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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).
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).
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.
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.
The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.
Xiangling Township (simplified Chinese: 向岭乡; traditional Chinese: 向岭鄉; pinyin: Xiànglǐng Xiāng) is a township of Jinyang County, Sichuan, China. [1] As of 2020, it administers the following seven villages: [2] Xiazhai Village (下寨村) Shangzhai Village (上寨村) Tasha Village (塔沙村) Celuo Village (侧洛村)