Xing Zhong
邢忠
“The Poor Relation”
His Story
Lady Xing’s brother and the father of Xing Xiuyan. In Chapter 49 he brings his wife and daughter to the capital, having no way to keep them in the country, and the family is taken in on his sister’s standing rather than his own. He has nothing, and she does little for them. Xiuyan is lodged in the Garden with the girls; it is her poverty, not his, that the novel goes on to describe.
In Xiang Li's Hands
An old man asleep sitting up — eyes shut, white moustache, head wrapped in blue cloth, the robe put down in broad wet grey strokes. Behind him a pale green riverbank with small boats. He is the only figure here given a landscape, and he is not looking at it.
The Calligraphy
邢忠 is the plain personal name, with no title and no kinship term — the page’s own way of placing a man who has neither.
Connections
- Xing Xiuyan 邢岫烟 — his daughter, left in the Garden.
- Lady Xing 邢夫人 — his sister, on whose standing the family is taken in.
- Xing Dequan 邢德全 — the other Xing brother, the household’s “Idiot Uncle”.
Others of the same kind · official / noble / royal Qin Zhong 秦钟 · Jia Yucun 贾雨村 · Bei Jing Wang 北静王 · Leng Zixing 冷子兴 · Zhang Rugui 张如圭 · Menzi 门子 · Xiping Junwang 西平郡王 · Nan'an Taifei 南安太妃 · Zhangshiguan 长史官 · Feng Ziying 冯紫英 · Sun Shaozu 孙绍祖 · Yun Guang 云光 · Fu Shi 傅试 · Fu Qiufang 傅秋芳 and 9 more
Named on these pages Xing Dequan 邢德全
Dream of the Red Chamber
Xiang Li painted all 413 characters of the novel between 1975 and 1985, the first person to complete the entire cast. See the whole collection · Chinese Empresses
