* Octane Serpent Spear of Zhang Fei ( Yide ) from the Three Kingdoms period in China

* Zhang Fei, general of Shu Han ( d. 221 )

Liu Bei, together with his followers Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, fled to Cao Cao, who accepted him.

* Zhang Fei, general of Shu ( assassinated by two Shu generals )

Historical Chinese names include Zhang Hai () used in records from the Han Dynasty, and Fei Hai () used during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms, silk painting by Sekkan Sakurai ( 1715 – 1790 ), depicting Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei, along with his sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, swear allegiance to the Han Dynasty in the famous Oath of the Peach Garden and pledge to do their best for the country.

While Liu Bei is planning to avenge Guan Yu, his other sworn brother Zhang Fei is assassinated in his sleep by his subordinates, who have defected to Sun Quan.

Destiny of an Emperor is based on Hiroshi Motomiya's manga, Tenchi wo Kurau, which follows the story of popular Chinese historical figure Liu Bei and his sworn brothers, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.

Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu form a small militia to defend their village from Yellow Turban rebels, followers of the sorcerer Zhang Jiao.

Together with Zhang Fei, Guan Yu joined Liu Bei and participated actively in fighting the Yellow Turban rebels in northern China.

When Liu Bei was appointed as the governor of Pingyuan County, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were made " Senior Major " ( 别部司马 ) under Liu.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei followed Liu Bei most of the time wherever he went and protected him from danger regardless of how perilous the situation was.

In Chapter 1, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei met in Zhuo County and took an oath of fraternity in the fabled Peach Garden, thus becoming sworn brothers.

Guan Yu and his party then made their long journey back and were finally reunited with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei at Gucheng.

However, with the interference of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang decided to pardon Guan Yu on account of his past contributions.

He holds off Cao Cao's army together with Zhang Fei while Zhao Zilong searches for the infant Liu Shan.

In Peng's letter, Peng compared himself to the courageous but tactless Han dynasty general Zhang Fei.

During the Hanzhong Campaign, Ma Chao followed Zhang Fei to attack Cao Hong in Wudu.

Ma Chao and Zhang Fei attempted to trick Cao Hong into believing that they were planning to attack his rear route, but Cao Xiu saw through their ruse and advised Cao Hong to launch a counterattack.

Ma Chao and Zhang Fei were defeated and forced to retreat.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao duel at Jiameng Pass

He engaged Zhang Fei in two long duels, with neither of them emerging the victor.

As Liu Bei mobilized his troops in preparation for the attack on Wu, another of his generals, Zhang Fei, was assassinated by his subordinates Fan Qiang and Zhang Da.

In June – July 1935, the troops under Mao united with the Fourth Red Army, led by Zhang Guotao, which had retreated west from Henan.

In 219, Xiahou Yuan was killed in the Battle of Mount Dingjun and Zhang He retreated to Yangpingguan ( northwest of Hanzhong ).

As Zhang Fei expected, the enemy feared an ambush after seeing the dust in the forest behind him and retreated.

Not expecting to win the battle, Pan Zhang then retreated.

Realizing he did not have the endurance to gain the edge on the younger Xu Zhi, Liao Hua took advantage of a feint and allowed Zhang Yi to take his place in the duel ; but Zhang Yi was quickly bested and he retreated along with Liao Hua.

Zhang Xiu then pursued Cao Cao as the latter retreated north.

Zhang retreated to Feiqiu ( present-day Xingping, Shaanxi ) and remained there.

In 197, after Cao Cao lost to Zhang Xiu at the Battle of Wancheng and retreated to Wuyin ( northwest of present day Qinyang, Henan ), Yu led several hundred men to hold off the pursuers, alternatively engaging the enemy and retreating to avoid a rout.

Receiving intelligence Cao had come in person, Sun retreated, and Yue, alongside Zhang Liao and Li Dian were left for the defense of Hefei fortress with 7, 000 soldiers.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao retreated back to Han Zhong after being defeated by Cao Hong, and Wu Lan ( 吳蘭 ) fled to the Di tribute, and was killed by its ruler.

Ma Chao retreated to Hanzhong and pledged allegiance to Zhang Lu, who considered marrying his daughter to him.

Instead, Zhang Lu retreated to his fortress at Bazhong ( 巴中 ).

Only Zhang Ziyi spoke with a native Mandarin accent that Ang Lee wanted.

After releasing Chiang and returning to Nanjing with him, Zhang was placed under house arrest and the generals who had assisted him were executed.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

In 1936 Manchurian warlord and Chiang's former ally Zhang Xueliang decided to conspire with the CPC and kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in Xi ' an to force an end to the conflict between KMT and CPC.

The eunuchs attempted to slander Zhang, who responded with a rhapsody called " Contemplating the Cosmos ".

Rafe de Crespigny, Tong Xiao, and David R. Knechtges claim that Zhang wrote this as an innuendo hinting at his inability to keep in contact with the emperor, hindered by unworthy rivals and petty men.

Also in the 2nd century BC, the Han dispatched the explorer Zhang Qian to explore the lands to the west and to form an alliance with the Yuezhi people in order to combat the nomadic tribe of the Xiongnu.

Zhang Qian's travels are associated with the major route of transcontinental trade, the Silk Road.

* Chinese scientist Zhang Heng corrects the calendar to bring it into line with the four seasons.

It was an international collaboration, with director Zhang Yimou as choreographer and Zubin Mehta as conductor.

In the third month of 184, Zhang Jiao, leader of the Way of Supreme Peace, a Taoist movement, along with his two brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, led the movement's followers in a rebellion against the government that was called the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Liu Bian took the Han throne as Emperor Shao, and He Jin plotted with warlord Yuan Shao to assassinate the Ten Attendants, a clique of ten eunuchs led by Zhang Rang who controlled much of the imperial court.

Lü Bu fled to Zhang Yang, a northern warlord, and remained with him for a time before briefly joining Yuan Shao, but it was clear that Lü Bu was far too independent to serve another.

In 194, Cao Cao went to war with Tao Qian of Xu Province, because Tao's subordinate Zhang Kai had murdered Cao Cao's father Cao Song.

Even before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat Zhang Qian's travels from 139 to 125 BCE had established Chinese contacts with many surrounding civilizations.

Many affairs of state were entrusted to the eunuchs Zhao Zhong ( d. 189 CE ) and Zhang Rang ( d. 189 CE ) while Emperor Ling spent much of his time roleplaying with concubines and participating in military parades.

Zhang Rang had previously fled with Emperor Shao ( r. 189 CE ) and his brother Liu Xie — the future Emperor Xian of Han ( r. 189 – 220 CE ).

Combining Hobson's activation synthesis hypothesis with Solms ' findings, the continual-activation theory of dreaming presented by Jie Zhang proposes that dreaming is a result of brain activation and synthesis ; at the same time, dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.

The attacks on Zhang found favour with many attendees at the Plenum, and may have been construed by Mao as an indirect attack on the Cultural Revolution itself.

She allied herself with Wang Hongwen and propaganda specialists Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, forming a political clique later pejoratively dubbed as the " Gang of Four ".

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.

The prominent Maoists, Zhang Chunqiao and Jiang Qing were sentenced to death with two-year-reprieve while some others were sentenced to life imprisonment or imprisonment over 15 years.