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Hongniang

Actress Chen Xinyu (陈欣雨) portraying Hongniang in a 2016 Yue opera performance in Tianchan Theatre, Shanghai.

Traditional Chinese| 紅娘
Simplified Chinese| 红娘
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Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Hóngniáng
Wade–Giles| Hung2 Niang2

Hongniang, or Scarlet, is a fictional character from "Yingying's Biography", a Chinese story by Yuan Zhen (779–831), and Romance of the Western Chamber, a Chinese play by Wang Shifu (1250–1337?). She is the maidservant of Cui Yingying. In Yuan Zhen's story, she doesn't play an important role, but in Wang Shifu's play, Hongniang figures prominently. Intelligent, sympathetic, loyal, and highly enthusiastic, it is Hongniang who made Cui Yingying and Scholar Zhang (Zhang Gong) fall in love, and it is she who made their marriage happen. Hongniang has entered modern Chinese vocabulary as a synonym for a (female) matchmaker.

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Western Chamber

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* Yingying's Biography
* Romance of the Western Chamber

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* Cui Yingying
* Hongniang
* Student Zhang (Zhang Gong)

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* Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film)
* Lost in the Chamber of Love (2004 TV series)
* Romance of the Western Chamber (2013 TV series)

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