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Marshal Heavenly Mugwort
Marshal Heavenly Mugwort is a Taoist protective deity and one of the Four Sages of the North. The cited sources do not give a personal name distinct from this title.
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Baozhu
Baozhu is Qin Keqing's maid in Dream of the Red Chamber. After Qin Keqing's death she volunteered as an adopted daughter for the funeral and stayed at Iron Threshold Temple.
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You Sanjie
You Sanjie is You Erjie's younger sister in Dream of the Red Chamber. After Liu Xianglian broke the betrothal on a rumor, she killed herself with his sword.
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You Erjie
You Erjie is You Sanjie's elder sister in Dream of the Red Chamber. Jia Lian secretly married her; Wang Xifeng later brought her home, and she killed herself by swallowing gold.
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Cui Jue
Cui Fujun is a north-Chinese folk deity said to judge the underworld. Tang and Song records disagree about his personal name, and one source says it was lost.
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Zhang Shang
Zhang Shang is a fictional Jin officer in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The cited sources do not give a different personal name.
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Wenguan
Wenguan is one of the twelve singing girls in the Jia household in Dream of the Red Chamber. She plays young male roles. After the troupe broke up Lady Jia kept her, and Lady Wang later sent her out of the Grand View Garden.
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Cao Yong
Cao Yong is a fictional officer under Cao Ren in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In 211 he was killed at Weinan by Pang De, a general under Ma Chao.
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Donghua Dijun
Donghua Dijun is a Taoist deity. Quanzhen Daoism ranks him among the Four Emperors and Two Empresses and first of the Five Patriarchs. The cited article says his personal name was originally unknown.
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Liu Wu'er
Liu Wu'er is the daughter of the kitchen servant Mother Liu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She is named for being the fifth child. She was suspected of theft in the poria-frost case and later released.
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Mrs. Liu
Mrs. Liu is a maid in the inner kitchen of the Rong mansion in Dream of the Red Chamber, and the mother of Liu Wu'er. She and her daughter were suspected when the rose dew disappeared, then she returned to the kitchen after they were cleared.
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Liu Xianglian
Liu Xianglian is a young man of a hereditary family in Dream of the Red Chamber, nicknamed the Cold Gentleman and a friend of Jia Baoyu. He agreed to marry You Sanjie, broke it off after a rumor, and left with a Daoist after she killed herself.
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Wu Anguo
Wu Anguo is a fictional officer under Kong Rong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He fights with an iron hammer. Against Lü Bu he lasted more than ten bouts before his wrists were cut off.
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Shui'de Xingjun
Shui'de Xingjun, also called the Perfected Lord of Water Virtue, is the Taoist star lord of the water star. One ritual text names him Yinkong Zhaoxia, with Qixia given as a variant.
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Jinhuan Sanjie
Jinhuan Sanjie (died 225) is a fictional officer of Meng Huo in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from the five southern streams. He was killed by Zhao Yun during the southern campaign.
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Wu Yong
Wu Yong (died 1124), courtesy name Xuejiu and nicknamed the Star of Wisdom, is the Liangshan strategist in Water Margin. He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou.
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Wei Dingguo
Wei Dingguo is the militia commander of Lingzhou in Water Margin, called the Divine Fire General. He defended Daming, later joined Liangshan, and died in an ambush during the campaign against Fang La.
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Jiao Da
Jiao Da is an old servant of the Ningguo house in Dream of the Red Chamber. He once followed Duke Ning, Jia Yan, on campaign, and in chapter 7 he got drunk and shouted abuse at the household.
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Xiahou Jie
Xiahou Jie is a commander beside Cao Cao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In chapter 42, at Changban, Zhang Fei's roar frightens him off his horse and he dies. This entry dates his death to 208. Some Ming editions write the name as Xiahou Ba.
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Zhen Baoyu
Zhen Baoyu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Zhen Yingjia. He shares Jia Baoyu's name and is one year younger. He does not appear in the first eighty chapters. The cited article also says he later turned to an official career and parted from Jia Baoyu on bad terms.
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Yan Zheng
Yan Zheng is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving the Yellow Turban leader Zhang Bao. When the city was about to fall, he killed Zhang Bao and surrendered with the head.
