Lin Chong

Lin Chong
Water Margin character
Lin Chong in an 1886 block print by Yoshitoshi
First appearance	Chapter 7
Nickname	"Panther Head" 豹子頭
Also known as	"Instructor Lin" 林教頭 "Little Zhang Fei" 小張飛
Rank	6th, Majestic Star (天雄星) of the 36 Heavenly Spirits
Right General of the Five Tiger Generals of Liangshan
Origin	Lance instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Guards
Ancestral home / Place of origin	Dongjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan)
Weapon	8-foot-long (2.4 m) Snake Spear (丈八蛇矛); Pudao (朴刀)
Names
Simplified Chinese	林冲
Traditional Chinese	林冲
Pinyin	Lín Chōng
Wade–Giles	Lin Ch'ung

Lin Chong is a fictional character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Panther Head", he ranks sixth among the 36 Heavenly Spirits. In some folk tales derived from the novel, he is said to have learnt martial arts from Zhou Tong, who purportedly trained the Song dynasty general Yue Fei in archery.