Jia Yingchun
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Jia Yingchun is a major character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber
. She is protagonist Jia Baoyu
's eldest female first cousin. She is the daughter of Jia She (贾赦, elder brother to Jia Zheng who is Baoyu's father) and one of his concubines, and younger half-sister to Jia Lian. Yingchun is beautiful, very kind-hearted, and well-read. However, she has a "wooden" personality and is not very talented and is essentially fussless. Neither a poet like Daiyu, household manager like Tanchun, or painter like Xichun, she has only her family name
to distinguish herself and therefore is called "Blockhead the Second" by her cousins. Yingchun is the second of the quartet of "Springs".
Yingchun is weak-willed and apathetic to worldly affairs. A Taoist
, she prefers to read instead of commanding servants whenever possible. Hence many lowly servants freely take advantage of her. Eventually she marries Sun Shaozu (孫紹祖), the sadistic son of a military officer. In the Cheng-Gao ending she becomes a victim of domestic abuse and infidelity from her husband, and eventually withers to her death in the Sun household soon after the Ningguo and Rongguo Mansions are confiscated.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber , composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and is generally acknowledged to be a pinnacle of...
. She is protagonist Jia Baoyu
Jia Baoyu
Jia Baoyu is the principal character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.- Introduction :The first chapter describes how one piece of stone was left over from when the heaven was repaired by the Goddess Nüwa...
's eldest female first cousin. She is the daughter of Jia She (贾赦, elder brother to Jia Zheng who is Baoyu's father) and one of his concubines, and younger half-sister to Jia Lian. Yingchun is beautiful, very kind-hearted, and well-read. However, she has a "wooden" personality and is not very talented and is essentially fussless. Neither a poet like Daiyu, household manager like Tanchun, or painter like Xichun, she has only her family name
Family name
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to distinguish herself and therefore is called "Blockhead the Second" by her cousins. Yingchun is the second of the quartet of "Springs".
Yingchun is weak-willed and apathetic to worldly affairs. A Taoist
Taoism
Taoism refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao , which is the mechanism of everything that exists...
, she prefers to read instead of commanding servants whenever possible. Hence many lowly servants freely take advantage of her. Eventually she marries Sun Shaozu (孫紹祖), the sadistic son of a military officer. In the Cheng-Gao ending she becomes a victim of domestic abuse and infidelity from her husband, and eventually withers to her death in the Sun household soon after the Ningguo and Rongguo Mansions are confiscated.