* Confirming the descriptions of bulkhead hull compartments for Chinese sailing ships in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119, a large Song Dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A. D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China that had 12 bulkhead compartment rooms in its hull.

Ships built in this manner were written of in Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks, published by 1119 AD during the Song Dynasty.

According to Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks (; Pingzhou Ketan ) of 1119, Shen Kuo had two marriages ; the second wife was the daughter of Zhang Chu (), who came from Huainan.

However, Zhu Yu's book recounts events back to 1086, when Shen Kuo was writing the Dream Pool Essays ; this meant that in Shen's time the compass might have already been in navigational use.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period, there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

With this book, Zhu brought Chinese algebra to its highest level.

The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.

Zhu Xi organized the book as Jing followed by ten expositions.

In some researches to the book, it is said that Zhu Bajie deliberately does not use his real power on the journey as he knows every time Monkey King would come and save them all.

Zhu bajie in this reagard is best of the best, take a plot in the book which is about eating watermelon for example, when he gets a watermelon, watermelon into four pieces to share with his colleages equally.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

In 1286, he happened to read a book of Zhu Xi in Yanjing.

The fundamental assumption of the book — that Zhu Di dispatched the Ming fleets because he had a " grand plan ", a vision of charting the world and creating a maritime empire spanning the oceans — is simply asserted by Menzies without a shred of proof ...

Lixue was a philosophical position of a small group of twelfth-century neo-Confucianists ( including Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi ); Feng's book took certain metaphysical notions from their thought and from taoism ( such as li and tao ), analysed and developed them in ways that owed much to the Western philosophical tradition, and produced a rationalistic neo-Confucian metaphysics.

* The Chinese / American author Zhu Xiao Di wrote a book about Judge Dee called Tales of Judge Dee ( 2006 ).

Yang Hui triangle ( Pascal's triangle ) using Counting rods | rod numerals, from a book by mathematician Zhu Shijie, 1303

The book of the author Zhu Yu, the Pingzhou Table Talks published in 1119 ( written from 1111 to 1117 ), was the first record of use of a compass for seafaring navigation.

In fact, the first known source to describe stories of its legendary use during the Zhou period was the Gu Jin Zhu book of Cui Bao ( c. 300 CE ), written soon after the Three Kingdoms era.

Her final book, a biography of Zhu De, was complete but unpublished at the time of her death.

It appeared again in a publication of Zhu Shijie's book Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns ( 四元玉鉴 ) of 1303 AD.

In the 6th century, the book was expanded to forty times its original size by the geographers Li Daoyuan, given the new title of Shui Jing Zhu ( The Waterways Classic Commented ).

Mungello ), Zhang's commentary was, in its content and meaning, not that different from the commentary written by Neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi, the Jesuits rejected the Neo-Confucianism but found Zhang's book more consonant with their view of Confucius ' teaching.

although earlier 10th century writing, the song of bean curd ( 豆腐詩 ), already mentioned the method of Huainan in Song dynasty by Zhu Xi It is also mentioned in a book which mentioned bean curd was called Lai Ki in Han dynasty, and the word appeared in an early Song dynasty writing.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Especially the works of Liu Zhu such as Tiānfāng Diǎnlǐ （ 天方典禮 ） sought to harmonize Islam with not only Confucianism but Daoism and is considered to be one of the crowning achievements of the Chinese Muslim culture.

Only during the Ming Dynasty was the School of Mind revived by Wang Shouren, whose influence is equal to that of Zhu Xi.

The philosophy of Yang Zhu ( 4th century BCE ), Yangism, is considered to be egoist.

Emperor Jianwen is either lost or killed and Zhu Di is crowned as Emperor Hongwu.

* Hou Zhu is succeeded by You Zhu, then by Fan Yang Wang.

* August 30 – October 4 – the Battle of Lake Poyang is fought between the Dahan rebel forces of Chen Youliang and the Red Turban Rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang on Lake Poyang, during the final decade of Yuan Dynasty control over China.

Zhu Di assumed the throne as the Yongle Emperor ( 1402 – 1424 ); his reign is universally viewed by scholars as a " second founding " of the Ming Dynasty since he reversed many of his father's policies.

Li Peng is married to Zhu Lin ( 朱琳 ), a deputy manager in " a large firm in the south of China ".

* The Later Liang Dynasty is founded by Zhu Wen, the first of northern China's Five Dynasties.

Wu noted that the popularity of these practices dramatically reduces health care costs, and that " Premier Zhu Rongji is very happy about that.

According to History of the Ming, her family name is Zhu, while the History of the Qing say it is Wei ( 魏 ).

