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Xue Pan (Chinese: 薛蟠; pinyin: Xūe Pán) is a secondary character in the classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.He is a idle troublemaker who is guilty of murdering a man over a beautiful slave girl, Zhen Yinglian, who is renamed as Xiangling (Lotus).
She is the primary maid of the Xue household. Originally named Zhen Yinglian (Chinese: 甄英蓮; pinyin: Zhēn Yīnglián), she is the lost daughter of Zhen Shiyin (甄士隱), the country gentleman in Chapter 1. Kidnapped as a young girl on the streets and sold to the Xue family under the name Xiangling (Lotus).
Xiangling may refer to: Xiangling, Shanxi (Chinese: 襄陵镇), a town in Xiangfen County, Shanxi, China Xiangling County, former name of Xiangfen County; Xiangling Township (Chinese: 向岭乡), Jinyang County, Sichuan, China; Xiangling (character) (Chinese: 香菱), fictional maidservant in the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber
On her wedding day, Xue Xiangling receives a purse full of jewels from her mother. Her wedding procession stops at a pavilion, when she hears a woman sobbing from another sedan chair also parked there. They begin a conversation, and Xiangling learns that the other woman, Zhao Shouzhen, is also getting married, but into a hopelessly poor family.
Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage comprises approximately 8,100 character head entries and 110,000 word and phrase entries. [10] It includes both modern Chinese neologisms such as xǐnǎo 洗腦 "brainwash" and many Chinese loanwords from English such as yáogǔn 搖滾 "rock 'n' roll" and xīpí 嬉皮 "hippie".
Chen Shimei is a Chinese opera character and a byword in China for a heartless and unfaithful man. He was married to Qin Xianglian, also translated as Fragrant Lotus. [1] Chen Shimei betrayed Qin Xianglian by marrying another woman, and tried to kill her to cover up his past.
Xiangling (Chinese: 襄陵; pinyin: Xiānglíng) is a town of Xiangfen County, Shanxi, China. [1] As of 2020 [update] , it had 29 villages under its administration: [ 2 ] Jingtou Village ( 井头村 )
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.