Allied with Liu Bei and employing the combined strategies of Zhou Yu and Huang Gai, they defeated Cao Cao decisively at the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Zhou Yu set up a trap where he pretended to be punishing his subordinate Huang Gai, and Huang pretended to surrender to Cao Cao in fear.

Huang Gai was born in Quanling County, Lingling Precinct ( present-day Yongzhou, Hunan ), and first allied himself with Sun Jian during the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the 180s.

At the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208, Huang Gai suggested to Zhou Yu that a fire attack would be the best strategy to use in order to defeat Cao Cao's gigantic fleet and overwhelming numbers.

Zhou Yu approved of this method, and Huang Gai sent word to Cao Cao claiming that he wished to defect.

Huang Gai had earlier loaded his boats with wax and straw, and when his ships were within proximity of Cao Cao's fleet, he set them ablaze and steered them on a collision course with Cao Cao's lines.

During the battle, Huang Gai was hit by an arrow and fell from his boat, but was rescued by Han Dang.

Huang Gai received various titles throughout the years, including: Auxiliary Corps Commander, Acting Colonel of the Firm Attack, Chief Commandant of Danyang, General of the Gentlemen of the Household, and Governor of Wuling.

Huang Gai appears as a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi video game series.

The fire attack masterminded by Zhou Yu and Huang Gai succeeded against Cao Cao's chain-linked vessels and most of Cao's navy was destroyed in the battle.

* Huang Gai, General of Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period

Huang Gai proposed a plan in which he pretended to surrender to Cao Cao and infiltrated the enemy camp.

A fire ship was used in the Battle of Red Cliffs ( 208 ) on the Yangtze River when Huang Gai assaulted the enemy naval force with a fire ship filled with bundles of kindling, dry reeds, and fatty oil.

Playable starting officers include Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu for the Shu Kingdom ; Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Cao for the Wei Kingdom ; and Sun Shang Xiang, Huang Gai, and Sun Jian for the Wu Kingdom.

Sun Jian then arrived at the pass with his generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao.

Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang eventually regrouped with Sun Jian, who mourned the death of Zu Mao and reported his defeat to Yuan Shao.

At the Battle of Red Cliffs, he rescued Huang Gai, a fellow pioneering general, who had been shot by an enemy arrow, and was floating in the river.

The practice was also well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang ( 227 BC ).

The emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu, and Huang established a new temporary regime which was eventually destroyed by Tang forces.

Huang Shaoxiong, also a Kuomintang member of the New Guangxi Clique, supported Bai's campaign, and Huang was not a Muslim, the anti religious campaign was agreed upon by all Guangxi Kuomintang members.

In 1636, Injo who was king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty had to kneel three times on the ground and touch his head nine times on the ground ( 三拜九叩頭禮 ), to show his allegiance to Huang Taiji who was the first Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

While Tom Matano, Mark Jordan, Wu Huang Chin, Norman Garrett and Koichi Hayashi worked on the final design, the project was moved to Japan for engineering and production details.

* 1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi ' an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.

Stanley Henning proposes that the Epitaphs identification of the internal martial arts with the Taoism indigenous to China and of the external martial arts with the foreign Buddhism of Shaolin — and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to which Huang Zongxi was opposed — was an act of political defiance rather than one of technical classification.

In 1736, the smoking of pure opium was described by Huang Shujing, involving a pipe made from bamboo rimmed with silver, stuffed with palm slices and hair, fed by a clay bowl in which a globule of molten opium was held over the flame of an oil lamp.

The First Emperor Qin Shi Huang ( circa 221 BC, who unified the 7 pre-Imperial Kingdoms ) was buried under a large mound outside modern day Xi ' an.

In 2004, Allred, while promoting his comic book, The Golden Plates, announced that a screenplay by George Huang was near completion.

Huang is actually friends with Rodriguez, who advised him to pursue filmmaking as a career when Rodriguez landed a deal with Columbia Pictures where Huang was an employee.

Since Jiang Zemin became the national party chief in June 1989, all but one former Shanghai party chief was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body in China, including Jiang Zemin ( General secretary and President ), Zhu Rongji ( Premier ), Wu Bangguo ( Chairman of the National People's Congress ), Huang Ju ( Vice Premier ), and Xi Jinping ( Vice President ).

