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Xiangling (Chinese: 香菱; pinyin: Xiānglíng, rendered Caltrop in David Hawkes's translation) is a character in the 18th century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is the primary maid of the Xue household.
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
Li Xinyu (front) as Xue Xiangling, Shanghai, 22 November 2014. The play has been adapted by other Chinese opera genres and made into films. In 1966, it was made into a Huangmei opera film titled The Lucky Purse. The Hong Kong film was directed by Wong Tin-lam and starred Betty Loh Ti. [4] In 2011, it was made into a Qinqiang film titled The ...
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.
Daiyu Buries Flowers, a painting dated 1950. Lin Daiyu (also spelled Lin Tai-yu, Chinese: 林黛玉; pinyin: Lín Dàiyù, rendered Black Jade in Chi-chen Wang's translation) is one of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin's classic 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. [1]
Chinese characters [a] are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only one that has remained in continuous use. Over a documented history spanning more than three millennia, the ...
Xiang or Hsiang (Chinese: 湘; Changsha Xiang: [sian˧ y˦˩], [2] Mandarin: [ɕi̯aŋ˥ y˨˩˦]), also known as Hunanese, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of neighboring Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.