Origins and development of the cult\n\nThe article says that because the sun is a vital source of light and warmth, many peoples worship it. In China the sacrifice to the sun god is said to date from the time of Yan Di Shennong, and the ritual of sacrificing to the sun appeared by the Qin and Han at the latest, for instance in the Book of Rites, which records sacrificing to the sun in the eastern suburb. People often blend the Sun Star Lord with the Buddhist Mahavairocana, Amitabha and Sunlight Bodhisattva, or take the sun god as a manifestation of those figures. In Investiture of the Gods, the Shang loyal minister Bi Gan is enfeoffed as the Sun Star among the three hundred and sixty-five true gods. The article says old accounts give the winter solstice or the nineteenth of the eleventh month as the Sun Emperor's birthday, and the first of the second month as the day he inspects good and evil among people, but most almanacs now give the nineteenth of the third lunar month. Lian Heng's History of Taiwan holds that this date is actually tied to secret worship of the Ming Chongzhen emperor, since on the nineteenth of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (25 April 1644) Li Zicheng entered Yan, and the emperor hanged himself on Coal Hill.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Images and worship\n\nThe article describes the images as normally human, with a red face and red beard, holding a token of the sun. Some images show a figure with loose hair, a long staff in one hand and a Qiankun ring in the other, standing barefoot on a small hill, said to allude to how the Chongzhen emperor looked when he hanged himself. In Taiwan, the article says, several temples hold rites on the nineteenth of the third month, and in Tainan people used to set out incense tables and cakes called nine pigs and sixteen sheep. Three temples in Kaohsiung also take turns in worshipping Lord Sun. The article also lists temples in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore that honor the Sun Star Lord.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The True Scripture of the Sun Star Lord\n\nThe article says the True Scripture of the Sun Star Lord, also called the Sunlight Scripture, is a folk-religion text for worshipping the sun, of unknown authorship. According to elders in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, it was compiled by the third daughter of the Chongzhen emperor while living as a nun after the fall of the Ming, and some scholars think it may come from the Heaven and Earth Society, which sought to restore the Ming. Researchers point out that words in the scripture such as the repeated \"ming\" and \"Pearl Light Buddha\" hide a longing for the Ming, and Lin Hualing's study at the National University of Tainan holds that the scripture originally said the sun lord was born on the nineteenth of the eleventh month, and that elements of the Chongzhen emperor were added later until the date shifted to the nineteenth of the third.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Divine title: Sun Star Lord, named Yuyi[^zhwiki]\n- Other names: Sun Emperor, Lord Sun, God of Great Brightness and others[^zhwiki]\n- Category: deity (Wikidata)[^wikidata]\n- Birthday: most often given as the nineteenth of the third lunar month[^zhwiki]\n- Related on this site: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]]", "url": "/people/taiyang-singjyun-q10875215.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10878505", "type": "person", "title": "Qiao Lie", "slug": "qiao-lie-q10878505", "aliases": [ "乔冽" ], "summary": "Qiao Lie is a character in the novel Water Margin, a native of Jingyuan in Shaanxi. His religious name is Daoqing, so he is also called Qiao Daoqing, and he is known as the Illusion Demon Lord. He commands illusory arts that call wind and rain, serves the rebel Tian Hu, and is subdued by Gongsun Sheng.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10878505", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10878505" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "乔冽（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E5%86%BD" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Qiao Lie is a character in the novel Water Margin. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Qiao Lie, and Wikidata also lists the names Qiao Daoqing, Daoqing and the Illusion Demon Lord, so the heading stays the personal name. The story is set in the Song dynasty.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Background\n\nThe article says he was a native of Jingyuan in Shaanxi and took the religious name Daoqing, which is why he is also called Qiao Daoqing. At eight he travelled to Mount Kongtong, where an unusual master taught him illusory arts. From then on he could call wind and rain and ride the mist and clouds, and people called him the Illusion Demon Lord. Later he fell into a quarrel, beat a man so badly that he died, and was sought by the authorities. He fled home and changed his name to Quanzhen.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Under Tian Hu\n\nWhen Tian Hu rose in revolt, he drew Qiao Lie into his band. Skilled in illusions, Qiao Lie helped him seize prefectures and counties and became his chief assistant, with the title True Man of Spiritual Response Who Protects the Realm. When Song Jiang led troops against Tian Hu, Qiao Lie was subdued by Gongsun Sheng.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Afterwards\n\nThe article says that during the campaign against Wang Qing, his old friend Sun An, who had also served Tian Hu, died of illness. Qiao Lie then went back to the mountains with Gongsun Sheng and Ma Ling to practise the Way, and took the master Luo as his teacher.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Water Margin[^wikidata]\n- Other names: Qiao Daoqing, Daoqing, Illusion Demon Lord[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song dynasty[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/qiao-lie-q10878505.