Zhou Jingyuan is the twenty-one-year-old third son of Zhou Baoguo and Li Chunxiang, still unmarried. He is handsome with a refined scholarly appearance, resembling Zhou Beihan by about sixty or seventy percent. He is ambitious and arrogant, looking down on village girls and hoping to marry an educated youth with a good family background to follow her back to the city. He envied his second brother for finding a girlfriend.
