Ximen Qing

Ximen Qing (left) fights with Wu Song, from the Peking opera Lion Tower.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ximen.

Ximen Qing (Chinese: 西門にしもん慶けい; pinyin: Xīmén Qìng) is a fictional Chinese Song dynasty merchant, womanizer, and murderer in Yanggu County, Shandong. He is the male protagonist in the novel Jin Ping Mei and a minor character in the novel Water Margin.

In both novels, he is portrayed as a lascivious and immoral man who starts a secret affair with Pan Jinlian and helps her poison her husband Wu Dalang to death. Where the two novels differ is what happens when Wu Dalang's brother Wu Song confronts Ximen Qing at Lion Tower. In Water Margin, the older novel, Wu Song kills Ximen Qing in broad daylight and is exiled. In Jin Ping Mei, however, Ximen Qing escapes and bribes the county magistrate to have Wu Song arrested and exiled. Jin Ping Mei then follows Ximen Qing's degenerate pursuits of women and power until he dies from aphrodisiac overdose.

Sexual partners

• Lady Chen (陳ちん氏し), first wife
• Wu Yueniang (吳ご月がつ娘むすめ), second wife
• Li Jiao'er (李り娇兒), first concubine, originally a prostitute
• Zhuo Diu'er (卓たく丟兒), second concubine, originally a prostitute
• Meng Yulou (孟はじめ玉樓ぎょくろう), third concubine, originally the wife of Yang Zongxi
• Sun Xue'e (孫まご雪ゆき娥), fourth concubine, originally a widower
• Pan Jinlian (潘はん金きむ蓮れん), lover, fifth concubine, originally the wife of Wu Dalang
• Li Ping'er (李り瓶びん兒じ), sixth concubine, originally the wife of Hua Zixu
• Pang Xuemei (龐春梅うめ), originally a maid
• Yingchun (迎春げいしゅん), maid
• Xiuchun (秀春ひではる), maid
• Lanchun (蘭らん香が), maid
• Song Huilian (宋そう惠めぐみ蓮はちす), wife of Lai Wang
• Wang Liu'er (王おう六ろく兒じ), wife of Han Daoguo
• Ruyi'er (如意にょい兒じ)
• Ben Sisao (賁四嫂あによめ)
• Huiyuan (惠めぐみ元もと)
• Madam Lin (林はやし太ふとし太ふとし)
• Li Guijie (李り桂かつら姐あね)
• Wu Yin'er (吳ご銀ぎん兒じ)
• Zheng Aiyue (鄭てい愛あい月がつ)
• Zhang Xichun (張ちょう惜春せきしゅん)
• Servant boy, homosexual partner

References

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