In Fiction
In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Qiao was the father of the two Qiao sisters, and was referred to as "Qiao Guolao" (喬國老; literally: "State Elder Qiao"). He appears in chapter 54 in the events leading to the marriage between Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang.
Read more about this topic: Qiao Xuan
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)