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10891226", "type": "person", "title": "Ruhua", "slug": "ruhua-q10891226", "aliases": [ "入画" ], "summary": "Ruhua is the senior maid of Jia Xichun in Dream of the Red Chamber. When the Grand View Garden was searched, items that Jia Zhen had given to her brother were found hidden by her. Xichun, afraid of being implicated, drove her away despite her pleas, and the book never mentions her fate again.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10891226", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10891226" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "入画（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A5%E7%94%BB" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Ruhua is a character in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber, the senior maid of Jia Xichun. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Ruhua, and Wikidata also lists the traditional-character form. The name is the maid's given name and there is no separate personal name, so the heading stays Ruhua. The story is set in the dynasty of the novel, and she is recorded as female.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Driven out of the garden\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, when the Grand View Garden was searched, the searchers found that Ruhua had privately kept things that Jia Zhen had given to her brother. Xichun feared being dragged into trouble and felt that she herself had lost face, so she ignored Ruhua's bitter pleading. Wang Xifeng and Madam You spoke up for the maid, but Xichun still drove her away by force. The article adds that the book never mentions her fate again.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Dream of the Red Chamber, maid of Xichun[^wikidata]\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/ruhua-q10891226.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q1089259", "type": "person", "title": "Jiutou Zhiji Jing", "slug": "jiutou-zhiji-jing-q1089259", "aliases": [ "九头雉鸡精" ], "summary": "The Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit (Jiutou Zhiji Jing) is one of the three demons of the Xuanyuan Mound sent by Nuwa to Zhaoge in Investiture of the Gods. She is a pheasant with nine heads that cultivated itself into a spirit. She enters the palace as Daji's sister Hu Ximei and helps bring about Bi Gan's death. After the Shang fall, Nuwa hands the three over to Jiang Ziya, and she is beheaded.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q1089259", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089259" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "九头雉鸡精（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E5%A4%B4%E9%9B%89%E9%B8%A1%E7%B2%BE" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "The Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit is a demon in the novel Investiture of the Gods. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled 九头雉鸡精, and Wikidata also lists the shorter name Pheasant Spirit. It is the name of a kind of spirit and not a personal name, so the heading stays Jiutou Zhiji Jing. The sources class her as a character of the novel and record her as female.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## The three demons of Xuanyuan Mound\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia list of characters says that after King Zhou wrote an impious poem at the temple of Nuwa, Nuwa concluded that the Shang had run out of fate. She sent three spirits from Xuanyuan Mound outside the south gate to bewitch the king in his palace, and told them not to harm living beings. The three were the Thousand-Year Fox Spirit, the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit and the Jade Pipa Spirit. The pheasant spirit is a nine-headed pheasant that had cultivated itself into a demon.[^zhwiki]\n\n## As Hu Ximei\n\nThe article says that after Jiang Ziya burned the pipa spirit, Daji wanted revenge. She had King Zhou agree to build the Deer Terrace by saying that immortals would descend once it was finished. To make good her lie, she had fox spirits pose as immortals visiting the terrace, but Bi Gan saw through them and all the foxes were burned to death. Daji then asked the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit for help. The pheasant spirit took the form of Daji's sister Hu Ximei and entered the palace to serve the king. Daji then feigned illness, and Hu Ximei declared that she needed Bi Gan's heart as medicine. Elsewhere the article says that Daji and the pheasant spirit together killed the vice-chancellor Bi Gan.[^zhwiki]\n\n## End\n\nAfter the Shang fell, Jiang Ziya ordered Yang Jian and others to hunt down the three. They fought as they fled and met Nuwa before Xuanyuan Mound. Because the three had ignored her order not to kill, Nuwa seized them herself and handed them to Jiang Ziya. The article says that the jade pipa spirit and the nine-headed pheasant spirit were both beheaded. The fox spirit prolonged her life for a time by bewitching the executioner, but Jiang Ziya finally put her to death with his own hands.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character of Investiture of the Gods[^wikidata]\n- Other name: Pheasant Spirit[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/jiutou-zhiji-jing-q1089259.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10916583", "type": "person", "title": "Si Xingfang", "slug": "si-xingfang-q10916583", "aliases": [ "司行方" ], "summary": "Si Xingfang is a character in the novel Water Margin, a subordinate of Fang Tianding, the crown prince of the rebel Fang La, and one of the four marshals of the southern realm with the title General Who Protects the State. He holds Hangzhou with Deng Yuanjue, Shi Bao and Li Tianrun, kills Lei Heng of Liangshan at Deqing, and is later defeated by Lu Junyi and Huyan Zhuo and drowns while pursuing across a stream.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10916583", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10916583" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "司行方（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B8%E8%A1%8C%E6%96%B9" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 4, "body": "Si Xingfang is a character in the classical novel Water Margin. