Zhan Hu

**Highest Placing Member**: Cherry (Sole Survivor/18)

Zhan Hu was a tribe from Survivor: China.

Former rivalries ruined the original Zhan Hu tribe into smaller factions. This continued into the merge, with pairs either strengthening or dissolving into obscurity. Their tribe colour was gold.

## Tribe History

The gold Zhan Hu tribe was formed on Day 1 of Survivor: China. Caroline and Jade built an alliance because they were new castaways on a tribe of returnees. Meanwhile, the veterans reunited based on their previous appearances. Dion and Miles paired up due to their Kucha connection, as did Aida and Jase from Ogakor. Though Cherry was on Ogakor during *The Australian Outback*, he flipped to Dion and Miles because Aida and Jase were responsible for his elimination. Isobel and Virgil, despite both playing during *Redemption Island*, did not align with each other since they were apart of rival alliances. Isobel joined the trio of Cherry, Dion and Miles whilst Virgil aligned with Aida and Jase. At their first loss on Day 3, the newbie women voted for Dion because of his reputation with idols, Virgil convinced his trio to vote for Isobel because of their rivalry but Cherry, Dion, Isobel and Miles had the majority to eliminate Virgil.

    Aida found the Zhan Hu Hidden Immunity Idol, told Jase and then formed an alliance with the newbie girls to avoid getting picked off by the quartet majority. Their action didn't have the best intentions however, because they knew the majority would pick them off first before eliminating Caroline or Jade. Zhan Hu was now evenly divided, with Aida, Caroline, Jade and Jase on one side and another including Cherry, Dion, Isobel and Miles. When Zhan Hu lost their second challenge in a row, the Kucha-led Alliance voted for Aida over Jase because she appeared physically weaker. However, Aida and Jase were traumatised from their deadlocked vote from *The Australian Outback* and were able to convince Isobel to flip and eliminate Miles in a 5-3 vote.

On Day 10, a tribe switch occurred. Aida, Caroline, Cherry and Dion remained on Zhan Hu, where they were joined by Ashleigh, Fawn and Karleigh. Karleigh and Ashleigh were aligned on the original Fei Long tribe, and attempted to get their former allies Dion and Aida in order to form the majority. However, Aida was aligned with Caroline whereas Dion aligned with Cherry. Aida and Caroline aligned with Ashleigh and Karleigh, though Cherry had some reluctance joining forces with Aida and Ashleigh because they eliminated him on Ogakor back from *The Australian Outback*. Cherry forced Dion to pick a side, and Dion flipped on Cherry to stay with the numbers. The new majority of five now consisted of Aida, Ashleigh, Caroline, Dion and Karleigh. At Zhan Hu's first loss, Cherry was disappointed Dion wouldn't work with him and he was able to convince Fawn to vote with him for Dion. The majority split the votes between Cherry and Fawn in case an idol was played, but neither did and Fawn was voted out. The Zhan Hu tribe then won the remaining two immunity challenges they had together until they merged with Fei Long on Day 18.

## Trivia

* Fei Long and Zhan Hu are the first tribes to have an uneven split of castaways when a tribe switch occurred.
	+ Other tribes with this feat include Galang and Tadhana from Survivor: Blood vs. Water, Nakúm and Yaxhá from Survivor: Guatemala and Maraamu and Rotu from Survivor: Marquesas.