It has introduced to readers many of the most beloved literary characters in Chinese literature, such as Wu Song, Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen.

They include Sun Li, Yang Zhi, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and Wu Song.

The next few chapters tell the story of Shi Jin's friend Lu Zhishen, followed by the story of Lu's sworn brother Lin Chong.

19th century mural depicting Lu Zhishen uprooting a tree, a scene from the novel.

* Lu Zhishen ( 魯智深 ), fictional character in the novel Water Margin

Lu Zhishen, nicknamed " Flowery Monk ", or Sagacious Lu ( the name his abbot gave him ), is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Painted mural depiction of Lu Zhishen at the Summer Palace, 19th century

After Lu Da is accepted and becomes a monk, the abbot gives him the Buddhist name Zhishen, which means " sagacious ".

Lu Zhishen does not follow the Buddhist code of abstinence from meat and wine.

Lu Zhishen causes trouble again in the monastery after drinking and the abbot decides to send him away as he can no longer tolerate Lu's actions and behavior.

Lu Zhishen is sent to the Great Minister's Temple in Dongjing ( present-day Kaifeng ).

Lu Zhishen wields a monk's spade and a dagger as his weapons.

The blacksmith remarks that even Guan Yu's guan dao weighs less at 81 jin, so Lu Zhishen wanted his spade to be 81 jin as well.

The blacksmith told him that the spade would not be handy if it is too heavy, so Lu Zhishen eventually agreed to have the spade at 62 jin instead.

Lu Zhishen in a 1887 woodblock print by Yoshitoshi

On his journey, Lu Zhishen dissuades the " Little Tyrant " Zhou Tong from marrying Squire Liu's daughter.

Upon reaching his destination, Lu Zhishen is placed in charge of maintaining the garden of the temple.

Lu Zhishen performs a superhuman feat by uprooting a willow tree with his brute strength and becomes famous.

When Lin Chong is framed and exiled to Cangzhou, Lu Zhishen secretly follows him and protects him from the guards who have been bribed to kill him along the way.

Later, Lu Zhishen passes by Cross Slope and became fast friends with Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing.

Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and Cao Zheng kill Deng Long and seize control of the stronghold and become outlaws.

Lu Zhishen joins Liangshan after the battle of Qingzhou ( in present-day Shandong ).

Lu Zhishen goes to Huazhou to invite Shi Jin to join Liangshan but is arrested together with him and they are held captive in Prefect He's residence.

Lu Zhishen becomes one of the leaders of the Liangshan infantry after the Grand Assembly in chapter 71.

Lu disguises himself as Leung Foon and follows Wong out of the consulate safely, while Leung pretends to be Lu and lures Nap-lan away.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban.

The progenitors of Chinese woodworking are considered to be Lu Ban ( 魯班 ) and his wife Lady Yun, from the Spring and Autumn Period.

He ordered a canal be constructed for trading purposes, as well as a means to ship ample supplies north in case his forces should engage the northern states of Song and Lu.

During the reign of King Mu of Zhou the Minister of Crime, Marquis Lu, reformed the law in 950 BC to make it easier for people to be sentenced to castration instead of death.

" In terms of literary practice, Lu Xun ( 1881 – 1936 ) is usually said to be the first major stylist in the new vernacular prose that Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu were promoting.

Hu Shih and Lu Xun would be pioneers in modern literature.

" In a 1933 essay, noted writer Lu Xun admits that this quote may be apocryphal, but condemns it as " laughing away the cruelty of the human butcher ".

This may be because Sima Qian included de facto rulers such as Xiang Yu and Empress Dowager Lu and excluded rulers with no real power, such as Emperor Yi of Chu and Emperor Hui of Han.

In The Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan plays the character Lu Yun, who is supposed to be one of the eight immortals, as revealed by the director in the movie's special feature, The Monkey King and The Eight Immortals.

* Cooperating with New York University, NYU Shanghai was found in January 2011 in Lu Jia Zui in Shanghai. Lizhong Yu, the president of ECNU, will be the president of this young college.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Charlie Munger once said " it is a foregone decision " that Li Lu would be going to be a member of Berkshire's top investors team after Warren Buffett retires.

In the reign of Emperor Jing of Han ( r. 157-141 BC ), a third version ( the " old text version ") was discovered hidden in a wall of the home then believed to be Confucius ' when the home was in the process of being destroyed by King Gong of Lu ( r. 153-128 BC ) in order to expand the king's palace.

But on December 11, 2003, Chen officially nominated Lu to run for a second term as he could not find a suitable partner. And he said that he respects Lu's academic background and probably she is the only one who is suitable to be Chen's running mate.

Scandium ( Sc ) and yttrium ( Y ) are always included, but the other two spaces are usually occupied by lanthanum ( La ) and actinium ( Ac ), or by lutetium ( Lu ) and lawrencium ( Lr ); less frequently, it is considered the group should be expanded to 32 elements ( with all the lanthanides and actinides included ) or contracted to contain only scandium and yttrium.

As this version avoid the taboo of mentioning the name of Liu Bang but does not avoid mentioning the name of Liu Hui, Emperor Huidi, the time of its being copied should be during the reign of Emperor Huidi or Empress Lu.

Lu Xun was soon given a minor post as a commandant and civil official, where he distinguished himself to be proficient in administrating both civilian and military affairs.

Lu Xun denied them, stating that he discerned that Liu Bei had planned for that, and open battle would be too risky.

Lu Xun explained that if they fled immediately, the army would be in chaos and the enemy would be able to take advantage, pursue and destroy them.

* Lu Fang ( 盧芳 ), who also claimed the name Liu Wenbo ( 劉文伯 ) and claimed to be a descendant of Emperor Wu and the proper Han emperor.

After this short stint, Allen was asked to return to the show to play Luke and Laura Spencer's daughter Lesley Lu ( Lulu ) Spencer, a change that required that the character's age be retroactively lowered.

To this, Lu Su dissuaded Liu Bei from joining Wu Ju, saying Wu was only an ordinary fellow who would not be independent for long ; and persuaded Liu Bei to form an alliance with his lord Sun Quan against Cao Cao.

After his subordinates Hua Xiong, Hu Zhen, and Lu Bu were defeated by Sun at Yangren, Dong sent the eloquent Li Jue to propose a marriage between Sun's son and Dong's daughter, and promised Sun that the country could be split between them.