However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

However, Cao Cao received word that Lü Bu had seized Yan Province in his absence, and accordingly he retreated, putting a halt to hostilities with Tao Qian for the time being.

However, some Han Chinese bannermen like Zhao Erfeng, Zhao Erxun and Cao Xueqin did not use Manchu names.

However, this therefore does not render the historical existence of the " Royal Uncle Cao " impossible as in pre-modern China, the address " uncle " also meant " brother-in-law ".

However, Cao Cao knew that no one could stop Guan Yu and he gave orders for the officials along the way to give passage to Guan.

However, his status as heir was not immediately made legal, and for years there were lingering doubts on whom Cao Cao intended to make heir.

However, the situation shifted after Cao Cao received advice from his strategist Jia Xu, who concluded that changing the general rules of succession ( primogeniture ) would be disruptive — using Yuan Shao and Liu Biao as counterexamples.

However, before Yu's departure, he was instructed to travel to Ye to pay his respects at Cao Cao's tomb.

However, he was afraid to move when Cao Cao's bodyguard, Xu Chu, glared at him.

However, by the ninth day, Cao Hong was unable to bear the insults and taunts from Ma Chao and his men, and led a contingent out of the pass to attack Ma Chao without seeking permission first.

However, Cao Cao anticipated the attack and prepared a distraction tactic.

However, Cao Zhi was so drunk that he could not come forth to take the order.

However, Cao Rui probably still considered him a threat to the throne and declined all the offers.

However, Cao Pi's Chief Secretary ( 相国 ) Hua Xin then convinced him to put Cao Zhi's literary talent to a test.

However, Cao Pi was not satisfied.

However, Liu Bei quickly held on to Cao Cao's arm and Guan Yu dropped onto his knees.

However, some characters such as the three founders may continue to participate in battles that occurred after their deaths ( e. g.: Cao Cao appearing in Battle of Wuzhang Plains ).

However, one day per year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, magpies make a bridge so that Niu Lang and Zhi Nü can be together again for a brief encounter.

However, Liu Bang's family, including Lü Zhi and her children, remained in Pei County, which was a territory of Xiang Yu's kingdom of Western Chu.

However Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), the chancellor in Liu Ruyi's principality, whom Lü Zhi respected because of his stern opposition to Emperor Gaozu's proposal to make Liu Ruyi crown prince, temporarily protected Liu Ruyi from harm by responding to Lü Zhi's order that " The Prince of Zhao is ill and unfit for travelling over long distances.

However, Roy Andrew Miller says * Fimeko is a lexicographic error deriving from the Wei Zhi transcriptions.

However, E Zhesai ( 蛾遮塞 ) of Qiang, and Zhi Wudai ( 治无戴 ) of Hu still insisted on fighting, so the war was fragmented into battles that dragged on to 248, wherein Jiang Wei again led Shu forces to the aid of the rebels.

However these did not last and by the closing years of his reign, governmental affairs once again fell into the hands of eunuchs, notably Wang Zhi.

However, when Wei Jian's brothers Wei Lan ( 韋蘭 ) and Wei Zhi ( 韋芝 ) submitted a defense of their brother Wei Jian later in 746 — and the defense cited words from Li Heng — Emperor Xuanzong was incensed.

However, Gao Qiu does not forgive Yang Zhi and has Yang stripped off his post.

However, Suo Chao objects to Liang Shijie's decision and he challenges Yang Zhi to a contest.

However, Yang Zhi proves to be a powerful fighter as well and neither of them is able to defeat his opponent after rounds of fighting.

However, Yang Zhi proves to be a powerful fighter as well and neither of them is able to defeat his opponent after rounds of fighting.

However, Yang Zhi proves to be a powerful opponent and neither of them is able to defeat his opponent after several rounds of fighting.

However, Yang Zhi senses Wang Lun's insincerity and declines the offer.

However, after he was ultimately forced to commit suicide, she was greatly saddened, and she eventually ordered, against Emperor Jing's wishes, that the official who forced Prince Rong to commit suicide, Zhi Du ( 郅都 ), be executed on a minor offense.

However, Liang Ji wanted a young emperor whom he could control, so he convinced Empress Dowager Liang to make the seven-year-old Liu Zuan emperor ( as Emperor Zhi ).

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

However, the nonspecific staining by the Af in tumor sections was considered bright enough to be confused with the staining of small amounts of WTV antigen.

However, all admitted that the `` hindsight '' was not altogether lost.

However, she was able to relax and yield to the moment.

However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.

However, there was no real question of the justice of creating a strong Poland, both industrially and agriculturally, and one unplagued by large minorities of Germans or Russians.

However, the sovereign was not Hobbes' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin.

However, a similar privilege was not specifically provided in section 168 for a person acquiring emergency facilities.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

( However, there is little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

However Copperhead rhetoric argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification.

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.