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17 unusual facts about Three Kingdoms


Bei Yan

Bei Yan was a military general serving under the warlord Gongsun Yuan during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Cao Xiong

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.

Guan Suo

He is not mentioned in historical records, and appears only in folk tales and in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Suo was described as a capable warrior, and was involved in Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign against the Nanman.

Guan Suo is a fictional character of the Three Kingdoms period who is often depicted as the third son of Guan Yu.

Lady Xie

Lady Xie (birth and death dates unknown) was a concubine of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period.

Lü Boshe

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.

The incident was dramatised in Chapter 4 of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.

This event was dramatised in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which Lü Boshe himself also died at the hands of Cao Cao.

Qwan

Aki Shimizu has drawn a collection of sidestories about the Three Kingdoms's other people, and named it Foreign Grass (異郷の草).

Rafe de Crespigny

The approach owes a great deal to the narrative tradition of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

He specialises in the history, geography and literature of the Han Dynasty and has been acknowledged internationally as a pioneer in the translation and historiography of historical material concerning the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

The defining work of de Crespigny's career would have to be Generals of the South, which narrates the rise of the Sun clan and the formation of the Three Kingdoms tripartite.

During his early years as a scholar and academic, he benefited from the guidance of sinologists such as Hans Bielenstein, Patrick Fitzgerald, Hsü Cho-yün and Miyazaki Ichisada, and developed an interest in the late Han Dynasty through the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Three Kingdoms

Many protested against the overwhelming power of the Sima family; notable among these were the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.

Yang Zuo

Yang Zuo was a military general serving under the warlord Gongsun Yuan during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Zhang Chunhua

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.


Chinese creation myth

However, none of the ancient Chinese classics mentions the Pangu myth, which was first recorded in the (3rd century CE) Sanwu liji 三五歴記 "Historical Records of the Three Sovereign Divinities and the Five Gods", attributed to the Three Kingdoms period Daoist author Xu Zheng.

Dongmyo Station

It is named after a nearby shrine, built during the Joseon dynasty to honor Guan Yu, arguably the most famous Chinese military general from the Three Kingdoms era.

Jian'an poetry

The term Jian'an poetry covers the final years at the end of the Han Dynasty and during which the Cao family was rising, or risen, to prominence were known as the Jian'an era (196-220), the final reign era of Emperor Xian of Han: the following period is known as the Three Kingdoms era, due to the three kingdoms which divided up the Han Dynasty, and war with one another for succession to the Han empire.

Jiang Ji

In 228, being lured by a fake surrender of Eastern Wu general Zhou Fang (Three Kingdoms), Cao Xiu planned to attack Eastern Wu and advanced deeply into the front line Huancheng (皖城).

Ninja Commando

The three heroes chase after their enemy in seven time periods, including the Sengoku period in Japan (where Ryu avenges his ancestor by killing Oda Nobunaga), Ancient Egypt, the Stone Age, China in the era of Three Kingdoms, and World War II.

Qianshan County

The Two Qiaos, two sisters from the Three Kingdoms era were from Wan County, Lujiang Commandery (present-day Qianshan County, Anhui).

Shamoke

Shamoke (died 222) was the king of the tribal people of the five valleys in Wuling during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign

Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign occurred in 238 during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Two-empire system

This system was preceded by Haeckel's three-kingdom system: AnimaliaPlantaeProtista

Wei Feng

The Shiyu (世語) claimed that Wei Feng was a native of Pei (沛; around present-day Pei County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), but the Jia Jie (家誡) by Wang Chang stated that he was from Jiyin (濟陰; around present-day Heze, Shandong).

Xiangzhou District, Xiangyang

It was also an important city during the period of the Three Kingdoms, in the Romance of Three Kingdoms it was said that it was nearby Xiangyang that Zhuge Liang received his three visits from Liu Bei.

Yangpingguan

During the Three Kingdoms period, a number of military engagements were waged in and around Yangpingguan, including the Cao Cao's conquest of Zhang Lu in the Battle of Yangping, Liu Bei's Hanzhong Campaign and the Battle of Mount Dingjun at the nearby Dingjun Mountain.