Guan Ping 關平

In Chapter 28 of the Romance, Guan Ding, the old master of the manor where Guan Yu stays, says that his surname too is Guan and presents his two sons. Guan Yu introduces them to Liu Bei, saying that the elder son Guan Ning studies letters and the second son Guan Ping studies the martial arts, and Liu Bei proposes that the eighteen-year-old Guan Ping become the son of Guan Yu, who has no son yet. Guan Ping bows to Guan Yu as his father and calls Liu Bei his uncle. Romance, Ch. 28 §46–47 · 52–53

In Chapter 31 he arrives with Guan Yu and Zhou Cang leading 300 soldiers and drives off Zhang He. At Bowang Slope in Chapter 39 he prepares to set fires together with Liu Feng on Zhuge Liang's orders, and in Chapter 49 he lies in ambush on the Huarong Road with Guan Yu and Zhou Cang. In Chapter 57 he and Liu Feng block the waterway upstream of Baqiu and bar Zhou Yu's way. Romance, Ch. 31 §34Romance, Ch. 39 §31Romance, Ch. 49 §39Romance, Ch. 57 §1–2

In Chapter 60 he enters Xichuan following Liu Bei together with Liu Feng, and at Fu Pass in Chapter 62 he leaps out from behind the tent curtains and seizes one of Yang Huai and Gao Pei. In Chapter 63 he and Liu Feng rescue Liu Bei as he is pursued by Zhang Ren, and he carries Liu Bei's letter reporting Pang Tong's death to Jing Province overnight. Zhuge Liang interprets this as a sign that Jing Province is to be entrusted to Guan Yu, and Guan Ping stays in Jing Province assisting Guan Yu. Romance, Ch. 60 §52Romance, Ch. 62 §21Romance, Ch. 63 §22 · 24–25 · 28–29 · 32

In Chapter 66, when Lu Su invites Guan Yu to a banquet, he remonstrates, 'Why would you take your body, worth ten thousand pieces of gold, into a den of tigers and wolves?' Guan Yu does not listen and has him select ten fast boats and 500 marines to wait on the river; when Zhou Cang waves a red flag, Guan Ping's boats cross over to Jiangdong. Romance, Ch. 66 §17–20 · 26

In Chapter 73 he becomes deputy general, strikes Cao Ren's army from the rear together with Liao Hua, and overtakes and beheads the fleeing Zhai Yuan. In Chapter 74 he rebukes Pang De, who has come out with a coffin carried behind him, as 'a traitor who betrayed his lord', and goes out in his father's place to fight him for 30 bouts. When Pang De feigns flight trailing his blade and draws his bow, Guan Ping sees it first and shouts, but Guan Yu is struck in the left arm by the arrow, and Guan Ping rescues his father and brings him back to camp. Romance, Ch. 73 §36 · 42–44Romance, Ch. 74 §11–13 · 19

In Chapter 76, while stationed at Yancheng, he falls for Xu Huang's ruse and loses Yancheng and the camp at Sizhong. With Liao Hua he rescues Guan Yu, whose soldiers have scattered, from encirclement and urges him to enter Maicheng; in Maicheng he draws his sword to cut down Zhuge Jin, who has come to urge surrender, but is stopped by Guan Yu. Romance, Ch. 76 §7–9 · 13–14 · 33 · 45

In Chapter 77 he breaks out through the north gate of Maicheng with Guan Yu, reports that Zhao Lei has died amid the chaos of battle, and on Guan Yu's orders guards the rear. When Guan Yu is captured by Pan Zhang's lieutenant Ma Zhong, he rushes to the rescue, but surrounded by Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran he fights alone until his strength is spent and is captured. Sun Quan, following the advice of Zuo Xian, has Guan Yu taken out, and Guan Yu and his son are killed together in the 12th month, in winter, of the 24th year of Jian'an. Romance, Ch. 77 §6 · 8–9 · 12–13