Jia Qiaojie
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Jia Qiaojie is a character in the Chinese
novel
Dream of the Red Chamber
. She is the only child of Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng
. She remains a child throughout much of the novel. She is named after the Weaver Girl by Granny Liu
, hoping the name will give some good luck and fortune.
In the end of the novel according to the Cheng-Gao version, Granny Liu
saves her from being sold into concubinage by her maternal uncle. She and Ping'er
are taken to Granny Liu's village in the country, where Qiaojie eventually marries one of Granny Liu's neighbors.
Qiaojie is the youngest of Jinling Twelve Beauties.
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
Dream of the Red Chamber
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 the only child of Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng
Wang Xifeng
Wang Xifeng is one of the principal characters in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. A not-so-well educated upper-class woman with finesse, she is also known as "Peppercorn Feng" or "Hot Pepper"...
. She remains a child throughout much of the novel. She is named after the Weaver Girl by Granny Liu
Granny Liu
Granny Liu is a character in Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is an elderly country rustic and a distant relative of Lady Wang through "joining families" and marriage ....
, hoping the name will give some good luck and fortune.
In the end of the novel according to the Cheng-Gao version, Granny Liu
Granny Liu
Granny Liu is a character in Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is an elderly country rustic and a distant relative of Lady Wang through "joining families" and marriage ....
saves her from being sold into concubinage by her maternal uncle. She and Ping'er
Ping'er
Ping'er is an important character in the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is Wang Xifeng's chief maid and personal assistant/confidante, who follows her from the Wang family. Being the chief consultant of the household manager, Ping'er wields considerable power in the Jia household...
are taken to Granny Liu's village in the country, where Qiaojie eventually marries one of Granny Liu's neighbors.
Qiaojie is the youngest of Jinling Twelve Beauties.