Lady Wang
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–Lady Wang, Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing |
Lady Wang is Hong Lu's mother and the wife of Jia Zheng. She is a supporting character in Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing.
Appearance
Lady Wang has light skin and droopy, dark gray eyes. Her hair is a deep shade of purple, half-tied up with a number of white flowers adorning her head. She wears a deep turquoise hanfu with white ornamentation, and a skirt low enough to reach the floor, a flower pattern visible along one side of its trim. On top of her hanfu, Lady Wang wears a blueish-gray robe with large splits along its sides with a light green and white embroidery pattern of flowers spread throughout the garment.
Personality
Lady Wang is a caring mother towards Hong Lu, valuing him as a treasured jade due to his eye. She is a venerated member of the Jia Family and values this fact greatly, believing Hong Lu should disallow his compatriots from using his birth name of Jia Baoyu, worrying it may become "tarnished."
Story
Upon the return of Hong Lu and Jia Xichun, Lady Wang and Jia Zheng welcome Hong Lu back to the estate. Despite being thankful to see her son return after all these years, she is expectant for him to depart once more some time soon, urging him to do so as soon as possible. She is also somewhat displeased to find that her son has taken on an alias while on his travels, but ultimately concedes after he explains that he wanted to avoid having his name devalued by being repeated too much.
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Trivia
- Lady Wang is based on the character by the same name, Lady Wang (王夫人, Pinyin: Wáng Fūren), from Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
- In Dream of the Red Chamber, Lady Wang is the wife of Jia Zheng, and Jia Baoyu and Jia Yuanchun's mother. While she appears to be a kind, devout Buddhist, she has a cruel side to her as well that she shows to maids she suspects of seducing her son.
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