Qin Zhong is a secondary character in Cao Xueqin's classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. He is Qin Keqing's younger brother and Jia Baoyu's handsome best friend and schoolmate. One interpretation is that his name, Qin Zhong, is a pun for qingzhong, and that as his sister Qinshi initiates Baoyu into heterosexual relations in his dream, Qin Zong initiates him into homosexual ones.