chéng​yīng

Cheng Ying

Senses

程婴/ 程嬰 chéng​yīng Cheng Ying

A famous righteous person of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period, known for sacrificing his own reputation and later his life to protect the orphan of the Zhao family, as recounted in the historical text 史记 shǐ​jì and later dramatized in the play "The Orphan of Zhao"

References

see 公孙杵臼/公孫杵臼 程婴/程嬰