A Wisdom Archive on Guo Huai

Jia Nanfeng was born in 257, to the Jin official Jia Chong and his second wife Guo Huai (郭槐). She was their oldest daughter, although Jia Chong had two daughters with his first wife Lady Li prior to his marriage to Lady Guo. They would have one more daughter, Jia Wu (賈午), in 260. They also had two sons, both of whom died young. In 271, as Jia desperately wanted to avoid an assignment to lead an army against the Xianbei rebel Tufa Shujineng (禿髮樹機能), he decided to try to have his daughter married to Emperor Wu's develo ...

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Jia's first wife Lady Li was a daughter of Li Feng (李豐), who was suspected by Sima Shi to have conspired with the emperor Cao Fang in 254 and executed. By that point, Lady Li had borne Jia two daughters -- Jia Bao (賈褒) and Jia Yu (賈裕). Because Jia wanted to show his loyalty to Sima Shi, he divorced Lady Li, who was exiled. He then married Guo Huai (郭槐), who bore him two daughters as well -- Jia Nanfeng and Jia Wu (賈午). She also bore him a son, Jia Limin (賈黎民) -- but her unusual jealousy and cruelty would doom her so ...

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Cáo Pī (曹丕, 187 - 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei (曹魏文帝), courtesy name Zihuan (子桓), was born in Qiao County, Pei Commandery (modern Bozhou, Anhui). He was the second son of the Chinese politician and poet Cao Cao and was the first emperor and the real founder of Cao Wei (also known as "Kingdom of Wei") (see Three Kingdoms). Cao Pi, like his father, was a poet. The first Chinese poem using seven syllables per line (七言詩) was the poem 燕歌行 by Cao Pi. He also wrote ... Including:

• Cao Pi - Family background and early career
• Cao Pi - Events of 220: inheritance of his father's position and seizure of the imperial throne
• Cao Pi - As emperor of Cao Wei
• Cao Pi - Failure to take advantage of the conflict between Liu Bei and Sun Quan
• Cao Pi - Domestic matters
• Cao Pi - Marriage and succession issues
• Cao Pi - Era name
• Cao Pi - Personal information

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Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh (Traditional Chinese: 水滸傳; Simplified Chinese: 水浒传; pinyin: Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn) is one of the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Attributed to Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, the novel details the trials and tribulations of one hundred and eight outlaws during the early 12th century. Water Margin - Historical context and development. Water Margin is vaguely based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his thirty-six compani ... Including:

• Water Margin - Historical context and development
• Water Margin - Authorship and early editions
• Water Margin - Index of the 108 heroes
• Water Margin - The Fictions and Realities
• Water Margin - Outline of Chapters
• Water Margin - Modern transformations

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In 314, Liu Cong made his son Liu Can the prime minister, with paramount powers. This brought fear in the heart of his brother, the crown prince Liu Ai, whose associates subsequently suggested in 315 that he start a coup and overthrow Liu Cong. Liu Ai did not agree to the plot, but news leaked anyway. Liu Cong put Liu Ai under house arrest. Later in 315, Liu Cong took two of his general Jin Zhun's daughters, Jin Yueguang (靳月光) and Jin Yuehua (靳月華) into his palace, and created three empresses Jin Yueguang as Upper Empress, ...

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Zhang He also appears as a character in the popular Dynasty Warriors video game series by Koei, where he is depicted as a narcissist who takes joy in aesthetically appealing things and has excessively effeminate mannerisms, with the frequent use of the words "beautiful" and "graceful". He is also prone to being posing during cutscenes, occasionally surrounded by a number of butterflies. His weapon of choice is a set of slashing claws called Phoenix Claw. His moveset consists of graceful flips ...

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Zhang He - Early career. A local of Mao (鄚, present day Maozhou Town, Hebei), the birth year of Zhang He was not recorded. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in 184, Zhang He joined the volunteer army under Han Fu, governor of Jizhou (冀州, present day southern Hebei) to suppress the rebellion. He was appointed as a middle-ranking army commander. Although the rebellion was soon quelled, it led to the flourishing of many regional armies under the control of de facto warlords. After Emperor Ling passed ...

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