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Si Xingfang, and the story is set in the Song dynasty, so the heading stays the name as given in the novel.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In Fang La's army\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says he is a subordinate of Fang Tianding, the crown prince of Fang La, and one of the four marshals of the southern realm, with the title General Who Protects the State. With the state preceptor Deng Yuanjue, called the Treasure Light Tathagata, Shi Bao, called General of the Southern Fire, and Li Tianrun, called General Who Guards the State, he commands twenty-four fighting generals and together they hold the Ninghai army at Hangzhou.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Fighting and end\n\nWhen Song Jiang wanted to take Hangzhou, Si Xingfang led Xue Dounan, Huang Ai, Xu Bai and Mi Quan to relieve Deqing county, where he killed Lei Heng, the Winged Tiger and one of the Liangshan generals of the Heavenly Spirits, in single combat. He was later beaten by troops under Lu Junyi, Huyan Zhuo and others, and drowned as he chased across a stream.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Water Margin[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song dynasty[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/si-xingfang-q10916583.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10927869", "type": "person", "title": "Tuxingsun", "slug": "tuxingsun-q10927869", "aliases": [ "土行孙" ], "summary": "Tuxingsun is a disciple of Judge Liusun in Investiture of the Gods, no more than four chi tall, who can travel a thousand li a day underground. Egged on by Shen Gongbao, he steals his master's binding rope, becomes a subordinate of Deng Jiugong, marries Deng Chanyu, and later goes over to the Zhou. At Mianchi he meets Zhang Kui, who is better at underground travel, and is killed, later becoming the Earth Mansion star.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10927869", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10927869" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "土行孙（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E8%A1%8C%E5%AD%99" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Tuxingsun is a character in Investiture of the Gods. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled 土行孙, and Wikidata also lists the traditional-character form. It is a name from the novel, so the heading stays Tuxingsun. He is recorded as male.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Background and leaving the mountain\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia list of characters says he is a disciple of Judge Liusun, no more than four chi tall and unremarkable in looks, but able to travel underground, covering a thousand li in a day. Although he belongs to the Chan school, Shen Gongbao egged him on, and he stole his master's binding rope and elixirs and left the mountain to serve as a subordinate of Deng Jiugong at Sanshan Pass. Deng Jiugong, seeing that he did not look like much, made him only a grain supervisor, and began to use him fully only after he and his daughter had been beaten by the Zhou camp.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Under Deng Jiugong\n\nThe article says Tuxingsun used an iron bar, struck at his opponents' lower bodies by surprise through underground travel, and then caught them with the binding rope. After he captured Nezha and Huang Tianhua, Deng Jiugong, flushed with wine at a banquet, promised him his daughter Deng Chanyu. Yang Jian saw through his magic tool and asked Judge Liusun to come down the mountain and subdue him, and Tuxingsun had to go over to the Zhou. Jiang Ziya then planned things so that his wife Deng Chanyu and his father-in-law Deng Jiugong also joined the Zhou camp.[^zhwiki]\n\n## With the Zhou and his end\n\nAmong the Zhou, Tuxingsun still excelled through underground travel. He fought hard against Zheng Lun, Ma Yuan and others and slipped into the enemy camp to rescue Huang Tianlu when he was taken, though once, after failing in an attempt to steal Yu Yuan's mount, he was caught and nearly beheaded by Jiang Ziya. Advancing to Mianchi county, he met the commander Zhang Kui, who was more skilled in underground travel than he was, and he was killed for being outmatched. He was finally invested as the Earth Mansion star.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character of Investiture of the Gods[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/tuxingsun-q10927869.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10932568", "type": "person", "title": "Duobao Daoren", "slug": "duobao-daoren-q10932568", "aliases": [ "多宝道人" ], "summary": "Duobao Daoren (Daoist of Many Treasures) is a senior disciple of the Heavenly Teacher Tongtian in Investiture of the Gods, listed with Jinling Shengmu, Wudang Shengmu and Guiling Shengmu. Tongtian gives him four swords to set up the Zhuxian formation, but Taishang Laojun sweeps him away with a wind-and-fire cushion. His disciple is Huoling Shengmu.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10932568", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10932568" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "多宝道人（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A%E5%AE%9D%E9%81%93%E4%BA%BA" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Duobao Daoren is a character in Investiture of the Gods. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Duobao Daoren. It is his Daoist name, and the book gives no other personal name, so the heading stays Duobao Daoren. He is recorded as male.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Place in the Jie school\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia list of characters places him under the disciples of the Heavenly Teacher Tongtian, together with Jinling Shengmu, Wudang Shengmu (also written Wudang Shengmu) and Guiling Shengmu, as the four senior disciples of the earlier generation.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The Zhuxian formation\n\nThe article says that after Guang Chengzi killed Huoling Shengmu at Jiameng Pass and visited the Biyou Palace three times, Tongtian gave Duobao Daoren four swords and had him set up the Zhuxian formation. Taishang Laojun swept him away with a wind-and-fire cushion.