According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, the practice was started by Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, who had 66 people buried with him in 678 BC.

According to Hung's official website, it stars Aaron Kwok, Wu Jing, and Zhou Xun and was filmed for Tsui Siu-Ming ’ s Sundream Motion Pictures.

According to relatively late ( 19th century ) documents preserved within the Yang and Wu family's archives, the name of Zhang Sanfeng's master was Xu Xuanping ( 許宣平 ), said to be a Tang dynasty hermit poet and Taoist Tao Yin expert.

According to a book written during the reign of Tang Empress Wu, Fokan Ji ( 佛龕記, An Account of Buddhist Shrines ) by Li Junxiu ( 李君修 ), a Buddhist monk named Lè Zūn ( 樂尊, which may also be pronounced Yuezun ) had a vision of a thousand Buddhas bathed in golden light at the site in 366 AD, inspiring him to build a cave here.

According to the Jingde of the Lamp, after Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk from South India, left the court of the Liang emperor Wu in 527, he eventually found himself at the Shaolin Monastery, where he “ faced a wall for nine years, not speaking for the entire time ”.

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, King Wu of Zhou deposed the last Shang king in 1045 B. C.

According to records of the Eastern Jin, the earliest known dialect of Nanjing was an ancient Wu dialect.

According to Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook: " Eugene Wu, the Librarian of the Harvard Yenching Library, grew up in Chengtu and claims that as a schoolboy he used to eat Pock-Marked Ma's Bean Curd or mapo doufu, at a restaurant run by the original Pock-Marked Ma herself.

According to Xiangtan University Professor Wu half the Miao population were affected by the war.

According to records, Wu painted over 300 murals and more than 100 scrolls.

According to the latest Wu Shulian Chinese Universities Rankings, Sichuan International Studies University is ranked No. 4 among all Chinese international studies universities.

According to the locals, the history of ceramics in Yingge began 200 years ago when Wu An ( 吳鞍 ) immigrated from Guangzhou to Yingge to become the first potter in the area.

According to tradition, the Suns of Longmen are descendants of the third century warlord Sun Quan, who became emperor of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, the rulers of Wu are descended from Taibo, the elder uncle of King Wen of Zhou.

According to tradition, after the conquest of the Shang Dynasty around 1046 BC, King Wu of Zhou sought out the potter Gui Man ( 妫满 / 媯滿 ), a descendant of Shun, and gave him the feif of Chen as Duke Hu of Chen ( 陈胡公 / 陳胡公 ).

According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae ( Mori, S. A., C .- C. Tsou, C .- C. Wu, B. Cronholm & A. Anderberg.

According to the novel, during a confrontation with Wu troops along the shore of Ruxu River ( 濡须河 ), Yue Jin rode out to engage Ling Tong ( 凌统 ) in a duel.

According to the media, Lin appearing as a bridesmaid at her good friend, Annie Wu ’ s wedding in Okinawa, Japan June 9..

According to Tim Wu, cable companies plan to " carve off bandwidth " for their own television services and charge companies a toll for " priority " service.

According to the earliest extant biography, contained in Sengyou's Chu sanzang ji ji, completed c. 518 CE, the Wu ruler, Sun Quan was so impressed with Zhi Qian's abilities that he appointed him tutor to the crown prince.

According to a legend, Sun Quan ( 孙权 ), King of the Kingdom of Wu, had obtained Sharira relics, which are cremated remains of the Buddha.

According to researcher Douglas Century, professional boxers, including Zab Judah and Mike Tyson, have testified to the existence of the style and it is referred to in rap songs by artists including the Wu Tang Clan.

According to the historical text Wuyue Chunqiu, King Helü of Wu ordered Gan Jiang and Mo Ye to forge a pair of swords for him.

According to the Five Elements, or Wu Xing model, red, fire, should be succeeded by yellow, earth — or Yangdi by Huangdi.

According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

According to the Mitrokhin Archives, the Italian Communist Party lodged several complaints with the Soviet ambassador in Rome regarding Czechoslovak support of the Red Brigades, but the Soviets were either unwilling or unable to stop the StB.

According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andoria, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.

According to a letter sent by Gelli to César de la Vega, a P2 member and Argentine ambassador to the UNESCO, Gelli commissioned P2 member Federico Carlos Barttfeld to be transferred from the consulate of Hamburg to the Argentine embassy in Rome.

According to the French ambassador, the marriage " was celebrated with a magnificence that it would be hard to surpass, by the side of which even the brilliant festivities that have preceded it are not to be mentioned.

According to Micronesia's U. N. deputy ambassador, the country has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.

According to legend, Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.

According to various accounts-including the US ambassador to the UN-the Taliban used women and children from their own population as human shields against coalition forces in 2006, and 2007, and when the British attacked during August 2008.

According to the paper, after seven months Karzai and Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U. S. ambassador to Afghanistan, were ready to get rid of the company.

According to the memo, the offer was turned down by an " amazed and smiling " Russian ambassador who said Russia did not have any need for this.

According to Charles Duelfer, after the bombing the Iraqi ambassador to the UN told him, " If we had known that was all you would do, we would have ended the inspections long ago.

According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the Clinton Administration delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

According to De Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, he was Hell's ambassador to France.

According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the USSR's concern about Mozambique's apparent " sliding away " towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied " Vai à merda!

According to the ambassador Moties at the end of The Mote in God's Eye, " Watchmakers given time to adapt can destroy any ship.

According to the Habsburg ambassador, his public image was extremely poor.

According to a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable in which the U. S. ambassador there described Afewerki as " unhinged ," " cruel and defiant ," Aferwerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for " three or four decades " or longer because they " polarize society.

According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino " ambassador to the Sicilian Mafia " and a rising star in the crime family.

According to the English ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton the version of events as he presented it, also caused much anger at the VOC in Dutch government circles.

According to Bahru Zewde, Lorenzo came into conflict with the powerful Tsehafi Taezaz (" Minister of the Pen ") Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes, who had him appointed to the ceremonial President of the Chamber of Deputies ( 1943 – 1944 ), then ambassador to the Soviet Union ( November 1944 ) -- effectively exiled from the center of power, then a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference ( May 1946 ); after being in Sweden for only a month, he died in a hospital in Stockholm.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.

According to the Israeli ambassador to Egypt at the time, Moshe Sasson, Begin feared that the Israeli settlers would return to their homes surreptitiously and a disastrous clash between them and the Egyptians might occur.