T’ien Hu, bandit chieftan active in the Hopei area.
Ting, Director, Wu K’ai’s predecessor as director of the State Farm Battalion in Ch’ing-ho, cashiered for corruption by Hou Meng.
Ting, Mr., father of Ting the Second, silk merchant from Hang-chou.
Ting the Second, Ting Shuang-ch’iao, son of Mr. Ting, friend of Ch’en Liang-huai, a silk merchant from Hang-chou who patronizes Li Kuei-chieh while on a visit to Ch’ing-ho and hides under the bed when Hsi-men Ch’ing discovers their liaison and smashes up the Verdant Spring Bordello.
Ting Shuang-ch’iao. See Ting the Second.
Ting the Southerner, wine merchant in Ch’ing-ho from whom Hsi-men Ch’ing buys forty jugs of Ho-ch’ing wine on credit.
Tou Chien (d. 1127), superintendant of the Capital Training Divisions and capital security commissioner.
Tower of Jade. See Meng Yü-lou.
Ts’ai, Assistant Prefect, resident of Ch’ing-ho from whose household Sung Hui-lien is expelled for colluding with her mistress in a case of adultery.
Ts’ai, Assistant Prefect’s wife.
Ts’ai Ching (1046–1126), father of Ts’ai Yu, Ts’ai T’iao, Ts’ai T’ao, and Ts’ai Hsiu, father-in-law of Liang Shih-chieh, left grand councilor, grand academician of the Hall for Veneration of Governance, grand preceptor, minister of personnel, Duke of Lu, most powerful minister at the court of Emperor Hui-tsung, impeached by Yü-wen Hsü-chung, patron and adoptive father of Ts’ai Yün and Hsi-men Ch’ing, first of the Six Traitors impeached by Ch’en Tung.
Ts’ai Ching’s mansion in the Eastern Capital, gatekeepers of.
Ts’ai Ching’s mansion in the Eastern Capital, page boy in.
Ts’ai Ching’s wife.
Ts’ai family of Yen-chou in Shantung, family of which Hsi-men Hsiao-ko is alleged to have been a son in his previous incarnation.
Ts’ai Hsing (fl. early 12th century), son of Ts’ai Yu, appointed director of the Palace Administration as a reward for his father’s part in facilitating the notorious Flower and Rock Convoys and the construction of the Mount Ken Imperial Park.
Ts’ai Hsiu, ninth son of Ts’ai Ching, prefect of Chiu-chiang.
Ts’ai, Midwife, presides over the deliveries of Li P’ing-erh’s son, Hsi-men Kuan-ko, and Wu Yüeh-niang’s son, Hsi-men Hsiao-ko.
Ts’ai T’ao (d. after 1147), fifth son of Ts’ai Ching.
Ts’ai T’iao (d. after 1137), fourth son of Ts’ai Ching, consort of Princess Mao-te.
Ts’ai Yu (1077–1126), eldest son of Ts’ai Ching, son-in-law of Sung Ch’iao-nien, brother-in-law of Sung Sheng-ch’ung, father of Ts’ai Hsing, academician of the Hall of Auspicious Harmony, minister of rites, superintendent of the Temple of Supreme Unity, rewarded with the title grand guardian of the heir apparent for his part in facilitating the notorious Flower and Rock Convoys and the construction of the Mount Ken Imperial Park, executed by order of Emperor Ch’in-tsung after the fall of Ts’ai Ching and his faction.
Ts’ai Yu’s son. See Ts’ai Hsing.
Ts’ai Yu’s wife, née Sung, daughter of Sung Ch’iao-nien, younger sister of Sung Sheng-ch’ung.
Ts’ai Yün, awarded first place in the chin-shih examinations in place of An Ch’en when the latter is displaced for being the younger brother of the proscribed An Tun, becomes a protégé and adopted son of Ts’ai Ching, appointed proofreader in the Palace Library, is patronized by Hsi-men Ch’ing; after being impeached by Ts’ao Ho he is appointed salt-control censor of the Liang-Huai region where his illicit favors to Hsi-men Ch’ing abet his profitable speculations in the salt trade.
Ts’ai Yün’s mother.
