Yang Bochong (simplified: 杨伯冲, traditional: 楊伯沖, pinyin: Yáng Bóchōng, jyutping: joeng4 baak3 cung1) was the Great Xia of Three Xiang, the husband of Madam Yang and the father of Xiao Zhonghui. He is dead before the story begins and is known only through Xiao Banhe’s account.
Biography
Yang Bochong and the hero Yuan held the Mandarin Duck Blades. When the Emperor learnt of them, he seized both men’s families to force them to give up the blades; both chose death rather than submit, and their wives were thrown into the imperial prison. Xiao Banhe rescued the widows sixteen years before the story, when Yang’s daughter was two, and raised her as his own. He reveals her parentage at the Zhongtiao Mountains, after which she takes her father’s surname.1
See also
- Mandarin Duck Blades characters
- Xiao Banhe — who rescued his widow and raised his daughter
- Xiao Zhonghui — His daughter
- Yuan Guannan — his daughter’s betrothed
- Madam Yang — His wife