Wutugu is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and does not appear in the standard histories. He is lord of the southern kingdom of Wuge, a giant who eats no grain. When Meng Huo asked for help he led rattan-armor troops against Shu, and he died with his thirty thousand men when Zhuge Liang burned them in Panshe Valley. Wikidata records 225 as his death year within the work.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]

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Sheyue

literary character

Sheyue is a maid at Jia Baoyu's side in Dream of the Red Chamber, second only to Xiren in the Yihong Court, honest and steady in manner. In chapter 63 she draws the tuMi flower lot, which hints that after the fall of the Jia family she will be the last maid left beside Baoyu and Baochai. After Baoyu becomes a monk only she and Baochai remain to depend on each other, a sad end that moves the commentators.

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Qianxue

literary character

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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Ouguan

literary character

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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Leigong

mythological figure

Leigong is the thunder god in traditional Chinese folk religion and a mythological figure.

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Fangguan

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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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Dongtuna

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Dongtuna is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a man of the Five Streams caves in the southern tribal lands and the second cave marshal under the king Meng Huo. Wikidata records 225 as the year of his death within the work. He helped guard the Five Streams against the Shu army and later seized the drunken Meng Huo and handed him over.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]

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Diting

literary character

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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Diaochan

literary character

Diaochan is a fictional character in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a concubine of Lü Bu who in the story is Wang Yun's adopted daughter and uses a beauty trap to set Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu against each other. Chinese Wikipedia stresses that the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han record only that Lü Bu had an affair with a maid of Dong Zhuo and never give the name Diaochan.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]

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Aiguan

literary character

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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