In 167 CE, the Grand Commandant Dou Wu ( d. 168 CE ) convinced his son-in-law, Emperor Huan, to release them.

Following Huan's death, Dou Wu and the Grand Tutor Chen Fan ( 陳蕃 ) ( d. 168 CE ) attempted a coup d ' état against the eunuchs Hou Lan ( d. 172 CE ), Cao Jie ( d. 181 CE ), and Wang Fu ( 王甫 ).

He and his troops confronted Dou Wu and his retainers at the palace gate where each side shouted accusations of treason against the other.

When the retainers gradually deserted Dou Wu, he was forced to commit suicide.

There were also other types of triumvirates during the Eastern Han ; for example, at the onset of the reign of Emperor Ling of Han ( r. 168 – 189 ), the General-in-Chief Dou Wu ( d. 168 ), the Grand Tutor Chen Fan ( d. 168 ), and another prominent statesman Hu Guang ( 91 – 172 ) formed a triumvirate nominally in charge of the Privy Secretariat, when in fact it was a regent triumvirate overseeing the affairs of state and Emperor Ling.

* Grand Empress Dowager Dou ( 141 BC-135 BC ), during the reign of Emperor Wu

In 179 BC, after some hesitation ( during which he, apparently influenced by the theory of chanrang ( 禪讓 ), thought that maybe it would be more proper for him to find the wisest person in the empire and offer the throne to him, or that he should consider offering the throne to his uncle Liu Jiao ( 劉交 ), the Prince of Chu ; his cousin Liu Pi ( 劉濞 ), the Prince of Wu ; or his younger brother Liu Chang ( 劉長 ), the Prince of Huainan ), he created his oldest son Liu Qi the Crown Prince and Prince Qi's mother, Consort Dou, Empress.

** Empress Dou, mother of Emperor Jing, Prince Wu and Princess Piao

He also developed deep bonds with his older sister Princess Liu Piao ( 劉嫖 ) and his younger brother Liu Wu ( 劉武 ), both also born of Empress Dou.

His mother, the Dowager Empress Dou, wanted him to make his younger brother Liu Wu, the Prince of Liang, the crown prince, but this did not happen because of opposition by officials.

Zhou, later as prime minister, offended virtually every powerful figure around Emperor Jing — his brother Prince Liu Wu and his mother Empress Dowager Dou ( for refusing to save Liang first when Liang was sieged by Wu and Chu forces ), and his wife Empress Wang and her brother Wang Xin ( 王信 ), whom Emperor Jing wanted to create a marquess but whose candidacy was rebuffed by Zhou.

This time Zhang Rang and his accomplices succeeded in completely dominating the political scene after prevailing over Empress Dowager Dou's father Dou Wu and his ally, the Confucian scholar Chen Fan ( 陳蕃 ) in 168.

For reasons unknown, her assistant Liu Shu ( 劉儵 ) recommended Marquess Hong, and after consulting with her father Dou Wu and the Confucian scholar official Chen Fan, Empress Dowager Dou made him emperor, at age 12.

The empress dowager's father Dou Wu and Chen became the most important officials in the imperial government, and they sought to purge the government of eunuch influences.

Dou Wu resisted, but was eventually defeated, and he committed suicide.

Earlier rock music groups include " Infallible " ( Budaoweng 不倒翁 ), formed by Zang Tianshuo and Tang Dynasty ( Tang Chao, 唐朝 ) lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Ding Wu ( 丁武 ), and probably the most famous of all Chinese rock bands: " Black Panther " ( Hei Bao 黑豹 ), originally fronted by China's alternative music pioneer Dou Wei ( 窦唯 ).

Prince Wu and Empress Dowager Dou, still bearing grudges, also attacked him incessantly whenever they could.

Soon, joining their side would be Emperor Jing's empress Wang Zhi and her brother Wang Xin, whom Empress Dowager Dou wanted to create a marquess ( for his assistance in having Prince Wu pardoned in 148 BC after he had several officials assassinated ) but whose candidacy was repeatedly rebuffed by Zhou.

A major concern for Empress Dou was the welfare of her young son, Liu Wu, who had by that point been created the Prince of Liang, and he, at her suggestion, seriously considered making him crown prince over one of his own sons, although he ultimately did not do so.

Zhou's strategy would lead to victory, but would also earn him the enmity of Prince Wu and Empress Dowager Dou.

