The two warriors are the historical general Guan Yu from the late Han Dynasty and the bodhisattva Skanda, who appears in the Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang.

Some believed it comes from the late Han era and was said to have been used by the Han general Guan Yu.

Like virtually all governing institutions in mainland China, the politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system, in which the Communist Party Chief, officially termed the Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Secretary ( currently Yu Zhengsheng ), outranks the Mayor ( currently Han Zheng ).

During the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu further formalized and defined Confucian beliefs as an apologetic response to Buddhism.

* 824: Han Yu died.

* Han Yu

* Han Yu, philosopher, essayist, and poet in Tang Dynasty China ( d. 824 )

* Han Yu, philosopher, essayist, and poet in Tang Dynasty China ( b. 768 )

* Liu Bang, King of Han, defeats Xiang Yu of Western Chu in the Battle of Gaixia, ending the Chu-Han contention.

* Deng Yu, general of Han Dynasty ( b. 2 )

This was an extremely important move for Cao Cao following the suggestion from his primary advisor, Xun Yu, commenting that by supporting the authentic emperor, Cao Cao would have the formal legal authority to control the other warlords and force them to comply in order to restore the Han Dynasty.

Two former rebel leaders, Xiang Yu ( d. 202 BCE ) of Chu and Liu Bang ( d. 195 BCE ) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.

Liu Bang then betrayed and defeated Xiang Yu, declaring himself Emperor Gaozu of the new Han Dynasty.

* Liu Yu, general of the Han Dynasty

* Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are defeated by Han forces under Liu Yu.

In 177 A. D., 30, 000 Han cavalry attacked the confederacy, commanded by Xia Yu ( 夏育 ), Tian Yan ( 田晏 ) and Zang Min ( 臧旻 ), each of whom was the commander of units sent respectively against the Wuhuan, the Qiang, and the Southern Xiongnu before the campaign.

The Huns, led by Shan Yu, invade Han China, forcing the Chinese emperor to command a general mobilization.

The Huns, led by the ruthless Shan Yu, invade Han China, forcing the Chinese emperor to command a general mobilization.

Following the death of the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xin, Liu Yu attacked the state of Later Qin, which controlled the valuable lands of Guanzhong, lands which had once housed the capital of the Qin, Han and Jin dynasties before the barbarian uprisings.

* The Snow Queen: A Korean drama that centers around the Anderson classic starring Hyun Bin and Sung Yu Ri as Han Tae Woong and Kim Bo-Ra, a mismatched yet heartwarming couple.

In 177 A. D., 30, 000 Han cavalry attacked the confederacy, commanded by Xia Yu ( 夏育 ), Tian Yan ( 田晏 ) and Zang Min ( 臧旻 ), each of whom was the commander of units sent respectively against the Wuhuan, the Qiang, and the Southern Xiongnu before the campaign.

It was exemplified in the work of Han Yu 韓愈 ( 768 – 824 ), a master essayist and strong advocate of a return to Confucian orthodoxy ; Han Yu was later listed as one of the " Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song.

This is due to the rich historical record of astronomical phenomena which, in China, stretches back into the Han dynasty, in the second century BC.

Classical Chinese astronomy is recorded in the Han period and appears in the form of three schools, which are attributed to astronomers of the Zhanguo period.

The conventional view of Chinese history is that of alternating periods of political unity and disunity, with China occasionally being dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were in turn assimilated into the Han Chinese population.

* Early Medieval China is a journal devoted to academic scholarship relating to the period roughly between the end of the Han and beginning of the Tang eras.

Confucian ethics is characterized by the promotion of virtues, encompassed by the Five Constants, or the Wuchang ( 五常 ), extrapolated by Confucian scholars during the Han Dynasty.

Legalism is a pragmatic political philosophy synthesized by Shang Yang and Han Fei.

Mongolian hotpot is very famous in China and popular with the Han ethnic group too.

The Han imperial library is said to contain 82 volumes of descriptions of all those systems ( Han Shu 30, 1765-6 ), now mostly lost.

Also sponsored by the PRC is the view that Chinese history should include all of China's ethnic groups past and present ( Zhonghua Minzu ), not just the history of the Han Chinese.

*** The Classic of Music is sometimes referred to as the sixth classic ; it was lost by the time of the Han Dynasty.

The " Yan Zun Version ," which is only extant for the Te Ching, derives from a commentary attributed to Han Dynasty scholar Yan Zun ( 巖尊, fl.

The " Heshang Gong Version " is named after the legendary Heshang Gong ( " Riverside Sage ") who supposedly lived during the reign ( 202-157 BC ) of Emperor Wen of Han.

Han is suspected to be involved in drug trafficking and prostitution.

As Williams gets weaker, Han reveals that one of his hands is made of iron.

" After a spectacular fight in a room full of mirrors, Han is defeated by Lee and impaled on his own spear.

Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ), a Prefect of the Grand Scribes ( 太史令 ) of the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ), is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his universal history, the Records of the Grand Historian ( 史記 ).

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Han () meant " great " in archaic Korean, while geul () is the native Korean word for " script ".

In Han Chinese culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence.

* 313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state ( Han Zhao ).

Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.