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Fang Yue
Fang Yue is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving Wang Kuang, governor of Henei. In chapter 5, before Hulao Pass, he rides out against Lü Bu and is killed in fewer than five bouts.
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Bihen
Bihen is a maid of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She draws his bath. The cited article says the name is also written Bilang, so the title stays Bihen. Qingwen says one bath lasted two or three double-hours.
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Hu Ban
Hu Ban, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is the son of the court gentleman Hu Hua. He served Wang Zhi at Xingyang, spared Guan Yu, and later joined Liu Bei as a general of the standard gate. The article says the man who reported Zhang Fei's death is also written Wu Ban. This entry dates Hu Ban's death to 234, which the article does not narrate.
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Qiutong
Qiutong, in this entry, is Jia Lian's concubine in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata uses that name. The cited encyclopedia page is only a disambiguation and also lists Qiutong as a pen name of Zhang Shizhao. It gives no novel plot.
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Xing Daorong
Xing Daorong, in chapter 52 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a senior commander of Liu Du, governor of Lingling, and wields a mountain-splitting axe. After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun capture him, he feigns surrender, the trap fails, and Zhao Yun kills him.
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Hu Sanniang
Hu Sanniang, in Water Margin, is the daughter of the Hu manor lord. Her nickname is Yizhangqing. Lin Chong captures her. Song Jiang later matches her with Wang Ying, and she ranks fifty-ninth on Liangshan. In the Fang La campaign Zheng Biao kills her with a stone bullet. She is posthumously titled Lady of Huayang commandery.
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Dailai Dongzhu
Dailai Dongzhu is a fictional figure in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the younger brother of Lady Zhurong, Meng Huo's wife, and a leader of the eight fan. He recommends King Mulu and Wutu Gu, once binds Meng Huo and his wife in a false surrender, and at last submits to Shu Han with them. No personal name is attested, so the title stays.
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Jia Hua
Jia Hua is a commander of Sun Quan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At Hefei he and Song Qian guard Sun Quan. At the Sweet Dew Temple he hides three hundred men to kill Liu Bei. Lady Wu orders him beheaded, and Liu Bei's plea saves him.
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Mu Shun
Mu Shun, in chapter 5 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a commander of Zhang Yang. During the campaign against Dong Zhuo he challenges Lü Bu and is speared dead. Chapter 66 has a different man of the same name, a eunuch. This entry is the commander.
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Shi Jin
Shi Jin, in Water Margin, is the young master of Shi manor in Huayin county. His nickname is Nine Dragons and his star name is Tianweixing. He ranks twenty-third on Liangshan. He studied under Wang Jin. After the amnesty, in the Fang La campaign, he died at Yuling Pass in Muzhou under Pang Wanchun's arrow.
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Ziwei Emperor
The Ziwei Emperor, fully titled the Great Emperor of the Purple Tenuity of the North Pole in the Central Heaven, is one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism and the second son of Doumu. Other accounts identify him with Lord Lao, Boyi Kao, or a reincarnation of Liu Bang, so the title stays. This entry lists him under Journey to the West.
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Aiguan
Aiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the comic old man. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Tanchun's maid. When Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, Aiguan's godmother took her away to arrange a marriage.
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Fangguan
Fangguan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing. Her surname is Hua, she is from Gusu, and her role was the principal female. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Baoyu's maid in the Yihong court. After the search of the garden, Lady Wang sent her to leave the household and become a nun with Zhitong of Shuiyue nunnery.
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Qieguan
Qieguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the old female. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Madam You as a maid. After Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, the article says nothing further is known of her.
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Qianxue
Qianxue is one of the senior maids of the Yihong court in Dream of the Red Chamber. In chapter 8 the maple-dew tea angers Jia Baoyu, and he drives her out. Extant manuscripts do not mention her again. A commentary says the draft after chapter 80 still had her visit Baoyu in the prison-god temple, and the Guiyou text's chapter 95 has her die saving him.
