Notes on Diao Chan

DIAO CHAN 貂蝉
c. 169 AD

Descriptions:

1. not found in official history books

Background:

1. singing girl of Wang mansion
2. went to the Wang mansion as a young child
   

Related Characters:

1. Prime Minister Wang Yun 王允
   
2. Tyrant Dong Zhuo 董卓
   
3. General Lv Bu 吕布
   

Story:

1. Wang Yun explains to Diao Chan that the tyrant Dong Zhuo is trying to take over the world. Wang Yun wants Diao Chan to help him turn Dong Zhuo's adopted son Lv Bu against Dong Zhuo. Diao Chan, who regards Wang Yun as a father, agrees.
   
2. Wang Yun presents Diao Chan to Dong Zhuo as a concubine while presenting her as a wife to Lv Bu. Both fall in love with Diao Chan, who tries additionally to make the two men jealous of each other.
   
3. Lv Bu helps Wang Yun assassinate Dong Zhuo.
4. Some say that Wang Yun and Diao Chan were killed; other sources say that Diao Chan and Lv Bu fell in love and ran off, though they were killed in this story as well.
   

Reorganized from this source.