Tsang Pu-hsi, docket officer on the staff of the district yamen in Ch’ing-ho.
Ts’ao Ho, censor who impeaches Ts’ai Yün and thirteen others from the Historiography Institute who had passed the chin-shih examinations in the same year.
Tseng Hsiao-hsü (1049–1127), son of Tseng Pu, regional investigating censor of Shantung, reopens the case of Miao T’ien-hsiu’s murder at the request of Huang Mei and arrives at the truth only to have his memorial suppressed when Hsi-men Ch’ing and Hsia Yen-ling bribe Ts’ai Ching to intervene; submits a memorial to the throne criticizing the policies of Ts’ai Ching that so enrages the prime minister that he suborns his daughter-in-law’s brother, Sung Sheng-ch’ung, into framing him on trumped up charges as a result of which he is deprived of his office and banished to the farthest southern extremity of the country.
Tseng Pu (1036–1107), father of Tseng Hsiao-hsü.
Tso Shun, professional boy actor in Ch’ing-ho.
Ts’ui-erh, maidservant of Sun Hsüeh-o.
Ts’ui-hua, junior maidservant of P’ang Ch’un-mei after she becomes the wife of Chou Hsiu.
Ts’ui Pen, nephew of Ch’iao Hung, husband of Big Sister Tuan, employee, manager, and partner in several of Hsi-men Ch’ing’s enterprises.
Ts’ui Pen’s mother, Ch’iao Hung’s elder sister.
Ts’ui, Privy Councilor. See Ts’ui Shou-yü.
Ts’ui Shou-yü, Privy Councilor Ts’ui, relative of Hsia Yen-ling with whom he stays on his visit to the Eastern Capital.
Tsung-mei. See Ch’en Ching-chi.
Tsung-ming. See Chin Tsung-ming.
Tsung Tse (1059–1128), general-in-chief of the Southern Sung armies who retakes parts of Shantung and Hopei from the Chin invaders on behalf of Emperor Kao-tsung.
Tu the Third, maternal cousin of Ying Po-chüeh.
Tu the Third’s page boy.
Tu the Third’s wife.
Tu Tzu-ch’un, privy councilor under a previous reign living in retirement in the northern quarter of Ch’ing-ho, engaged by Hsi-men Ch’ing to indite the inscription on Li P’ing-erh’s funeral banderole.
Tuan, Big Sister, wife of Ts’ui Pen.
Tuan, Big Sister’s father.
Tuan, Consort. See Feng, Consort.
Tuan, Half-baked. See Tuan Mien.
Tuan Mien, Half-baked Tuan, one of the “cribbers” in the licensed quarter of Ch’ing-ho patronized by Hsi-men Ch’ing.
Tuan, Old Mother, waiting woman in Lady Lin’s household whose residence in the rear of the compound is used as a rendezvous by her lovers.
Tung the Cat. See Tung Chin-erh.
Tung Chiao-erh, singing girl from the Tung Family Brothel on Second Street in the licensed quarter of Ch’ing-ho who spends the night with Ts’ai Yün at Hsi-men Ch’ing’s behest.
Tung Chin-erh, Tung the Cat, singing girl from the Tung Family Brothel on Second Street in the licensed quarter of Ch’ing-ho, patronized by Chang Mao-te.
Tung Sheng, clerical subofficial on the staff of Wang Fu.
Tung Yü-hsien, singing girl from the Tung Family Brothel on Second Street in the licensed quarter of Ch’ing-ho.
T’ung Kuan (1054–1126), eunuch military officer beaten up by Wu Sung in a drunken brawl, uncle of T’ung T’ien-yin, military affairs commissioner, defender-in-chief of the Palace Command, Commandery Prince of Kuang-yang, one of the Six Traitors impeached by Ch’en Tung.
T’ung Kuan’s nephew. See T’ung T’ien-yin.
T’ung, Prefectural Judge, prefectural judge of Tung-p’ing who conducts the preliminary hearing in the case of the affray between Feng Huai and Sun Wen-hsiang.
T’ung T’ien-yin, nephew of T’ung Kuan, commander of the guard, director of the Office of Herds in the Inner and Outer Imperial Demesnes of the Court of the Imperial Stud.
