The Ruan family were loyal to the Cao Wei, as opposed to the Sima family, however their moral convictions and willingness to speak out generally outmatched their actual military or political power.
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Ruan Ji witnessed bloody wars, struggles for power in the court of Wei, and the Sima family's rise.
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This version of Nagamasa also appears in the spin-off series Warriors Orochi as an unlockable character for the Cao Wei storyline.
Cao Xiong (birth and death dates unknown) was a son of Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to power towards the end of the Han Dynasty and laid the foundation of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period.
In 236 under the order of Emperor Ming of Cao Wei, Sima Yi conquered the Gongsun family and annexed Liaodong, Lelang and Daifang to Wei.
They were sent to attack Nan'an, but were captured and executed by the Cao Wei general Guo Huai.
Empress Zhen (Cao Fang) (甄皇后, personal name unknown) (died 251), wife of Cao Fang of Cao Wei
In 263, during the campaign on Shu by the rival state of Cao Wei, Fu Qian was sent into battle to resist the enemy.
Local legends accounted that the name came from the famous general, Guan Yu (关羽), who stopped by in the area on his way to look for his sworn brother, Liu Bei, the founder of the Shu Han Kingdom (221-263) in the southwest, after having left Cao Cao of the Cao Wei Kingdom (220-265) in China proper.
Lü Boshe (birth and death dates unknown) was an old acquaintance of Cao Cao, a prominent warlord who rose to power towards the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and established the foundation of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period.
In 319, he took a title one stop from that—by declaring himself the Prince of Jin, the same title that the founding emperor Emperor Wu's father Sima Zhao took during his stint as Cao Wei's regent.
Her father Zhang Wang (張汪) served as the Prefect (令) of Suyi (粟邑) in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
Zhuanxu was subsequently claimed as an ancestor by many of the dynasties of Chinese history, including the Mi of Chu and Yue, the Ying of Qin, and the Cao of Wei.
Guo Yi, a minister of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history whose Chinese style name was Boyi (伯益)
Battle of Didao, between the states of Shu Han and Cao Wei in 255
In the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, Guo Huai has much the same role as a commander of Cao Wei troops against Jiang Wei, but his end is altered; he is killed by Jiang Wei in the Battle of Lintao in 253 AD, rather than dying of illness.
Jia Chong's father Jia Kui was a military general of Cao Wei and considered an epitome of faithfulness to the state.
He also compiled a number of historical events from the Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Jin, Northern Zhou, and Sui, commenting on their successes and failures and the reasons, into a 30-volume work known as the Summaries of the Six Dynasties (六代略).
According to the Record of Shu (蜀記) by Wang Yin (王隱), after Shu Han was conquered by Cao Wei in 263, Pang massacred the descendants of Guan Yu to avenge his father.
Zhongda, the style name of Sima Yi, Cao Wei's general during China's Three Kingdoms period
Not long after the end of the first expedition, Eastern Wu inflicted a defeat on Cao Wei at the Battle of Shiting, on the Hefei battlegrounds.