In his career as a scholar-official for the central government, Shen Kuo was also an ambassador to the Western Xia Dynasty and Liao Dynasty, a military commander, a director of hydraulic works, and the leading chancellor of the Hanlin Academy.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

In collaboration with Shen Lin he devised well-known heuristics for two NP-complete optimization problems: graph partitioning and the travelling salesman problem.

** Shenzi, attributed to Shen Buhai ; all but one chapter is lost.

** Shenzi, attributed to Shen Dao.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

In China, the polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil animal shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt.

( in the Book of the Devil Valley Master ), A main contributor to this field was Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), a polymath scientist and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, as well as discovering the concept of true north.

In optics, Shen Kuo independently developed a camera obscura.

After the discovery marine fossils in the Taihang Mountains ( hundreds of miles from the Pacific Ocean ), Shen Kuo devised a theory of land formation, or geomorphology.

" The ancient Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) was the first person to write of the magnetic needle compass and that it improved the accuracy of navigation by employing the astronomical concept of true north ( Dream Pool Essays, AD 1088 ), and by the 12th century the Chinese were known to use the lodestone compass for navigation.

* Shen Kuei or " Cat " is a master thief whose skill in martial arts equals Shang-Chi's.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

In China, Shen Tao ( ca.

* Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople: Kenneth S. Eiland, Timm Fujili, Joey Ginza, Patrick Kinser-Lau, Diane Lam, Tony Marinyo, Kevin Maung, Kim Miyori, Dingo Secretario, Freda Foh Shen, Mark Hsu Seyers, Gedde Watanabe, Leslie Watanabe, Ricardo Tobia

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

The Shi Shen astronomy ( 石申天文, Shi Shen tienwen ) is attributed to Shi Shen, and the Astronomic star observation ( 天文星占, Tianwen xingzhan ) to Gan De.

A star catalogue is featured in one of the chapters of the late 2nd-century-BC history work Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ) and contains the " schools " of Shi Shen and Gan De's work ( i. e. the different constellations they allegedly focused on for astrological purposes ).

# The Shen (" divine " ) grotto.

In the East, one of the earliest recorded pharmacopoeias was written by Shen Nung, Emperor of China ( c. 3000 BC ).

The most popular of the k-opt methods are 3-opt, and these were introduced by Shen Lin of Bell Labs in 1965.

Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan first published their method in 1972, and it was the most reliable heuristic for solving travelling salesman problems for nearly two decades.

* Alexander Neckam is the first European to document the mariner's compass, first documented by Shen Kuo during the previous century.

* Chen Shen, former crown prince of the fallen Chen Dynasty, later served as an official in the Sui and Tang dynasties

When King You replaced Queen Shen with the concubine Baosi ( and designated Baosì's son as the crown prince ), the former queen ’ s powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong to sack the western capital of Haojing in 770 BC.

When You replaced his wife with a concubine, the former queen's powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong barbarians to sack the western capital of Haojing and kill King You in 770 BCE.

* Xu Shen (~ 58CE ;~ 147CE )- the former author

Shen Kuo wrote that it was preferable to use the twenty-four-point rose instead of the old eight compass cardinal points — and the former was recorded in use for navigation shortly after Shen's death.

Meng, fearing punishment and bearing hatred against Liu Feng, defected to the Kingdom of Wei along with his subordinates ( amongst them the former Wei officer, Shen Dan ).

In 2002, Lu and his temple ( Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple ) were sued in Washington State by a former member who alleged sexual abuse on the part of Master Lu.

The military governor Duan Wenchang ( a former chancellor ) and the imperial scholar Li Shen both made secret pleas to Qian for certain examinees.

However, when the results were announced, the examinees that Duan and Li Shen recommended were not given passing results, while among those passing the examinations were Zheng Lang, the brother of the examination bureau ( 門下省, Menxia Sheng ) official Zheng Tan ; Pei Zhuan ( 裴譔 ) the son of the military governor Pei Du ( also a former chancellor ); Li Zongmin's son-in-law Su Chao ( 蘇巢 ); and Yang Rushi's brother Yang Yinshi ( 楊殷士 ).

Among Yao's current and former students are Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, whom he coached to three Olympic medals ( two bronzes, one gold ) and seven World medals ; Pang Qing & Tong Jian ; Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao ; Dong Huibo & Wu Yiming ; Li Jiaqi & Xu Jiankun ; and Zhang Yue & Wang Lei.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

** Kou Shen, head official of the Chinese Censorate ( b. 1391 )

Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo was an avid scholar of astronomy, and improved the designs of several astronomical instruments: the gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra clock, and sighting tube fixed to observe the pole star indefinitely.

That was the beginning of Korea colonies in Liaodong, whose head was later called King of Shen ( 瀋王 ).

By 1072, Shen was appointed as the head official of the Bureau of Astronomy.

The meeting ended up with Mr. Docherty pouring water over the head of Shen Hong-Xun, not to prove that empty force does not exist but to suggest that Master Shen was unable to summon and use it at that time.

Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple in Redmond, Washington, the head temple of the TBS.

At Nanking, Song Xilian's 36th Division of 78th Corps guarded north gate, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division of 72nd Corps and Shen Fazao's 87th Division ( under Wang Jingjiu's 71st Corps ) guarded south gate, and Gu Zhenglun / Gui Yongqing's Central Lecturing Echelon guarded three peaks of Purple Mountain.

She was buried by the Central House of the Army with full honors, including a funeral oration at the cathedral of Shen Pjetri, on October 26, 2002, and interred in the public cemetery of Sharra, Albania, in the " VIP plot ".

* Shenendehowa Central School District, abbreviated as Shen