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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms | | | |  Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Zhang Liao - Life
Zhang Liao - Early life.
A local of Mayi (马邑, present day Shuo County, Shanxi), Zhang Liao was originally surnamed Nie. He served as a local administrative officer during his younger days. Towards the end of the Han Dynasty, Ding Yuan, governor of Bingzhou (并州, present day Shanxi), favored Zhang Liao's martial skills and recruited him.
In 189, Ding Yuan and his most trusted aide Lü Bu led troops into Luoyang to assist General-in-Chief He Jin to eliminate the powerful eunuch faction. However, He Ji ...
See also:Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao - Life, Zhang Liao - Early life, Zhang Liao - Battle of Leisure Ford, Zhang Liao - Late life, Zhang Liao - Zhang Liao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Liao - Reference Read more here: » Zhang Liao: Encyclopedia II - Zhang Liao - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Pang De - Life Pang De initially served under Ma Teng, a warlord occupying northwestern China. He participated in many campaigns, during which he displayed extraordinary valor. After Ma Teng died in 211, his son Ma Chao launched an offensive against Cao Cao but ultimately lost. Pang De then followed Ma Chao to Hanzhong, where the latter submitted to the governor Zhang Lu (张鲁).
After Cao Cao took down Hanzhong, Ma Chao left to seek service under Liu Bei. Pang De, however, surrendered to Cao Cao together with many others. Well aware of Pang De's valiance in battle, Cao Cao made ...
See also:Pang De, Pang De - Life, Pang De - Pang De in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pang De - Reference Read more here: » Pang De: Encyclopedia II - Pang De - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Zhang Liao - Zhang Liao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a historical novel by Luo Guanzhong, was a romanticization of the events that occurred before and during the Three Kingdoms Period. In the novel, Zhang Liao was depicted as a loyal and upright general. While this might not be untrue, such portrayal was likely the result of artistic simplificaton.
In Chapter 18, where he still served under Lü Bu, Zhang Liao was sent with a force to attack Liu Bei at Xiaopei (小沛, present day Pei County, Jiangsu). From the city wall Guan Yu addressed the att ...
See also:Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao - Life, Zhang Liao - Early life, Zhang Liao - Battle of Leisure Ford, Zhang Liao - Late life, Zhang Liao - Zhang Liao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Liao - Reference Read more here: » Zhang Liao: Encyclopedia II - Zhang Liao - Zhang Liao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Sun Jian - Life
Sun Jian - Early life and career.
Born in the Fuchun Prefecture of the Wu Commandery (吳郡富春, present day Fuyang, Zhejiang), Sun Jian was said to be a descendant of the renowned military strategist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War. He was a civil officer in his prefecture during his youth. When he was sixteen, Sun Jian travelled with his father to Qiantang (錢唐, present day Hanzhou, Zhejiang), where they came upon a band of pirates dividing up their spoils on land. Sun Jian jumped on shore with a ...
See also:Sun Jian, Sun Jian - Life, Sun Jian - Early life and career, Sun Jian - Coalition against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian - Late life, Sun Jian - Reference Read more here: » Sun Jian: Encyclopedia II - Sun Jian - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Cao Zhen - Life According to the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhen was a distant nephew of Cao Cao. In 190, when Cao Cao was raising an army to join the coalition against Dong Zhuo, the tyrannical warlord who held Emperor Xian hostage, Cao Zhen's father Cao Shao heeded the call but was killed before he could join Cao Cao.
The Brief History of Wei (魏略) by Yu Huan (鱼豢), however, says Cao Zhen was originally surnamed Qin (秦). Cao Zhen's father Qin Bonan had long been friends with Cao Cao. In 195, as Cao Cao was fleeing f ...
See also:Cao Zhen, Cao Zhen - Life, Cao Zhen - Cao Zhen in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhen - The Cao clan, Cao Zhen - Direct descendants, Cao Zhen - Extended family, Cao Zhen - Reference Read more here: » Cao Zhen: Encyclopedia II - Cao Zhen - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Sun Ce - Life
Sun Ce - Early life and career.