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Disciples and fellows\n\nThe list also records Huoling Shengmu as his disciple. She has the Golden Mist Crown, burned the Zhou camp with three thousand fire-dragon soldiers, and was killed by Guang Chengzi with the Fantian seal, which set off the full confrontation between the Chan and Jie schools, and she was afterwards invested as the Fire Mansion star. Among those listed with him, Jinling Shengmu fought the Chan immortals in the Wanxian formation and was killed by Randeng Daoren with the Dinghai pearl, and was made Doumu Yuanjun. Wudang Shengmu left early when the tide turned. Guiling Shengmu was struck back into a tortoise by Jieyin Daoren's prayer beads and then drained to an empty shell by mosquitoes released by the White Lotus Boy.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character of Investiture of the Gods[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/duobao-daoren-q10932568.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10940503", "type": "person", "title": "Tenno taitei", "slug": "tenno-taitei-q10940503", "aliases": [ "天皇大帝" ], "summary": "Tianhuang Dadi, in full the Supreme Emperor of the Curved Array's Upper Palace, also called the Gouchen Emperor, is one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism and the lord of the Tianhuang star. He is the eldest son of Doumu Yuanjun and the elder brother of the Ziwei Emperor. He assists the Jade Emperor in ruling heaven, earth and humanity and presides over war, and his Curved Array star is linked to the fortunes of earthly emperors.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10940503", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10940503" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "天皇大帝（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9A%87%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%9D" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 4, "body": "Tianhuang Dadi is a deity of ancient Chinese star worship and of Daoism. Wikidata classes him as a deity and lists the other names Gouchen Emperor and Tianhuang Emperor, and the Chinese Wikipedia article is titled Tianhuang Dadi. It is a divine title, not a personal name, so the heading stays the original title.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In Daoism\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says that Tianhuang Dadi, in full the Supreme Emperor of the Curved Array's Upper Palace, also called the Gouchen Emperor, is the lord of the Tianhuang star, one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism, the eldest son of Doumu Yuanjun and the elder brother of the Ziwei Emperor of the north pole. He assists the Jade Emperor in governing the three powers of heaven, earth and humanity, presides over the affairs of war on earth, including all arms and fighting, and also over the change of regimes and the choosing of worthy rulers. In Chinese astrology, the Curved Array star to which he belongs, like the Ziwei star, stands for the fortunes of earthly emperors. Like the Ziwei Emperor, he comes from the ancient worship of the stars. The article quotes the Great Rite of the Numinous Treasure of Highest Clarity, which says that to the left of the pole star's throne are four stars that curve together like a hook and are called the Curved Array, and that the large star centered below them is Tianhuang Dadi. It also says that in Taiwan he has no temples of his own, and is usually enshrined as a companion deity of Doumu Yuanjun or together with the other Four or Six Sovereigns.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Old texts and the Confucian view\n\nThe article quotes the Treatise on Astronomy in the Book of Jin, which says that the six stars of the Curved Array are all in the Ziwei Palace, that the star in its mouth is called Tianhuang Dadi, and that his divine name is Yaopobao, who rules the host of spirits and holds the chart of the myriad gods. It also notes that on the Rites' sentence about sacrificing to the August Heaven, Zheng Xuan took Tianhuang Dadi to be Yaopobao, and that the Old Book of Tang says the August Heaven worshipped at the round mound was the polar star Yaopobao.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The stars\n\nThe article says that the Curved Array is an ancient Chinese star group near the north celestial pole made up of six stars, four of which lie in Ursa Minor and two in Cepheus in Western astronomy. Gouchen One is Alpha Ursae Minoris, the pole star. The six stars are bent like a hook and were once regarded as the Yellow Emperor's rear palace and the heavenly emperor's principal consort.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Category: deity, associated with the Curved Array star group[^wikidata]\n- Other names: Gouchen Emperor, Tianhuang (deity)[^wikidata]\n- Work linked on this entry: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]]", "url": "/people/tenno-taitei-q10940503.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Journey to the West", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "mythological figure" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10943581", "type": "person", "title": "Queen Consort Jiang", "slug": "queen-consort-jiang-q10943581", "aliases": [ "姜王后" ], "summary": "Queen Consort Jiang is the first queen of King Zhou of Shang in Investiture of the Gods and the earlier tale of King Wu's Attack on Zhou. She is the daughter of Jiang Huanchu, Lord of the Eastern Marches, and the mother of the crown princes Yin Jiao and Yin Hong. Framed by Daji, she is demoted and put into the cold palace, is restored, and then dies at Daji's hands, afterwards becoming the Taiyin star. The sources give no personal name.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10943581", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10943581" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "姜王后（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9C%E7%8E%8B%E5%90%8E" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 7, "body": "Queen Consort Jiang is the queen of King Zhou of Shang in the Song-era tale King Wu's Attack on Zhou and in the Ming novel Investiture of the Gods. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Queen Consort Jiang, and Wikidata also lists forms such as Queen Jiang and Empress Jiang. There is only a surname and the title of queen, and no personal name, so the heading stays Queen Consort Jiang. She is set in the Shang dynasty and recorded as female.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Identity\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says she is the first queen King Zhou invested, the daughter of Jiang Huanchu, Lord of the Eastern Marches, and the mother of his two sons Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, and the mortal enemy of Daji. She was exceptionally beautiful. When Daji was first chosen for the palace and honored as noble consort, she did not know Lady Jiang, and only after a few months did they become acquainted. Two years later Lady Jiang was made queen, which aroused Daji's jealousy, and Daji set a series of plots against her.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Demotion and restoration\n\nThe article says that after she was framed, King Zhou demoted her to consort and put her in the cold palace. Daji rose in favor while Lady Jiang stayed alone in the cold palace. Her sons Yin Jiao and Yin Hong told the king everything, but he believed Daji's slanders and, instead of heeding his sons, had both crown princes beaten with staves. Two months later Lady Yin, wife of Li Jing, praised Lady Jiang's virtues before the king, who then released her, and that night he made her queen again.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Cause of death\n\nThe article writes that once, tipsy with wine, Daji went out in disguise with the king, and on returning two hours later the noble consort Su had the queen beaten thirty strokes and put into the cold palace again. To prove she had done nothing wrong, the queen sent a message by pigeon to Lady Yin. Lady Yin came and found the queen gouging out her own eyes. She tried to stop her, but the queen was already dead. After that the king made Daji queen. The queen's two sons, Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, disliked Daji, and Daji slandered them to the king and had them killed. The article adds that after her death the queen was invested as the Taiyin star among the regular gods of the stars.[^zhwiki]\n\n## On screen\n\nThe article lists a number of actresses who played Queen Jiang or Empress Jiang in various screen adaptations, for example Lü Shan in the TVB series Fengshen Bang and Yuan Quan in the film Creation of the Gods I.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: first queen of King Zhou of Shang in Investiture of the Gods[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Shang dynasty[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q1336310|Investiture of the Gods]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/queen-consort-jiang-q10943581.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Investiture of the Gods", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10944892", "type": "person", "title": "Sun Shaozu", "slug": "sun-shaozu-q10944892", "aliases": [ "孙绍祖" ], "summary": "Sun Shaozu is the husband of Jia Yingchun in Dream of the Red Chamber, nicknamed the Wolf of Zhongshan. He is from Datong prefecture in Shanxi, descended from army officers, and was once a protege of the Ning and Rong houses. Coarse and vile, he loves women, gambling and drink, and he abuses Yingchun until she dies. After the Jia family's property is seized, he writes to Jia Zheng demanding money that Jia She owed him.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10944892", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10944892" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "孙绍祖（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%99%E7%BB%8D%E7%A5%96" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Sun Shaozu is a character in the classical Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, nicknamed the Wolf of Zhongshan. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Sun Shaozu, and Wikidata also lists the traditional-character form. It is the character's name in the novel, so the heading stays Sun Shaozu. The story is set in the dynasty of the novel, and he is recorded as male.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the story\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says that Sun Shaozu is from Datong prefecture in Shanxi, descended from army officers, and was at the time a protege of the Ning and Rong houses. His wife is Jia Yingchun, one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. He is coarse and extremely vile, loves women, gambling and drink, and has abused almost all the wives and maids in his household. When Jia Yingchun first came home for a short stay she was already in tears. Jia Baoyu asked his father Jia Zheng to let her stay in the Grand View Garden. Jia Zheng and Lady Wang were reluctant, but by the rules of a great household they did not keep her. In the end Yingchun died of Sun Shaozu's cruelty. After the Jia house was raided, he also wrote to Jia Zheng, saying that Jia She had once owed him money and demanding that Jia Zheng repay it.[^zhwiki]\n\n## How he is written\n\nThe article says that Cao Xueqin never lets Sun Shaozu appear in person in the book. By the method of powdering the back, he makes Sun Shaozu's ungrateful, cruel, shameless and kick-them-when-down character stand out through the accounts of Jia Yingchun and others.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character of Dream of the Red Chamber, husband of Yingchun[^wikidata]\n- Nickname: Wolf of Zhongshan[^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/sun-shaozu-q10944892.