Turf-protecting Tiger. See Liu the Second.
Tutor employed in the household of Miao Ch’ing.
Tz’u-hui Temple, abbot of, recovers the corpse of the murdered Miao T’ien-hsiu and buries it on the bank of the river west of Ch’ing-ho where it is discovered by Ti Ssu-pin.
Vase. See Li P’ing-erh.
Waiter in My Own Tavern in Lin-ch’ing.
Wan-yen Tsung-han (1079–1136), Nien-mo-ho, nephew of Emperor T’ai-tsu (r. 1115–23) the founder of the Chin dynasty, commander of the Chin army that occupies K’ai-feng
and takes Retired Emperor Hui-tsung and Emperor Ch’in-tsung into captivity.
Wan-yen Tsung-wang (d. 1127), Wo-li-pu, second son of Emperor T’ai-tsu (r. 1115–23) the founder of the Chin dynasty, associate commander of the Chin army that occupies K’ai-feng and takes Retired Emperor Hui-tsung and Emperor Ch’in-tsung into captivity, kills Chou Hsiu with an arrow through the throat.
Wang, Attendant, official on the staff of the Prince of Yün to whom Han Tao-kuo appeals through Hsi-men Ch’ing and Jen Hou-ch’i to be allowed to commute his hereditary corvée labor obligation to payments in money or goods.
Wang, Butcher, elder brother of Wang Liu-erh, husband of Sow Wang whose daughter is betrothed to Seng-pao.
Wang Ch’ao, son of Dame Wang, apprenticed to a merchant from the Huai River region from whom he steals a hundred taels entrusted to him for the purchase of stock, returns to Ch’ing-ho, and uses it as capital to buy two donkeys and set up a flour mill, becomes a casual lover of P’an Chin-lien while she is in Dame Wang’s house awaiting purchase as a concubine.
Wang Chen, second son of Wang Hsüan, government student in the prefectural school.
Wang Ch’ien, eldest son of Wang Hsüan, hereditary battalion commander of the local Horse Pasturage Battalion of the Court of the Imperial Stud.
Wang Chin-ch’ing. See Wang Shen.
Wang Ching, younger brother of Wang Liu-erh, page boy employed in the household of Hsi-men Ch’ing as a replacement for Shu-t’ung after he absconds, sodomized by Hsi-men Ch’ing during his visit to the Eastern Capital, expelled from the household by Wu Yüeh-niang after the death of Hsi-men Ch’ing.
Wang Ching-ch’ung (d. 949), military commissioner of T’ai-yüan, Commandery Prince of Pin-yang, ancestor of Wang I-hsüan.
Wang Ch’ing, bandit chieftan active in the Huai-hsi area.
Wang Chu, elder brother of Wang Hsiang, professional boy actor in Ch’ing-ho.
Wang, Consort (d. 1117), a consort of Emperor Hui-tsung, mother of Chao K’ai, the Prince of Yün, related to Wang the Second.
Wang, Dame, mother of Wang Ch’ao, proprietress of a teahouse next door to Wu Chih’s house on Amythest Street on the west side of the district yamen in Ch’ing-ho who is also active as a go-between and procuress; go-between who proposes the match between Hsi-men Ch’ing and Wu Yüeh-niang; inventor of the elaborate scheme by which Hsi-men Ch’ing seduces P’an Chin-lien; suggests the poisoning of her next door neighbor Wu Chih and helps P’an Chin-lien carry it out; intervenes on behalf of Ho the Tenth when he is accused of fencing stolen goods with the result that Hsi-men Ch’ing gets him off the hook and executes an innocent monk in his stead; after the death of Hsi-men Ch’ing, when Wu Yüeh-niang discovers P’an Chin-lien’s affair with Ch’en Ching-chi, she expells her from the household and consigns her to Dame Wang, who entertains bids from Magnate Ho, Chang Mao-te, Ch’en Ching-chi, and Chou Hsiu before finally selling her to Wu Sung for a hundred taels of silver plus a five tael brokerage fee; that same night she is decapitated by Wu Sung after he has disemboweled P’an Chin-lien.
