Pan Jinlian

Pan Jinlian
Pan Jinlian
	Wu Song killing Pan Jinlian, from a 1961 performance of Ouyang Yuqian's drama Pan Jinlian
Traditional Chinese	潘金蓮
Simplified Chinese	潘金莲
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Pān Jīnlián
Wade–Giles	P'an Chin-lien

Pan Jinlian (Chinese: 潘金蓮; Wade–Giles: P'an Chin-lien) is a fictional character in the 17th-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase), and a minor character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. She is an archetypal femme fatale and one of the most notorious villainesses of classical Chinese culture.^[1] She has also become the patron goddess of brothels and prostitutes.^[2]

^ Yeh, Wen-Hsin (2000). Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-520-22218-2.
^ Charles Russell Coulter; Patricia Turner (4 July 2013). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-135-96390-3.

[Yeh-1] Yeh, Wen-Hsin (2000). Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-520-22218-2.

[CoulterTurner2013-2] Charles Russell Coulter; Patricia Turner (4 July 2013). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-135-96390-3.

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