After Charlie Xie finished making the cards for Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun and Wang Xifeng, he felt exhausted and had to rest for a day before continuing to make the remaining character cards of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling.
The first person he wanted to deal with was Jia Qiaojie, the daughter of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, who could just work together as mother and daughter with Wang Xifeng.
Qiaojie did not appear many times in the book Dream of the Red Chamber due to her young age. She was weak and sickly since childhood, sometimes contracting chickenpox and sometimes suffering from convulsions. Wang Xifeng felt that her daughter had a rough fate, so she asked Liu Laolao to help her daughter name it.
Granny Liu was a rough country girl who had no knowledge of culture at all. The reason why Wang Xifeng asked her to name her daughter was mainly because of a folk custom that had been passed down from ancient times that Granny Liu was very long-lived. So asking her to name her daughter could, on the one hand, borrow Granny Liu's longevity so that her daughter could also live a long life. On the other hand, Granny Liu was a rural person who was born in poverty, and having her name her might be able to suppress her daughter's weak and sickly fate.
Since Fengjie's daughter was born on the seventh day of the seventh month, Liu Laolao named her "Qiaojie".
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