Qin Zhong

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Qin Zhong (秦钟) is a secondary character in Cao Xueqin's classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. He is Qin Shi's younger brother and Baoyu's best friend and schoolmate.

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Qin Zhong and Baoyu are around 12 when they meet, and his character is only around for a year or two. His elder sister is Qin Shi, Baoyu's nephew Jia Rong's wife, and so he is technically a generation younger than Baoyu. Both he and Qin Shi are the adopted children of Qin Bang-ye. The two boys get along marvelously and decide to enroll in the Jia clan's school together and become study-mates. He becomes Baoyu's best friend.

Qin Zhong and the little novice nun Sapientia, who grew up visiting the Jia household, eventually fall in love. Sapientia absconds from the Water-Moon Priory and makes her way into the city to find Qin Zhong, but is chased away at the door by his father. After giving Qin Zhong a severe beating, Qin Bang-ye succumbs to anger and shock. Qin Zhong, already just recovering from illness, dies from a combination of the severe beating, and overwhelming grief and remorse.

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