However, Liu Bei became a powerful warlord as he was joined by Lei Xu ( 雷绪 ) and his troops numbering to tens of thousands, and soon conquered southern Jing Province without much resistance.

However, reinforcements led by Xu Huang managed to force Guan Yu's troops to retreat.

However, the letter was intercepted by an official loyal to Sun Ce, who attacked and then had Xu Gong executed.

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

However, when Jiang stepped down on 19 September 2004, Xu Caihou, and not Zeng, became Vice-chairman.

However, Xu Shu replied, " You must visit this man in person.

However, Xu died in the same year due to illness, leaving behind a will demanding a burial in plain clothes.

However, Xu was a righteous man and refused to kill his former superior.

However, an advisor named Jia Xu suggested they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the Liang faction was actually unscathed.

However, the men under Xu were elite archers and they caused Huang a casualty of a thousand.

However, it is not stated whether general He kept the loot himself or he returned it to Xu Sheng.

However, Xu Sheng's self-ego did not always lead to positive actions, though.

However, the truth is that Jiang always spoke in favour of Xu and never abused his power to harm the latter.

However, Cao Ren, learning of Xu Huang's march, led his troops out of Fancheng to join him in an assault against Guan Yu.

However, Xu promised Liu Bei not to help Cao Cao.

However the fine distinctions made by the Qieyun were found overly restrictive by poets, and Xu Jingzong and others suggested more relaxed rhyming rules.

However, this theory does in fact fit nicely with the story told of Xu You, where the sage, upon hearing Emperor Yao's invitation to become the overseeing governor of 9 provinces, promptly washed his ears in the Ying River ( the largest tributary of the Huai River with its origin in Henan ) to show that the emperor's promise of fame and fortune had sullied his ears.

However, the sighting was brief, and Xu was in desperate straits during the descent, and while he clearly remembered seeing the body, he was unclear about where it was.

However, the road was poorly built and as result, Zhong Hui had Xu Yi beheaded.

However Gongsun Zan eventually lost this and committed suicide killing also his wife and son Gongsun Xu.

However, Xu had discovered the remainder of the specimen from which the tail had been taken and published a description of it later that year, giving it the name Microraptor zhaoianus.

However, Li Jue's chief advisor Jia Xu suggested that they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the regime was not stabilized after the coup.

However, on the journey eastwards, there were internal disputes, and Yang Feng took this opportunity to rescue the Emperor, with the assistance of Dong Cheng and Xu Huang.

However this first verse does not occur in the earliest known version from the Guodian Chu Slips and there is speculation that it may have been added by later commentators.

However, the first invasion was an utter disaster when 200, 000 Qin troops, led by the inexperienced general, Li Xin, were defeated by 500, 000 Chu troops in the unfamiliar territory of Huaiyang, modern-day northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

However, Wang Jian decided to weaken Chu's resolve and tricked the Chu army by appearing to be idle in his fortifications whilst secretly training his troops to fight in Chu territory.

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, Chinese histories since ancient works such as Shiji were also fairly liberal in terming local tribal chiefs as " king " of a particular territory ranging from vast to tiny, using convenient terms of the form "( locality )" + "( king )" such as Changshawang, " King of Changsha " which was briefly recognized as a kingdom but was usually a smaller part of Chu state or just a county of the Sui Dynasty state, or phrases such as Yiwang, " Yi ( Eastern ) Foreign (' barbarian ') king ( s )," while in other cases or by other authors other terms such as, " native chief " might be used for the same office.

However, Zhang Liang disapproved of the plan as he felt that the states were more likely to support Western Chu instead as Chu was superior to Han in terms of military might.

However on March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu reiterated in a Senate hearing that the Yucca Mountain site was no longer considered an option for storing reactor waste.

However, the Chen state was occupied by Chu after the 10th century BC.

However, Wu was later defeated by the State of Yue, today's Zhejiang and Fujian, which in turn was overthrown by the State of Chu and incorporated into Chu during the Warring States Period.

However, by the end of the 5th century BC, the Chu government had become very corrupt and inefficient with much of the state's treasury used primarily to pay for a large official retinue.

However, Wu Qi was assassinated by the Chu officials at the funeral of King Dao in 381 BC.

However, the original name Chua Chu Kang is retained in the cemetery area.

However, Chu suddenly died in 1985.

However, former Taipei County Magistrate Chou Hsi-wei and Vice President of the Executive Yuan Eric Chu supported the addition of the new station.

However, Phua Chu Kang went on to enjoy almost the same level of popularity and acclaim.

However, by March 1987, a flurry of recent research on ceramic superconductors had succeeded in creating ever-higher superconducting temperatures, including the discovery by the University of Houston's Paul Chu of a superconductor that operated at minus 139 degrees Celsius ( minus 283 degrees Fahrenheit ), above the temperature of boiling liquid nitrogen.

However, it looks more different from the Chinese script than Chu Nom and Sawndip ( Zhuang logograms ).

However, it was only during the reign of Emperor Cheng when Liu Xiang arranged and compiled the poems of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, as well as those of Han poets including Wang Bao ( 王褒 ), Jia Yi ( 賈誼 ), Yan Ji ( 嚴忌 ) and Liu Xiang himself, into the Chu Ci anthology as it is known today.

However, both the city of Ying and the entire state of Chu itself experienced doom due to the expansion of the state of Qin, which ended up consolidating China at the expense of the other former independent states: including Qu Yuan's home state — hence the " Lament ".

However, Chu Hsi-ning's, unlike that of many Chinese writers of the 1930s, was not leftist.