Two Qiaos

Da Qiao (Older Qiao)
Born	(Unknown)
Died	(Unknown)
Names
Traditional Chinese	大喬 / 大橋
Simplified Chinese	大乔 / 大桥
Pinyin	Dà Qiáo
Wade–Giles	Ta Ch'iao

Xiao Qiao (Younger Qiao)
Born	(Unknown)
Died	(Unknown)
Names
Traditional Chinese	小喬 / 小橋
Simplified Chinese	小乔 / 小桥
Pinyin	Xiǎo Qiáo
Wade–Giles	Hsiao Ch'iao

The Two Qiaos of Jiangdong (traditional Chinese: 江東二喬; simplified Chinese: 江东二乔; pinyin: Jiāngdōng èr Qiáo) were two sisters of the Qiao family who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Their names were not recorded in history, so in later times they are simply referred to as Da Qiao (literally "older Qiao") and Xiao Qiao (literally "younger Qiao"). They were from Wan County (皖縣), Lujiang Commandery (廬江郡), which is in present-day Anqing, Anhui. Da Qiao married the warlord Sun Ce, who established the foundation of the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period; Xiao Qiao married Zhou Yu, a general who served under Sun Ce and later under his successor Sun Quan.

The Qiao sisters are featured as characters in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi), which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. In the novel, the Chinese character for "Qiao" in their names, 橋, is replaced with 喬.

In the novel, the Qiao sisters were the daughters of a Qiao Guolao (喬國老; literally "State Elder Qiao"), possibly referring to Qiao Xuan. Zhou Yu's biography in the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) did not mention the name of the Qiao sisters' father, who was simply referred to as Qiao Gong (橋公; literally "Elder Qiao" or "Lord Qiao"). Historically, Qiao Xuan died in 183, while the Qiao sisters married Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in 200, so it was not possible that Qiao Xuan was still living when the marriages took place. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that Qiao Xuan was the "Qiao Gong" mentioned in Zhou Yu's biography.

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