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Zhao Min

Zhao Min
Created by Jin Yong
Appearances The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
Personal information
Alias(es) Minmin Temür (敏敏特穆儿) (birth name)
Gender Female
Family Chaghan Temür (father),
Köke Temür (brother)
Spouse(s) Zhang Wuji
Skills and abilities
Armed combat skills Wudang Sect skills,
Shaolin Sect skills,
Emei Sect skills,
Kunlun Sect skills,
Kongtong Sect skills,
Mount Hua Sect skills
Weapons Heaven Reliant Sword
Zhao Min
Traditional Chinese 趙敏
Simplified Chinese 赵敏

Zhao Min, birth name Minmin Temür (敏敏特穆儿), title Princess Shaomin (邵敏郡主), is one of the two female lead characters in the wuxia novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). Jin Yong describes her appearance as "naturally elegant and graceful, with a bright countenance".

Zhao Min is the daughter of Chaghan Temür, the Prince of Ruyang (汝陽王) of the Yuan dynasty. Her elder brother is Köke Temür. As a child, Zhao Min was ambitious and full of vigour, eager to take on duties that are traditionally done by men in the male dominant society of her time. Her father, a general, is appointed by the emperor to eradicate the rebel organisation Ming Cult and bring order to the wulin (martial artists' community). Zhao Min helps her father with her wit and intelligence.

Zhao Min makes her first appearance in the story by using the Ten Fragrances Tendon Weakening Powder (十香軟筋散) to poison several martial artists from the six major orthodox sects in the wulin, including the "Seven Heroes of Wudang" and Abbess Miejue of the Emei Sect. They are captured by Zhao Min and her men, and are imprisoned in Wan'an Monastery. As the six sects have recently come to a truce with the Ming Cult, Zhao Min intends to lure Zhang Wuji, the new leader of the cult, into a trap and capture him too. Zhang Wuji travels to Green Willow Mountain Manor to meet Zhao Min, without knowing her true identity. When Zhao Min attempts to poison Zhang Wuji with the powder, the latter sees through her plans and stops her through frolicking and romantic moments in an underground chamber.

Zhao Min also improves her martial arts prowess by tricking the captured martial artists into displaying their skills, lying that she will set them free if they can defeat her men, while secretly noting down their movements and learning them. Despite standing on opposing grounds with Zhang Wuji, she gradually falls in love with her rival and asks him to let her to follow him on his adventures, as part of her three conditions in freeing the captured martial artists. On Divine Serpent Island, Zhao Min is wrongly accused by Zhang of murdering Yin Li, and robbing him of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Actually, the one responsible is Zhou Zhiruo, who has stolen the secret from the weapons and framed Zhao Min for it. When Zhang encounters Zhao Min later, he wants to kill her but refrains from doing so, because he has fallen in love with her.


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