( When the imperial train could not locate Prince Wu, both Emperor Jing and Empress Dowager Dou was greatly distressed, and she accused him of killing Prince Wu.

Complex systems of predicting fate and destiny based on one's birthday, birth season, and birth hours, such as ziping and Zi Wei Dou Shu () are still used regularly in modern day Chinese astrology.

* Dou Kang, Chinese general and briefly a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

* February – The Chinese Han Dynasty launches a major campaign against the Xiongnu, whom they confront in the Battle of Yiwulu in the Kumul oasis, an ultimate Han military victory led by General Dou Gu ( d. 88 ).

* Chinese generals Dou Gu ( Teou Kou ) and Geng Bing ( Keng Ping ) take control of Turpan.

Zhangdi is succeeded by his 9-year old son Zhao, who will reign until 105 as emperor Han Hedi, but he will be a virtual pawn of Empress Dou ( adoptive mother ) and scheming courtiers who will effectively rule the Chinese Empire.

* June – The Han Chinese army under Dou Xian ( d. 92 ), allied with the southern Xiongnu, is victorious over the Northern Xiongnu in the Battle of Ikh Bayan.

* Dou Xian, Chinese politician

* Dou Wei, a Chinese official of the Sui Dynasty who served briefly as chancellor for the Tang Dynasty until his death ( of illness ) in the same month

Dou Xian (; Wade-Giles: Tou Hsien, d. AD 92 ) was a prominent Chinese general and statesman of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

* Prince of Xia, Dou Jiande ( 573-621 ), Chinese warlord during the turbulent transition from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty

The Injustice to Dou E ( 竇娥冤 Dou E Yuan ), also known as The Injustice Done to Tou Ngo and Snow in Midsummer, is a Chinese drama by Guan Hanqing written during the Yuan Dynasty.

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Dou Wei (; born October 14, 1969 ) is a Chinese musician, singer-songwriter and composer.

Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong ( born January 3, 1997 ), born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, and the other one born to his ex-wife, photographer Gao Yuan.

* Dou Wei · Huan Shui Meng Tian ( Chinese and English )

* Chinese Rock Database: Dou Wei ( Japanese )

The headliners, besides Zhang Chu, also included Dou Wei ( former lead singer of the early Chinese rock group Black Leopard ) and He Yong ( one of the first Chinese punk rockers ).

Ban later served as a high-ranking literary official under Dou Xian, the brother of Emperor Zhang's empress.

Emperor Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.

Taking advantage of civil war in the Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese ( Wu Hu ) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.

The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.

Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

Water is one of the elements in ancient Greek philosophy, in the Asian Indian system Panchamahabhuta, and in the Chinese cosmological and physiological system Wu Xing.

The Wu Xing, ( 五行 wŭ xíng ) also known as the Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, and the Five Steps / Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun ( 五運 wŭ yùn ) or a combination of the two characters ( Wu Xing-Yun ) these emphasise the correspondence of five elements to five ' seasons ' ( four seasons plus one ).

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

The Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty introduced reforms that have governed the Chinese calendar ever since.

* Wu Xing, sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism

Imperial China produced only one reigning empress, Wu Zetian, and she used the same Chinese title as an emperor ( Huangdi, 皇帝 ).

The Chinese " Wu Ching Tsung Yao " ( Complete Essentials from the Military Classics ), written by Tseng Kung-Liang between 1040 – 1044, provides encyclopedia references to a variety of mixtures which included petrochemicals, as well as garlic and honey.

As Confucianism became the preferred philosophy of later Chinese dynasties, starting from the Emperor Wu of Han, Mohism and other non-Confucian philosophical schools of thought were suppressed.

Image: EightySevenCelestials3. jpg | Eighty-Seven Celestials, by Wu Daozi ( 685-758 ), Chinese

Like the elongated scroll scenes of Kaizhi, Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) Chinese artists like Wu Daozi painted vivid and highly detailed artwork on long horizontal handscrolls ( which were very popular during the Tang ), such as his Eighty Seven Celestial People.

* 1984 – Wu Qian, Chinese classical pianist

* 1953 – Wu Shu-chen, Chinese wife of Chen Shui-bian

The Chinese poet Wu Li wrote a poem, which included a line about the Portuguese in Macau being supplied with fish by the Tanka.

Aside from Mandarin, the other six are Wu Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Min Chinese, Xiang Chinese, Yue Chinese and Gan Chinese.