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Huang Jinying
Huang Jinying is the maid Xue Baochai brought from home in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her original name was Huang Jinying. Baochai found it awkward and called her Ying'er. She makes knotted cords and flower baskets. When Baochai reads the words on the jade, Ying'er says at once that they match the words on Baochai's necklet.
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Diguan
Diguan, also written Yaoguan, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young female. She and Ouguan, who played the young male, often acted as a married couple. Diguan died young, and Ouguan wept as if she would not live.
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Subhuti
Patriarch Subhuti, fully named Patriarch Subhuti of the Xu, is Sun Wukong's teacher in Journey to the West. He teaches the seventy-two transformations, long life, and the cloud somersault, and he forbids Wukong to reveal the school. The article gives several accounts of who he really is, so the title stays.
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Kuiguan
Kuiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her surname is Wei, and her role was the painted face. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid and renamed Wei Daying, from the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. Nothing further is told.
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Ouguan
Ouguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young male. After the troupe was disbanded she entered Lin Daiyu's rooms. She and Diguan often acted as a married couple, and Diguan died young. Lady Wang later drove the actresses out, and Ouguan and Ruiguan became nuns with Yuanxin at Dizang nunnery.
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Diting
Diting, also called Shanting, is a divine beast in Buddhism and Chinese myth, said to be Ksitigarbha's mount. The earliest record is the Account of Daoming's Return from the Dead, in 778. It is described with a tiger's head, a rhinoceros horn, a dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and qilin feet. This entry lists it under Journey to the West. No personal name is attested.
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Guan Sheng
Guan Sheng, in Water Margin, is called a direct descendant of Guan Yu. His nickname is the Great Sword. He was inspector of Pudong, was captured while relieving Daming, and joined Liangshan as the fifth chief and the head of the five tigers of the cavalry. After Fang La he became commander of the horse at Daming, then fell from his horse while drunk and died of the injury.
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Gongsun Sheng
Gongsun Sheng, in Water Margin, is a Daoist from Jizhou. His Daoist name is Yiqing, his nickname is the Dragon Entering the Clouds, and his star is Tianxianxing. He studied under Luo the Perfected. He joined the seizure of the birthday gift and later kept Liangshan's secrets. After Wang Qing, at Chenqiao post he recalled his teacher's words, returned to Jizhou, and did not join the Fang La campaign.
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Jia Dairu
Jia Dairu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a collateral son of the Jia house's second generation and the family tutor. He is Jia Rui's grandfather. His son and daughter-in-law died early, and he kept Jia Rui under strict watch. When Wang Xifeng's trap of longing killed Jia Rui, Jia Dairu wept as if he would not live.
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Jia Lan
Jia Lan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Jia Zhu and Li Wan and Jia Zheng's eldest grandson. After Jia Zhu died, Li Wan put her energy into raising him, had him read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and set him on the official path. In the last forty chapters continued by Gao E, he places one hundred thirtieth in the provincial examination.
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Jia Jing
Jia Jing, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the grandson of Duke Ning, Jia Yan, and the second son of Jia Daihua. He was a jinshi of the Yimao examination, rank 5b, but left office and title to his son Jia Zhen and practiced alchemy at the Xuanzhen temple. In chapter 63 he dies of elixir poisoning.
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Jia Jun
Jia Jun, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a great-great-grandson of the near branch of the Rongguo house and the son of Madam Lou. His father died early. At the family school he is closest to Jia Lan. In the school fight he helps Mingyan. He attends Qin Keqing's funeral in chapter 13, and nothing further is told.
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Jia Rong
Jia Rong, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is Jia Zhen's son. He began as a student of the Imperial Academy. After Qin Keqing died, Jia Zhen spent a thousand taels to buy him the fifth-rank post of dragon-forbidden commandant, and he later married a woman of the Xu family. He helps Wang Xifeng trick Jia Rui and suggests how Jia Lian can secretly marry You Erjie. In chapter 105, when the house is raided, he too is held.
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Jia Qiang
Jia Qiang, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a legitimate great-great-grandson of the Ningguo house. His parents died early and he grew up with Jia Zhen. He attends school in name only. He later manages the family troupe and loves Lingguan. A commentary hints that they marry and that he helps the Jia house after its fall.