Zhurong | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 祝融 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 祝融 | ||||||||
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Lady Zhurong, sometimes referred to as Madam Zhurong, is a fictional character in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. She is the wife of the Nanman chieftain Meng Huo, who rules the lands in the Nanzhong region of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She claims descent from the Chinese fire deity Zhurong, from whom she acquires her name. Zhurong is the only woman in the novel who participates in fighting and battles against Shu forces alongside her husband.
In the Beijing opera Dragon and Phoenix Headgear (龍鳳巾), Zhurong and Meng Huo have a daughter named Huaman.