Huang Chengyan

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Huang Chenyan (黃承彥) was a prominent scholar in the Longzhong commandry around the time of the later Han Dynasty. His wife was the sister of warlord Liu Biao's wife (mother of Liu Biao's son, Liu Cong, who inherited Liu Biao's fiefdom), and the sister of Liu Biao's most powerful general, Cai Mao. They had a daughter, Huang Yueying, wife of the esteemed Zhuge Liang. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that in the Battle of Yiling, Huang Chenyan helped Lu Xun through the Stone Sentinel Maze.