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10952228", "type": "person", "title": "Su Yuanjing", "slug": "su-yuanjing-q10952228", "aliases": [ "宿元景" ], "summary": "Su Yuanjing is a grand commandant of the court in the novel Water Margin, who fits a prophecy of the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens. Honest, loyal and upright, he strongly favors amnesty for Liangshan. The court sends edicts three times, and only the third, carried by him, succeeds. The Liangshan heroes also rely on his protection whenever they fall into danger.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10952228", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10952228" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "宿元景（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%BF%E5%85%83%E6%99%AF" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Su Yuanjing is a character in the classical novel Water Margin. Wikidata records him as male and as a politician, and lists the form of address Grand Commandant Su. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Su Yuanjing, and the story is set in the Song dynasty, so the heading stays Su Yuanjing.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## His place in the novel\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, he is the grand commandant of the court and fits the prophecy of the Mysterious Lady. When Shi Jin and Lu Zhishen were trapped in Huazhou, he happened to be on an imperial mission to offer incense, which let Wu Yong trick the golden bells into place and take the city.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Support for amnesty\n\nThe article says he is honest, loyal and upright, and strongly favors amnesty for the outlaws. The court sent down edicts three times, and only the third succeeded, with him as envoy. Whenever the Liangshan heroes fell into repeated danger, it was his protection that kept their situation safe.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Water Margin[^wikidata]\n- Form of address: Grand Commandant Su[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song dynasty[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/su-yuanjing-q10952228.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10955099", "type": "person", "title": "Ning Sui", "slug": "ning-sui-q10955099", "aliases": [ "寗随" ], "summary": "Ning Sui is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Shu Han general serving as Jiang Wei's deputy. In the Wei conquest of Shu, the Wei general Zhuge Xu holds the Yinping bridgehead to cut off Jiang Wei's retreat, and Ning Sui proposes striking what the enemy must rescue: Jiang Wei should feign an attack on Yongzhou to draw Zhuge Xu back.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10955099", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10955099" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "寗随（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%97%E9%9A%A8" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Ning Sui is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and a general of Shu Han. Wikidata writes his Chinese name with the traditional form, simplified as 宁随, and also lists the variant spelling 甯隨. The Chinese Wikipedia article is titled the same, so the heading stays the name as given in the novel. The story is set in Shu Han and he is recorded as male.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## In the novel\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says that some editions write the surname with a variant character pronounced the same as the common Ning, and that in the novel he is Jiang Wei's deputy. In the Wei conquest of Shu, the Wei general Zhuge Xu camped at the Yinping bridgehead and cut off Jiang Wei's retreat. Ning Sui advised Jiang Wei to strike what the enemy must rescue, and to feign an attack on Yongzhou so that Zhuge Xu would turn back to save it. Zhuge Xu fell for it and, fearing for his rear, broke camp and withdrew. When he later saw what Jiang Wei intended, he at once turned back to block him, but he was a step too late, and led his troops to Jiange to find Zhong Hui. This episode is in chapter 117 of the novel.[^zhwiki]\n\n## A further remark in the article\n\nThe article's section on related works has one sentence saying that in the Jiang Wei biography of the Records of the Three Kingdoms he is the new identity of Ma Su, who died in prison after the loss of Jieting, and that he helped the northern campaigns as Jiang Wei's adviser. The sentence is unclear and gives no basis, so it is not adopted here and is noted only because the article says it.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: fictional character of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, general of Shu Han[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: Shu Han[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70806|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/ning-sui-q10955099.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q10959991", "type": "person", "title": "Lin Hongyu", "slug": "xiaohong-q10959991", "aliases": [ "小红" ], "summary": "Lin Hongyu is a maid of the Rongguo house in Dream of the Red Chamber. Because her name clashed with those of Daiyu and Baoyu, she came to be called Xiaohong or Hong'er. She is the daughter of Lin Zhixiao, the second steward of the Rong house, begins with rough tasks in Yihong Court, and is later taken by Wang Xifeng to run errands. She and Jia Yun like each other, and the commentary hints that she may play an important part in the lost chapters after the eightieth.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q10959991", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10959991" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "小红（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E7%BA%A2" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lin Hongyu is a character in the Qing novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata records her birth name as Lin Hongyu and lists the English alias Lin Hongyu, and the Chinese Wikipedia article also takes Lin Hongyu as her name, with Xiaohong and Hong'er as later forms, so the heading is changed to her full name. She is a maid of the Rongguo house, set in the dynasty of the novel, and recorded as female.