Wang, Dame’s deceased husband, father of Wang Ch’ao, dies when she is thirty-five.
Wang, Dame’s son. See Wang Ch’ao.
Wang, distaff relative of the imperial family. See Wang the Second.
Wang family of Cheng-chou, family into which Hsi-men Kuan-ko is reincarnated as a son.
Wang family of the Eastern Capital, family into which Ch’en Ching-chi is reincarnated as a son.
Wang family of Pin-chou, family in which Li P’ing-erh is alleged to have been formerly incarnated as a son.
Wang the First, Auntie, madam of the Wang Family Brothel in Yang-chou.
Wang Fu (1079–1126), minister of war impeached by Yü-wen Hsü-chung.
Wang Fu’s wife and children.
Wang Hai-feng. See Wang Ssu-feng.
Wang Han, servant in the household of Han Tao-kuo and Wang Liu-erh.
Wang Hsiang, younger brother of Wang Chu, professional boy actor in Ch’ing-ho.
Wang Hsien, employee of Hsi-men Ch’ing who accompanies Lai-pao on a buying trip to Nan-ching.
Wang Hsüan, Layman of Apricot Hermitage, father of Wang Ch’ien and Wang Chen, friend of Ch’en Hung, retired philanthropist who provides aid to Ch’en Ching-chi three times after he is reduced to beggary and who recommends him to Abbot Jen of the Yen-kung Temple in Lin-ch’ing.
Wang Hsüan’s manager, in charge of a pawnshop on the street front of his residence.
Wang Huan (fl. early 12th century), commander-general of the Hopei region who leads the forces of Wei-po against the Chin invaders.
Wang I-hsüan, Imperial Commissioner Wang, descendant of Wang Ching-ch’ung, deceased husband of Lady Lin, father of Wang Ts’ai.
Wang I-hsüan’s wife. See Lady Lin.
Wang I-hsüan’s son. See Wang Ts’ai.
Wang, Imperial Commissioner. See Wang I-hsüan.
Wang K’uan, head of the mutual security unit for Ch’en Ching-chi’s residence in Ch’ing-ho.
Wang Lien, henchman on the domestic staff of Wang Fu.
Wang Liu-erh, Wang the Sixth, one of the female protagonists of the novel, younger sister of Butcher Wang, elder sister of Wang Ching, wife of Han Tao-kuo, mother of Han Ai-chieh; paramour of her brother-in-law, Han the Second, whom she marries after her husband’s death, of Hsi-men Ch’ing, to whose death from sexual exhaustion she is a major contributor, and of Magnate Ho, whose property in Hu-chou she inherits.
Wang Liu-erh’s niece, daughter of Butcher Wang and Sow Wang, betrothed to Seng-pao, the son of Lai-pao and Hui-hsiang.
Wang Luan, proprietor of the Great Tavern on Lion Street in Ch’ing-ho who witnesses Wu Sung’s fatal attack on Li Wai-ch’uan.
Wang, Nun, Buddhist nun from the Kuan-yin Nunnery in Ch’ing-ho which is patronized by Wu Yüeh-niang, frequently invited to recite Buddhist “precious scrolls” to Wu Yüeh-niang and her guests, recommends Nun Hsüeh to Wu Yüeh-niang who takes her fertility potion and conceives Hsi-men Hsiao-ko, later quarrels with Nun Hsüeh over the division of alms from Li P’ing-erh and Wu Yüeh-niang.
Wang, Old Mrs., neighbor of Yün Li-shou in Chi-nan who appears in Wu Yüeh-niang’s nightmare.
Wang, Old Sister, singing girl working out of My Own Tavern in Lin-ch’ing.
Wang Ping (d. 1126), commander-general of the Kuan-tung region who leads the forces of Fen-chiang against the Chin invaders.
Wang Po-ju, proprietor of an inn on the docks in Yang-chou recommended to Han Tao-kuo, Lai-pao, and Ts’ui Pen by Hsi-men Ch’ing as a good place to stay.
Wang Po-ju’s father, friend of Hsi-men Ch’ing’s father, Hsi-men Ta.
