Xiangling/Lore

==Personality==
Xiangling loves cooking, having learned the art from her father. She does not have a discerning eye towards a specific type of cuisine, seeing that food is a way to expand and experiment. She will use anything for her recipes, even unconventional ingredients that would gross out others. Some of the bizarre ingredients that Xiangling uses are slimes and lizards. Even if some of the dishes are not to her liking, Xiangling will not give up and simply press on to modify or start over from scratch.
Her unconventional cooking is what led her to acclaim in both Mondstadt and Liyue. Unlike most cooks, Xiangling is not concerned about mora, stating that food is to nourish and that the smiles on her customers' faces is more than enough for her. She dislikes having to limit herself to a specific style of cooking, seeing it as bland and unsurprising. Likewise, she prefers hands-on cooking, believing that automated cooking is inauthentic.
Outside of cooking, Xiangling is easy to scare and is often pranked by Hu Tao. Despite disliking her pranks, Xiangling does not have a grudge towards her because she occasionally brings her gifts in return for giving her a good laugh.
==Appearance==
Xiangling uses the medium female model. She has navy blue hair cut in a bob-like fashion at the front and of unknown length at the back, golden eyes, and a pale complexion.
==Official Introduction==
Liyue is home to two rival culinary traditions, conveniently named the "Li" and "Yue" styles. Foodies in Liyue are staunch supporters of one style or the other, and have long been embroiled in a bitter battle to prove the superiority of their style.
In this war waged by culinary snobs, ostentation is everything, flavor gets forgotten, and nothing is a simple matter of taste. Much to the consternation of Liyue's chefs, the Li vs. Yue debate eats up all of the region's rare cooking ingredients in the pursuit of ever-more-pretentious dishes.
Born into a restaurateur family, Xiangling inherited her fair share of this consternation. But she also chose to inherit the Wanmin Restaurant and become one of the few to push back against the status quo.
"Good food is good food, period!" Xiangling's mantra is an antidote to snobbery as she sets about creating her imaginative and unconventional dishes.
From a pinch of Mist Flower and a drop of Slime Condensate to a handful of unidentified flying insects and even hilichurls' wooden clubs, Xiangling is known to be somewhat adventurous with her choice of cooking ingredients.
Naturally, her unique approach leads to the occasional disastrous dish. But Xiangling never gives up, because of what her father has always said to her: "There are many secrets to cooking; the most important of which is passion."
==Character Stories==
==Namecard==
==Constellation==
==Quests and Events==
==Character Trials==
==Character Mentions==
==Mail==
==Trivia==
* The "master" that Xiangling refers to in her voice-overs is Madame Ping, whom Xiangling reveals is her master during the .
* Between Xiangling's fifth character story and Zhongli's dialogue in the Stone Harbor Treasure Journal event, the addition of Violetgrass to Black-Back Perch Stew is Xiangling's secret touch that not even her father knows about, judging by his expression in the corresponding illustration during the event.
* Based on Xiangling's appearance in Zhongli's Character Tale, set shortly before the , she returned to Liyue sometime after , but likely left some time before the Traveler arrives. Her "as yet-unnamed Springvale Boar dish" is likely the dish she used to beat Brook during the cooking competition in Springvale.
* Xiangling's side portrait (seen on the Character menu and Inventory) used to differ in design from her official art and in-game model: she had a headband, the bow under her braids was located higher up on her head, and the collar of her outfit was primarily yellow instead of black. It was then fixed in 1.4.
* Xiangling is the first character with a Story Quest that takes place outside of her associated region, taking place in Mondstadt while she hails from Liyue. As part of the quest, however, the Traveler travels to the border between Mondstadt and Liyue to collect some Jueyun Chili.
* Xiangling is the first playable character to appear in a Commission (The Gourmet Supremos: Breakthrough Thinking).
* In Xiangling's wish art, she is seen wielding White Tassel, but in her portrait, she is holding an unknown polearm, and uses Dragon's Bane in her official Character Demo.
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* Xiangling shares her Chinese voice actress, Xiao N, with Kamisato Ayaka.
* Xiangling shares her Korean voice actress, Yun A-yeong, with Barbara.
===Etymology===
* Xiangling's Chinese name, , means "Fragrant Water Caltrop."
** She shares her name with a from the (), one of China's "Four Great Classical Novels" which was written in the 18th century. However, there is currently no known relation between the literary character and the Genshin Impact character.
* Her constellation, , is the Latin word for "little ladle."
** Her constellation name was previously "Ladle" (written in English), but was corrected in a later version.
* Guoba () means "," which is the crust of rice formed in the cooking pot.
* She is one of the few people from Liyue whose Japanese name is directly transcribed from Chinese instead of being read as the on'yomi or kun'yomi reading.
==Other Languages==
===Character Title: Exquisite Delicacy===
==References==
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