- Xiahou En
Chinese
t=夏侯恩
s=夏侯恩Xiahou En was a fictional officer of the
Cao Wei in thehistorical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms ". He was said to be born in167 , being a distant nephew ofXiahou Dun .Xiahou En gained acclaim during a hunting trip when he saved
Cao Cao from a tiger, earning the right to bear one of Cao Cao's personal blades, known variously as the Blue Blade or Qinggang (青釭). Subsequently, during an attack on Xu Province, Xiahou En gained fame for his archery, earning comparisons to his cousinXiahou Yuan . Xiahou En served as a front line general in the struggle againstLiu Bei , and at theBattle of Changban of 208, wounded the enemy generalJian Yong in a fierce attack, but was then slain byZhao Yun , who had come in relief of the besieged forces.In the "
Dynasty Warriors " games, Xiahou En held not one, but two swords for Cao Cao but states that one of the two was stolen at Chang Ban; however, his fate remains largely the same as in the novelization.References
*cite book|author=Luo Guanzhong|title=San Guo Yan Yi|publisher=Yue Lu Shu She|year=1986|id=ISBN 7-80520-013-0
*cite book|author=Lo Kuan-chung; tr. C.H. Brewitt-Taylor|title=Romance of the Three Kingdoms|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|year=2002|id=ISBN 0-8048-3467-9External links
* [http://www.kongming.net/novel/sgyy/xiahouen.php Xiahou En bio from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"]
ee also
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Three Kingdoms
*Personages of the Three Kingdoms
*"Records of Three Kingdoms "
*"Romance of the Three Kingdoms "
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