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Pan Jinlian
| Pan Jinlian | |||||||||
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 Wu Song killing Pan Jinlian, from a 1961 performance of Ouyang Yuqian's drama Pan Jinlian | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 潘金蓮 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 潘金莲 | ||||||||
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Pan Jinlian (Chinese: 潘金蓮; Wade–Giles: P'an Chin-lien) is a fictional character in the 17th-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase), and a minor character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. She is an archetypal femme fatale and one of the most notorious villainesses of classical Chinese culture.[1] She has also become the patron goddess of brothels and prostitutes.[2]
- ^ Yeh, Wen-Hsin (2000). Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-520-22218-2.
- ^ Charles Russell Coulter; Patricia Turner (4 July 2013). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-135-96390-3.
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