The Azure Dragon-Qing Long-青龍 is considered to be the primary of the four celestial guardians, the other three being the Zhu Que-朱雀 ( Vermilion Bird ), Bai Hu-白虎 ( White Tiger ), Xuan Wu-玄武 ( Black Tortoise-like creature ).

Although Zhu Di would always claim that his mother was the Empress Ma ( Zhu Yuanzhang's primary wife ), his real birth mother is speculated by some to have been a secondary queen consort of either Korean or Mongolian origin.

Zhu Di is known for ordering perhaps the only case of " extermination of the ten agnates " ( 誅十族 ) in the history of China.

Even though the Hongwu Emperor may have meant for his descendants to be buried near his own Xiaoling Mausoleum ( this is how Hongwu's heir apparent, Zhu Biao was buried ), Yongle's relocation of the capital to Beijing necessitated the creation of a new imperial burial ground.

A recent study done by the observer of Chinese film and television, Ying Zhu, suggests that “ CCTV is full of serious-minded creators who regularly experience bouts of self-doubt, philosophical ambivalence, and in some cases, clinical depression .” During her extensive interviews with key CCTV players, Zhu notes that “ Certain common themes, about ideals distorted or altogether thwarted by commercial and political pressure, emerged .”

* After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty of China ; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Important party leaders, such as Zhu De and Nie Rongzhen, were first admitted to the party by Zhou.

* Mi Zhu, adviser first to Tao Qian, and later Liu Bei

These include current General Secretary, president Hu Jintao, the current vice president Xi Jinping, the current chairman of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo, former premier Zhu Rongji, and the former first vice premier Huang Ju.

The Yongle Emperor was born Zhu Di on 2 May 1360, the fourth son of the new leader of the central Red Turbans, Zhu Yuanzhang, who would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

She and Zhu were in the same schools twice, first the Hunan First Provincial Middle School ( 湖南第一中学 ) and then Tsinghua University.

The Hongwu Emperor (; 21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398 ) — known variably by his given name Zhu Yuanzhang () and by his temple name Taizu of Ming () — was the founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China.

These encounters and others with the Portuguese brought the first breech-loading culverins into China, mentioned even by the philosopher and scholar-official Wang Yangming in 1519 when he suppressed Zhu Chenhao's rebellion in Jiangxi.

Along with Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Lin Biao, Lin Boqu, and Luo Ronghuan, Peng opposed Mao's attempt to liberalize China's culture and politics in the first stages of the 1957 Hundred Flowers Campaign, but then supported Mao's efforts to arrest and persecute Chinese citizens who had criticized the CCP later that year.

Obverse of a fourth series 100 yuan Renminbi bank note, showing the profiles of ( from right ) Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi and Zhu De, the original members of the first generation leadership collective

Thus, the first generation, from 1949 to 1976, consisted of Mao Zedong as core, along with Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Chen Yun, Peng Dehuai, later Lin Biao and Gang of Four ( neither Lin or the Gang are today considered by official discourse to be part of this generation because of political antagonism resulting from the Cultural Revolution ).

In the first stage of this plan, one of the local commanders kidnapped one of Chanyu Zhi's brothers, Xian ( 咸 ), the Prince of Zuoliwu ( 左犁汙王 ), and his sons Deng ( 登 ) and Zhu ( 助 ), by trickery.

From his first publication of the Commentaries, Zhu continued to refine his interpretation for the last thirty years of his life.

Thus, for both Zhou and Zhu, taiji is the yin-yang principle of bipolarity, which is the most fundamental ordering principle, the cosmic " first principle.

Thus, for both Zhou and Zhu, taiji is the yin-yang principle of bipolarity, which is the most fundamental ordering principle, the cosmic " first principle.

Her story slightly changed from her going to the Moon on her first try to going to the heavens, and would later be rewarded to live in the Moon after an incident which involved her and Zhu Bajie.

Its first president was Cai Yuanpei, succeeded by Zhu Jiahua in 1940.

His original name, Cho Gonou is actually Zhū Wùnéng ( 豬悟能 ), the Buddhist name given to Zhu Bajie by Guan Yin when they first met in the original novel.

** Zhu Chuangju ( Jeffrey Chuan Chu ) a world-famous computer specialist who was involved in the manufacturing of the world's first electronic computer ;

Mao and Red Army founder Zhu De went on to develop a rural-based strategy that centered on guerrilla tactics, paving the way to the Long March of 1934 ( the first Long March in 1918 not accountable ).

It was originally the official residence of Zhu Shouqian-the great-nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang ( the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty ).