Dual-identity figures

Some people exist only in the histories, others only in the novels. These 1059 exist in both. The Records of the Three Kingdoms has Guan Yu defeated and executed at Maicheng; the Romance of the Three Kingdoms gives him a duel with Hua Xiong that the histories assign to someone else. The Annals of Yin dispatch King Zhou in a few lines; the Investiture of the Gods builds a war of immortals around him. Open any figure to see both records side by side, each cited to its chapter.

Han Dynasties53 figures

Three Kingdoms354 figures

Sui–Tang183 figures

Immortals & Anomalies63 figures

Northern Song40 figures

Southern Song65 figures

Journey West8 figures

Eastern Zhou354 figures

Shang–Zhou63 figures

Water Margin13 figures

Archaic Myth49 figures

Criterion: the figure appears in both a historical work (Records of the Grand Historian, Records of the Three Kingdoms) and a work of fiction (Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Classic of Mountains and Seas).Data & method →