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position and the change of name\n\nThe Chinese Wikipedia article says she is seventeen when she first appears, \"clean and pretty\", and that her family have been servants of the Rongguo house for generations. Her father is Lin Zhixiao, the second steward of the Rong house. When the Grand View Garden was finished she was assigned to Yihong Court. Later Yuanchun ordered Baoyu, Daiyu, Baochai and others to move into the garden, and Baoyu took up residence in Yihong Court. Because her name clashed with those of Daiyu and Baoyu, Hongyu came to be called Xiaohong or Hong'er. In Yihong Court her place is low. She carries water, waters flowers, feeds birds and lights stoves, and has no standing to wait on Baoyu directly. Once, when no maid was in the room, she went in to pour Baoyu tea and Qiuwen spat at her face and scolded her as unworthy of passing tea and water. Disappointed in her prospects, she sees through the world and sighs that a thousand-mile awning must come down and every banquet must end.[^zhwiki]\n\n## With Wang Xifeng\n\nThe article says that on the Festival of Grain in Ear, when Wang Xifeng toured the garden without her own maid, she had Hongyu run an errand. She liked how capable Hongyu was and how crisply she spoke, and nearly took her as a goddaughter, which was prevented only because Hongyu's mother was already Xifeng's goddaughter and the generations did not fit. Later she asked Baoyu to give Hongyu to her. But Xiaohong was not given much responsibility there either, and appears only three more times in the first eighty chapters.[^zhwiki]\n\n## With Jia Yun\n\nThe article says that Hongyu and Jia Yun, from a collateral branch of the Jia clan, like each other, and their story is summed up as the foolish girl who loses a handkerchief and brings on longing. Jia Yun, keeping an appointment with Baoyu, waited in the outer study and met Hongyu, and asked her to pass on a message. The next day she could not find her handkerchief and dreamed Jia Yun had picked it up. Later, when Baoyu was bewitched and Jia Yun kept watch with servants day and night, Hongyu saw that her lost handkerchief seemed to be in his hands. When the little maid Zhuier led Jia Yun to Yihong Court, Hongyu asked Zhuier to help look for the handkerchief. Jia Yun said he had found one, but gave Zhuier his own handkerchief to pass to Hongyu. She took it and falsely said it was hers, and gave Zhuier another to pass to Jia Yun in thanks.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The lost manuscript and the last forty chapters\n\nThe article says that, according to the commentary of Zhiyan Zhai, the lost chapters after the eightieth contain episodes such as the confiscation and the Temple of the Prison God, in which Hongyu is active and an important positive character, directly helping Baoyu. The scholar Song Qi guesses that during the confiscation she served Xifeng faithfully, and that when Xifeng and Baoyu were briefly held in the temple she and Jia Yun brought food and clothing in their hour of need. Shen Zhijun guesses that she reached outlaws such as Ni Er through Jia Yun to try to save them, and died for being drawn into Baoyu's trouble. As to her love with Jia Yun, Song Qi thinks they would marry, while Shen Zhijun thinks it may end in tragedy like that of Baoyu and Daiyu. These are all conjecture. In the Cheng Jia edition compiled by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, in the last forty chapters, Xiaohong serves Wang Xifeng until her death, appears little, and in chapter 88 has a flirtatious exchange with Jia Yun.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Assessments\n\nThe article says opinions on Xiaohong are polarized among characters, commentators and researchers. In the book Qingwen, Qiuwen and Bihen of Yihong Court push her aside and sneer at her wish to climb higher, while Wang Xifeng likes her crisp speech and quick work. Zhiyan Zhai calls her a sly and wicked maid, while Jihu Sou, who saw the draft of the Prison God Temple, defends her. Some see the Xiaohong of the first eighty chapters as an opportunist who flatters and schemes to climb, while some scholars admire her and Jia Yun for their ambition and effort.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Birth name: Lin Hongyu[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n- Other names: Xiaohong, Hong'er, Hongyu[^wikidata]\n- Description: character in Dream of the Red Chamber, maid of the Rongguo house[^wikidata]\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/xiaohong-q10959991.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q11039789", "type": "person", "title": "Lady You", "slug": "lady-you-q11039789", "aliases": [ "尤氏" ], "summary": "Lady You is the wife of Jia Zhen and the legal mother of Jia Rong in Dream of the Red Chamber, the mistress who runs the Ningguo house, described as a gourd with its mouth sawn off. When her daughter-in-law Qin Keqing died she fell ill and Jia Zhen asked Wang Xifeng of the Rong house to manage the household. She tried hard to stop the marriage of You Erjie but failed. The sources give no personal name.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q11039789", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11039789" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "尤氏 (红楼梦)（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%A4%E6%B0%8F_(%E7%BA%A2%E6%A5%BC%E6%A2%A6)" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 3, "body": "Lady You is a character in the classical Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber and the wife of Jia Zhen. Both Wikidata and the Chinese Wikipedia article are titled Lady You, and Wikidata also lists forms of address such as Eldest Sister You, Zhen's Sister-in-law and Zhen's Wife. There is only a surname and the suffix for a married woman, and no personal name, so the heading stays Lady You. The story is set in the dynasty of the novel, and she is recorded as female.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Position and family\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, she is Jia Zhen's wife and the legal mother of Jia Rong. Her stepmother is the elder woman You, and her two half-sisters are You Erjie and You Sanjie. She is the mistress who runs the Ningguo house, and her character is described as a gourd with its mouth sawn off, that is, one who keeps silent.