chéng​yīng

Cheng Ying

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"

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