View source for Avatar:Zongying

{{Imported Content
|source=Avatar Wiki
|url=https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Zongying
|date=2025-12-22
|license=CC-BY-SA
}}

{{Icons|Earth Kingdom}}
{{Quote|earth|I entreat you... my dear, eminent, respected, wise and, dare I say, more than a little handsome, gentlemen, to lavish upon me the tale of the Avatar... from the beginning.|Zongying to [[Pakku]], [[Bumi (King of Omashu)|Bumi]], and [[Iroh]].<ref name="QfB" />}}

{{Character infobox
| nation        = earth
| image         = Zongying.png
| nickname      = 
| nationality   = [[Earth Kingdom]]
| ethnicity     = 
| residence     = [[Ba Sing Se]], Earth Kingdom
| age           = 
| birth         = 
| eyes          = 
| hair          = Gray
| skincolor     = Light
| pronouns      = She/her<ref name="QfB">{{Cite video game|QfB}}</ref>
| loveinterest  = 
| allies        = [[Pakku]], [[Bumi (King of Omashu)|Bumi]], [[Iroh]]
| enemies       = 
| weapon        = 
| fightingstyle = 
| profession    = Theater director
| position      = Director of the Ba Sing Se Players
| affiliation   = 
| appearance    = ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance]]'' {{oa}}
| voice         = [[IMDb:nm2800003|Michelle Wong]]
}}'''Zongying''' was an [[Earth Kingdom]] [[Arts in the World of Avatar#Theater|theater]] director in charge of the Ba Sing Se Players. She planned to write a revised edition of ''[[The Boy in the Iceberg (play)|The Boy in the Iceberg]]'' to commemorate [[Team Avatar]]'s victory over the [[Fire Nation]].<ref name="QfB" />

== History ==
Zongying arranged a meeting with [[Iroh]] so that she could confirm some details about Team Avatar's adventures with him, Master [[Pakku]], and [[Monarch of Omashu|King]] [[Bumi (King of Omashu)|Bumi]], stating that she would only take a few minutes. She arrived to meet with them at the [[Jasmine Dragon]] when the three friends were just about to play [[Pai Sho]] together.

The director explained that she was well aware that the [[Ember Island Players]]' version of ''The Boy in the Iceberg'' contained severe [[History of the World of Avatar|historical]] inaccuracies. As [[Zuko]] was set to become the new [[Fire Lord]] very soon, she found it the appropriate time to set the record straight on Team Avatar's adventures, and believed that there was nobody better to ask than the three [[Bending arts|bending]] masters, since they had "seen it all". She surprised the three friends by asking for an extremely detailed version of Team Avatar's adventures, and said that she wanted to hear everything that happened, without any embellishments of any kind. She promised she would be "quiet as a [[Fauna in the World of Avatar|lizard mouse]]", although she continued to make interjections at various points of the story.

Pakku told Zongying the story from the time of [[Avatar]] [[Aang]]'s disappearance from the [[Southern Air Temple]], up to the [[Siege of the North]]. Bumi told the next part of the story, up to the [[Coup of Ba Sing Se]], while Iroh completed the story up to the return of [[Sozin's Comet]] and the end of the [[Hundred Year War]]. Despite Zongying's request for an extremely accurate version of the story, the masters' retelling did hold various deviations from the true story. When the masters finished their retelling, however, Zongying also began to muse on how she could further "improve" the story's ending. As Iroh questioned her intent, the director declared that people always wanted something new and exciting, effectively revealing that she had no intention to stick to the truth in her play. As she began to excitedly speculate on increasingly odd variations of Team Avatar's adventure, Zongying left the Jasmine Dragon to start writing her play.<ref name="QfB" />

== Personality ==
Zongying was a rather bold and theatrical woman. She seemed rather flirtatious, complimenting Pakku, Bumi, and Iroh for their good looks and charm. Zongying also seemed somewhat talkative, despite her insistence that she would quietly listen along to their story.<ref name="QfB" />

== Appearances ==
=== ''Avatar'' games ===
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance]]''

== Trivia ==
* Two of Zongying's ideas on how to improve the tale of Team Avatar seem to reference inside jokes: She wanted [[Appa]] and [[Momo]] to be able to talk to each other,<ref name="QfB" /> a concept humorously explored in ''[[Nightmares and Daydreams]]'';<ref name="ND">{{Cite episode|1|309}}</ref> and for [[Katara]] to become [[Fire Lord]],<ref name="QfB" /> a concept sometimes speculated upon in the fandom due to Katara (not [[Zuko]]) being the one to defeat [[Azula]] in the [[Comet-Enhanced Agni Kai|Agni Kai for the throne]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Earth Kingdom characters]]
[[Category:Video game characters]]