The Temple event was organized by DNC fund-raisers John Huang and Maria Hsia.

Its ruler, Qin Shi Huang, implemented the Legalist system of rule, which was used to rule the former Qin state.

A surname in Han society was viewed as the most prominent legitimizing marker of a patrilineal ancestral link to the Yellow Emperor ( Huang Di ) and the Five Emperors of Han mythology.

For the next several years, Sun Quan was largely interested in first defending his realm against potential enemies, but he gradually sought to harass and weaken Liu Biao's key subordinate, Huang Zu ( who controlled the northeastern region of Liu Biao's domain ) -- particularly because Huang Zu had killed his father in battle.

In 208, he was finally able to defeat and kill Huang Zu in battle.

* Daišan of Manchuria ( 1583 – 1648 ), Manchurian prince ( brother of Huang Taiji ) and military commander

In early 207, his forces finally won complete victory over Huang Zu, a military leader under Liu Biao, who dominated the middle Yangtze.

On 10 October 1911 a military uprising at Wuchang took place led again by Huang Xing.

A thousand years later the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huang, was so determined to impress the gods with his military might that he was buried with an army of terracotta soldiers.

* Shin No Shikoutei ( 1963 )-The film portrays Qin Shi Huang as a battle-hardened emperor with his roots in the military.

* The Myth ( 2005 )-The film starred Jackie Chan as Meng Yi, a military general serving under Qin Shi Huang.

In August 1927 Peng was approached by an old military comrade, Huang Gonglue: Peng was sympathetic, but could not decide to join the Party.

Some of Peng's subordinates in the rebellion survived and became important military figures themselves, including generals Huang Kecheng and Peng Shaohui.

After Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BCE, the populations of the six defeated states did not fully accept Qin Dynasty authority so a continuing military occupation was required.

Jiang Wei attempted to weaken Wei, however, there was dissension within the highest-ranked officials, because both Zhuge Zhan and Huang Hao feared Jiang Wei would use the military campaigns as a mean to increase his personal influence.

Zhou then issued orders that the plane could not take off without the written permission of himself and several other senior military officials, including Wu Faxian, general chief-of-staff Huang Yongsheng, and the commander of the navy and general chief-of-staff, Li Zuopeng.

Bai and classmates Huang Shaohong and Li Zongren would become three leading figures of the Guangxi's military.

Xu Huang ( died 227 ) was a military officer serving under the warlord Dong Zhuo during the late Han Dynasty era of Chinese history.

He convinced local Pao Huang Hui leaders that he was a military expert who could greatly benefit their cause, in part, by falsely claiming Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee as a relative.

The Pao Huang Hui welcomed him into their ranks with promises of becoming a General in their upcoming military campaign to restore the emperor to power.

He became a Lieutenant General in the Pao Huang Hui ’ s makeshift military forces, but had a relatively unimportant assignment that involved training rural volunteers away from any active military operations.

After the Pao Huang Hui ’ s main military forces were defeated by the imperial army, his military adventures in China came to a virtual end.

He became the architect of a plan to train a Pao Huang Hui military cadre in America whose goal was to return to China and help restore the emperor to power.

Huang Zhong ( died 220 ) was a military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history.

After the fall of Eastern Wu, Emperor Wu ordered that provincial governors no longer be in charge of military matters and become purely civilian governors, and that regional militias be disbanded, despite opposition by the general Tao Huang ( 陶璜 ) and the key official Shan Tao.

In one particular military exploit, known as ' the storming of the thirteen passes ', Liu's Black Flags fought their way through the mountains and attacked Huang Chongying's headquarters at Hayang, a town on the Clear River near the border with Yunnan, forcing the Yellow Flag leader to take refuge with his montagnard allies.

In the KMT, he led the Political Science Clique ( 政學系 ), which included military men such as Huang Fu ( 黄郛 ) and Xiong Shihui ( 熊式輝 ), intellectuals, like Yang Yongtai ( 楊永泰 ) and Wang Chonghui ( 王寵惠 ), and bankers and industrialists, including Wu Dingchang ( 吳鼎昌 ) and Zhang Jiaoao ( 張嘉璈 ).