Jia Yingchun (Chinese: 賈迎春; Pinyin: Jiǎ Yíngchūn) is a major character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is protagonist Jia Baoyu's eldest female first cousin. She is the daughter of Jia She (贾赦, elder brother to Jia Zheng who is Baoyu's father) and one of his concubines, and younger half-sister to Jia Lian. Yingchun is beautiful, very kind-hearted, and well-read. However, she has a "wooden" personality and is not very talented and is essentially fussless. Neither a poet like Daiyu, household manager like Tanchun, or painter like Xichun, she has only her family name to distinguish herself and therefore is called "Blockhead the Second" by her cousins. Yingchun is the second of the quartet of "Springs".
Yingchun is weak-willed and apathetic to worldly affairs. A Taoist, she prefers to read instead of commanding servants whenever possible. Hence many lowly servants freely take advantage of her. Eventually she marries Sun Shaozu (孫紹祖), the sadistic son of a military officer. In the Cheng-Gao ending she becomes a victim of domestic abuse and infidelity from her husband, and eventually withers to her death in the Sun household soon after the Ningguo and Rongguo Mansions are confiscated.
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