Xiaoque
Xiaoque 小鹊 — Urraca Pequeña. Criada pequeña de la tía Zhao.
小鹊
“Little Magpie”
Her Story
Aunt Zhao’s little maid. Chapter 73 opens with her: she slips out of her mistress’s room at night, crosses to Green Delights, and tells Baoyu that his father has been talking about him — then goes, leaving him up till dawn with his books in terror of being tested on them. A magpie is a bringer of news. She brings one piece and is not heard from again.
In Xiang Li's Hands
Head bowed, blue-grey jacket flecked yellow, both wide sleeves hanging empty, a red garment bunched against her chest, long pink skirt. Black wedges lie at her feet. To her right, on bare paper, a shape in grey ink alone reads as more of the same cloth, drawn but never coloured.
The Calligraphy
小鹊 — the diminutive 小 kept, upper right: not a name so much as what a household calls a child across a courtyard.
Connections
- Zhao Yiniang 赵姨娘 — her mistress, Jia Zheng’s concubine.
- Jia Baoyu 贾宝玉 — the person she runs to warn in Chapter 73.
- Xiaojixiang’r 小吉祥儿 — Aunt Zhao’s other maid.
Others of the same kind · maid – Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Li Wan, Xiangyun Siqi 司棋 · Xiuju 绣橘 · Lianhua'r 莲花儿 · Shishu 侍书 · Cuimo 翠墨 · Xiaochan 小蝉 · Ruhua 入画 · Caiping 彩屏 · Cai'er 彩儿 · Suyun 素云 · Biyue 碧月 · Cuilü 翠缕 · Baoqin 抱琴 · Xiaojixiang'r 小吉祥儿 and 5 more
Named on these pages Xiaojixiang'r 小吉祥儿
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
