High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following is a list of characters from the novel The Deer and the Cauldron by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). Some of these characters previously appeared in another novel Sword Stained with Royal Blood, also by Jin Yong. Some of these characters are also based on historical figures, such as the Kangxi Emperor, Oboi, Wu Sangui, Chen Yuanyuan, Princess Changping, Zheng Keshuang, Feng Xifan, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Sophia Alekseyevna, Wu Liuqi, and Zha Jizuo (a possible ancestor of Jin Yong, whose real name is Zha Liangyong).