Jade Emperor, the highest god of many Taoist sects, overseeing the universe through administration of a celestial bureaucracy mirroring ancient and medieval China's.

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Yang Lin

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Yang Lin, Water Margin character.

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Ling Zhen

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Ling Zhen, Water Margin character.

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Xuan Zan

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Xuan Zan, Water Margin character.

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Ruan Xiaoqi

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Ruan Xiaoqi, Water Margin character.

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Zhu Wu

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Zhu Wu, Water Margin character.

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Xiao Rang

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Xiao Rang, Water Margin character.

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Peng Qi

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Peng Qi, Water Margin character.

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Huang Xin

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Huang Xin, Water Margin character.

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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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Lingbao Tianzun

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Lingbao Tianzun, Taoist deity.

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Wenguan

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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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Bihen

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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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Kuiguan

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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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Liu Wu'er

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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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Diguan

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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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Baozhu

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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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Jia Baoyu

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Jia Baoyu, principal character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

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Jia Dairu

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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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Lady Wang

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Lady Wang, fictional character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

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Jia Lan

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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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Mu Shun

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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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Hua Rong

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Hua Rong (? – 1124), fictional character in the Water Margin.

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Xing Daorong

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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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Yan Zheng

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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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Wu Anguo

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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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Huyan Zhuo

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Huyan Zhuo, Water Margin character.

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Fang Yue

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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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