Born in 175, Sun Ce was the eldest among four sons of Sun Jian, a military general loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. In 190, a year after Emperor Ling died, the warlord Dong Zhuo usurped power, placing in the throne the puppet Emperor Xian. Regional warlords in eastern China then formed a coalition against Dong Zhuo. Sun Jian rendered his service to Yuan Shu, one of the leaders of the coalition. The attempt to oust Dong Zhuo soon failed and China slid into a series of massiv ...
See also:Sun Ce, Sun Ce - Life, Sun Ce - Early life and career, Sun Ce - A kingdom's beginning, Sun Ce - Late life, Sun Ce - Dispute over cause of death, Sun Ce - Miscellaneous, Sun Ce - Dynasty Warriors, Sun Ce - Notes, Sun Ce - Reference Read more here: » Sun Ce: Encyclopedia II - Sun Ce - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Cao Chun - Life Born in 170, Cao Chun was a younger brother of Cao Ren. When Cao Chun was thirteen, their father died and the brothers took over the family estates and several hundred servants in their employ, whom Cao Chun managed well. Being well-learned himself, Cao Chun also befriended scholars, who flocked to him.
At seventeen, Cao Chun entered the Han imperial court in Luoyang as the Attendant at the Yellow Gates (黄门侍郎, a spokesman for the emperor). In 189, Cao Chun joined his elder cousin Cao Cao's army and followed him to war against Dong Zhuo, the tyrannical warl ...
See also:Cao Chun, Cao Chun - Life, Cao Chun - The Cao Clan, Cao Chun - Direct descendants, Cao Chun - Immediate family, Cao Chun - Extended family, Cao Chun - Reference Read more here: » Cao Chun: Encyclopedia II - Cao Chun - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Cao Ren - Life Born in the county of Qiao (谯, present day Bozhou, Anhui), Cao Ren was a younger cousin of Cao Cao. His grandfather and father had both held significant civil and military posts. Cao Ren was fond of hunting on horseback in his youth. During the years of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he gathered more than a thousand young men under his flag and wandered the area between Huai River and Si River (泗水).
In 190, Cao Cao was raising an army to join the coalition against Dong Zhuo, the tyrannical warlord who held the emperor hostage. Cao ...
See also:Cao Ren, Cao Ren - Life, Cao Ren - The Cao clan, Cao Ren - Direct Descendants, Cao Ren - Immediate family, Cao Ren - Extended family, Cao Ren - Reference Read more here: » Cao Ren: Encyclopedia II - Cao Ren - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Cao Xiu - Life According to the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Xiu lost his father before he turned twenty, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. Bringing along his old mother, Cao Xiu moved south across the Yangtze River away from the rebel-infested north.
When Cao Cao was raising an army to join the coalition against Dong Zhuo in 190, Cao Xiu heeded the call. Cao Cao was pleased to see his distant nephew, whom he described as the thousand-li horse of his family. He also had Cao Xiu reside with his future successor Cao Pi, and treated Cao Xiu like his own son. Henceforth Cao Xiu followed Cao ...
See also:Cao Xiu, Cao Xiu - Life, Cao Xiu - The Cao clan, Cao Xiu - Direct descendants, Cao Xiu - Extended family, Cao Xiu - Reference Read more here: » Cao Xiu: Encyclopedia II - Cao Xiu - Life |
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| | | | Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Cao Zhi - Poetry Despite his failure in politics, Cao Zhi was hailed as one of the representatives of the poetic style of his time, together with his father Cao Cao, his elder brother Cao Pi and several other poets. Their poems formed the backbone of what was to be known as the jian'an style (建安风骨). The civil strife towards the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty gave the jian'an poems their characteristic solemn yet heart-stirring tone, while lament over the ephemerality of life was also a central theme of works from this period. In terms of the history of Chinese literature, the jian'an poems were a transition from the earl ...
See also:Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi - Life, Cao Zhi - Poetry, Cao Zhi - Cao Zhi in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhi - The Cao clan, Cao Zhi - Direct descendant, Cao Zhi - Immediate family, Cao Zhi - Extended family, Cao Zhi - Reference Read more here: » Cao Zhi: Encyclopedia II - Cao Zhi - Poetry |
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