Qin Keqing

Qin Keqing

Qin Keqing (Chinese: 秦可卿; Pinyin: Qín Kěqíng) is a major character in Dream of the Red Chamber. She is the wife of Jia Rong, Cavaliar of the Imperial Guards and Baoyu's nephew from the Ningguo House. Therefore, Keqing is Baoyu's niece-in-law. Keqing is generally called Qin Shi(Lady Qin) in the Ningguo House. When Baoyu visited the Ningguo House in Chapter 7 and got tired, Keqing let him sleep in her fabulous room. Apparently a very beautiful and flirtatious woman, Keqing grew ill and died in Chapter 12. Some say that she died because she had had sexual relations with her father-in-law and was scared they had been discovered. After her death, Keqing appeared one more time in a dream and warned Wang Xifeng about the current decline of the Jia family, and gave her a procedure to take in order to save the Jias from unrecoverable ruin.

Keqing's younger brother, Qin Zhong, is Baoyu's best friend.

See also

*Dream of the Red Chamber


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