[^zhwiki]\n\n## In the story\n\nThe article says that when her daughter-in-law Qin Keqing died, she was ill and could not manage the household, so Jia Zhen asked Wang Xifeng of the Rong house to take over. She tried hard to stop the marriage of You Erjie, but did not succeed. Later, when Wang Xifeng found that Jia Lian had secretly married You Erjie, she made a scene in the Ningguo house, and Lady You, at a loss, could only let her go on.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Dream of the Red Chamber, wife of Jia Zhen[^wikidata]\n- Other forms of address: Eldest Sister You, Zhen's Sister-in-law, Zhen's Wife[^wikidata]\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/lady-you-q11039789.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Dream of the Red Chamber", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" }, { "id": "person_cn_q11046726", "type": "person", "title": "Wang Jin", "slug": "wang-jin-q11046726", "aliases": [ "王进" ], "summary": "Wang Jin is the arms instructor of the eight-hundred-thousand imperial guards at Dongjing in the novel Water Margin, skilled in all eighteen weapons and above all in the staff. Having offended the grand commandant Gao Qiu, he flees by night with his mother, teaches and takes Shi Jin as a pupil at the Shi estate, then goes on to Yan'an, after which he does not appear in the book. The Chinese Wikipedia article says a historical person of this name also existed.", "status": "published", "categories": [ "category-literature" ], "tags": [ "tag-fictional-character", "tag-classics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata Q11046726", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11046726" }, { "id": "zhwiki", "title": "王进 (宋朝)（维基百科）", "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E9%80%B2_(%E5%AE%8B%E6%9C%9D)" } ], "createdAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedAt": "2026-10-25", "updatedBy": "user:admin", "revision": 5, "body": "Wang Jin is a character in the classical novel Water Margin. Wikidata writes the Chinese name in traditional characters, and the Chinese Wikipedia article is titled Wang Jin (Song dynasty), so the heading stays the personal name. The story is set in the Song dynasty, and he is recorded as male.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]\n\n## Appearance\n\nAccording to the Chinese Wikipedia article, Wang Jin is first mentioned in chapter two of the book, titled Instructor Wang Secretly Goes to Yan'an and the Nine-Dragon Shi Jin Makes Trouble at the Shi Estate. He is the instructor of the eight-hundred-thousand imperial guards at Dongjing and Bianliang, a master of all eighteen weapons and above all of the staff. When Gao Qiu took office as grand commandant, he invited the whole court to a feast, and the officials, afraid of his power, all attended. Only Wang Jin, who was gravely ill, could not come. Gao Qiu had him carried from his sickbed and wanted to give him twenty blows, then found that the man who had once humbled him in the street when he was a ruffian was Wang Jin's father. With old and new grudges he wanted to kill Wang Jin, and only the pleas of civil and military officers saved him from punishment.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Flight and the pupil\n\nThe article says Wang Jin, knowing he had offended a petty man, deceived the guards who attended him by saying that he would fulfil a vow and be first to burn incense, and sent them to the Dongyue temple to arrange offerings. In fact he left his post and fled Dongjing by night with his mother toward Yan'an. On the way he stayed at the Shi estate, where old Shi received him warmly. One day he saw Shi Jin practising with a staff and could not help pointing out its flaws. The proud young Shi Jin was angry and demanded a bout, but was easily beaten, and realized that this man was far beyond himself and his former teachers, and hurried to take him as master. To repay the Shi family's kindness, Wang Jin gladly agreed. Half a year later, when Shi Jin had mastered all he knew, Wang Jin took leave of the Shis, and although they urged him to stay he insisted on going so as not to draw them into his trouble with Gao Qiu.[^zhwiki]\n\n## End\n\nThe article says that after Shi Jin killed officials and left home, he hoped to find Wang Jin, and with the help of Lu Zhishen, who had some contacts through his work, learned that Wang Jin had gone to Yan'an to join the elder Marshal Zhong. But when Shi Jin reached Yan'an he still could not find him, and no one there knew where he was. After that the name Wang Jin never appears again in the book. Later film and television adaptations either have him live under an assumed name or already dead.[^zhwiki]\n\n## The historical Wang Jin\n\nThe article says that Northern Song records contain this account: a guard officer named Wang Jin offended a high official in the capital and fled to the old acquaintance of the Younger Zhong's headquarters in Yan'an to defend the border. In the northwest he led troops in small battles with the Western Xia and won them all. He then joined the headquarters of Zhong Shizhong and Zhong Shidao in Hebei as a vanguard, and died fighting beside Zhong Shizhong in the later battle at Taiyuan. The article notes that these records do not say he was an instructor or name Gao Qiu as the official he offended.[^zhwiki]\n\n## Basic facts\n\n- Description: character in Water Margin, instructor of the eight-hundred-thousand imperial guards[^wikidata]\n- Setting recorded on this entry: the Song dynasty[^wikidata]\n- Appears in: [[work_cn_q70827|Water Margin]][^zhwiki]", "url": "/people/wang-jin-q11046726.html", "lang": "en", "availableLangs": [ "zh", "en" ], "disambiguation": "Character in Water Margin", "isFictional": true, "personCategory": "literary character" } ], "lang": "en", "pagination": { "page": 2, "pageSize": 50, "total": 1077, "pageCount": 22, "prevUrl": "/en/tags/classics.json?tag=tag-classics", "nextUrl": "/en/tags/classics-3.json?tag=tag-classics" } }