Wang Po-yen (1069–1141), right assistant administration commissioner of Shantung.
Wang the Second, distaff relative of the imperial family through Consort Wang, landlord of Wu Chih’s residence on the west side of Amythest Street in Ch’ing-ho, purchaser of Eunuch Director Hua’s mansion on Main Street in An-ch’ing ward of Ch’ing-ho, maintains a private troupe of twenty actors that he sometimes lends to Hsi-men Ch’ing to entertain his guests.
Wang Shen (c. 1048-c. 1103), Wang Chin-ch’ing, commandant-escort and director of the Court of the Imperial Clan, consort of the second daughter of Emperor Ying-tsung (r. 1063–67).
Wang Shih-ch’i, prefect of Ch’ing-chou in Shantung.
Wang the Sixth. See Wang Liu-erh.
Wang, Sow, wife of Butcher Wang whose daughter is betrothed to Seng-pao.
Wang Ssu-feng, Wang Hai-feng, salt merchant from Yang-chou who is set free from prison in Ts’ang-chou by Hou Meng, the grand coordinator of Shantung, as a result of Hsi-men Ch’ing’s intervention with Ts’ai Ching.
Wang the Third. See Wang Ts’ai.
Wang Ts’ai (1078–1118), Wang the Third, feckless and dissolute third son of Wang I-hsüan and Lady Lin, married to the niece of Huang Ching-ch’en, tries unsuccessfully to borrow three hundred taels of silver from Hsü Pu-yü in order to purchase a position in the Military School, pawn
s his wife’s possessions in order to pursue various singing girls in the licensed quarter including those patronized by Hsi-men Ch’ing, tricked into becoming the adopted son of Hsi-men Ch’ing during his intrigue with Lady Lin, continues his affair with Li Kuei-chieh after the death of Hsi-men Ch’ing.
Wang Ts’ai’s wife, née Huang, niece of Huang Ching-ch’en.
Wang Tsu-tao (d. 1108), minister of personnel.
Wang Tung-ch’iao, traveling merchant entertained by Han Tao-kuo in Yang-chou.
Wang, Usher, official in the Court of State Ceremonial who offers the sixteen-year-old wife of his runaway retainer for sale as a maidservant through Old Mother Feng.
Wang, Usher’s runaway retainer.
Wang, Usher’s runaway retainer’s wife.
Wang Wei, supreme commander of the Capital Training Divisions, Duke of Lung-hsi, granted the title of grand mentor for his part in facilitating the notorious Flower and Rock Convoys and the construction of the Mount Ken Imperial Park.
Wang Ying, Short-legged Tiger, second outlaw leader of the Ch’ing-feng Stronghold on Ch’ing-feng Mountain who wants to make Wu Yüeh-niang his wife when she is captured by his band but is prevented from doing so by Sung Chiang.
Wang Yu, commander of a training division rewarded for his part in facilitating the notorious Flower and Rock Convoys and the construction of the Mount Ken Imperial Park.
Wang Yü, subofficial functionary on the domestic staff of Ts’ai Ching deputed by Chai Ch’ien to carry a message of condolence to Hsi-men Ch’ing and a personal letter from Han Ai-chieh to Han Tao-kuo and Wang Liu-erh.
Wang Yü-chih, singing girl from the Wang Family Brothel in Yang-chou patronized by Han Tao-kuo.
Wei Ch’eng-hsün, battalion commander rewarded for his part in facilitating the notorious Flower and Rock Convoys and the construction of the Mount Ken Imperial Park.
Wei Ts’ung-erh, a taciturn chair-bearer in Ch’ing-ho, partner of Chang Ch’uan-erh.
Wen, Auntie, mother of Wen T’ang, go-between in Ch’ing-ho who represents Ch’en Ching-chi’s family at the time of his betrothal to Hsi-men Ta-chieh, resident of Wang Family Alley on the South Side of town, active in promoting pilgrimages to Mount T’ai, patronized by Lady Lin for whom she acts as a procuress in her adulterous affairs including that with Hsi-men Ch’ing, involved with Auntie Hsüeh in arranging the betrothal between Chang Mao-te’s son and Eunuch Director Hsü’s niece.
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