Huang Chengyan

Huang Chengyan
A Qing dynasty portrait of Huang Chengyan
Born	(Unknown)
Died	(Unknown)
Names
Traditional Chinese	黃承彥
Simplified Chinese	黄承彦
Pinyin	Huáng Chéngyàn
Wade–Giles	Huang Ch'eng-yen

Huang Chengyan (birth and death dates unknown) was a scholar who lived in the Eastern Han dynasty. He was from Miannan (沔南), Jing Province, which is around present-day Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei. He was known for being carefree and open-minded.

Huang Chengyan married the elder daughter of Cai Feng (蔡諷). They had a daughter, whose name was not recorded in history and is better known by her fictional name, Huang Yueying. Huang Yueying married Zhuge Liang, a chancellor and regent of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period. Cai Feng's younger daughter married Liu Biao, the Governor of Jing Province in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Cai Feng also had a son, Cai Mao.

Huang Chengyan is a character in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. He first appeared in chapter 37 when Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were visiting Zhuge Liang's house. He appeared again in chapter 84 after the Battle of Xiaoting, in which he led Lu Xun out of Zhuge Liang's Stone Sentinel Maze.