* Xun Yu, advisor to Cao Cao ( d. 212 )

This was an extremely important move for Cao Cao following the suggestion from his primary advisor, Xun Yu, commenting that by supporting the authentic emperor, Cao Cao would have the formal legal authority to control the other warlords and force them to comply in order to restore the Han Dynasty.

* Xun Yu, advisor to Cao Cao ( b. 163 )

" ( 關中將帥以十數 ， 莫能相一 ， 唯韓遂 、 馬超最彊 。) – Xun Yu

Xun Yu, the defender of the capital Xu, sent Cao Cao a letter dissuading him from retreat.

In the ninth month, Xun Yu pointed out that Yuan Shao had been storing supplies at a depot in the village of Gushi ( 故市 ; southwest of present-day Yanjin County, Henan ), guarded by Han Meng.

Very soon afterwards, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu pacified most of Yang Province on the south of the Yangtze River and extended their power into the Wu region and north into the Huai River region, defeating Liu Xun and the remnant forces of Yuan Shu in the north as well as Huang Zu and the forces of Liu Biao to the west.

When Guan Yu left Jing Province to attack Cao Cao's forces in the north, Lu Xun pretended to take over Lü Meng's command of the military on Jing Province's eastern front.

Lu Xun wrote a flattering letter to Guan Yu, praising Guan and putting on a weak front for himself.

Guan Yu lowered his guard against Lu Xun and reduced the number of reserve troops in Jing Province.

As Emperor Yuan's wife Yu Mengmu ( 虞孟母 ) had died years earlier ( in 312 ), and the mother of his oldest son Sima Shao the Crown Prince ( later Emperor Ming ), Lady Xun, had been forced to leave the palace due to Princess Yu's jealousy while she was still alive, Consort Zheng was effectively the mistress of the palace, although she never carried the title of empress.

However, with Liu Yu up in the north, the renegade governor of Guang Province ( 廣州, modern Guangdong and Guangxi ), Lu Xun, rebelled and threatened the capital city Jiankang, before Liu Yu returned and crushed the revolt.

While Liu Yu was sieging Guanggu, Xu Daofu persuaded a reluctant Lu Xun ( who was afraid of a confrontation with Liu Yu ) to attack north, reasoning that eventually when Liu Yu was ready, Liu Yu would attack first, and that with Liu Yu sieging Guanggu, they could capture the rest of the empire together.

Xun Yu ( 163-212 ) was a strategist and statesman who served as an advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history.

Xun Yu was a native of Yingchuan ( 穎川 ; present-day Xuchang, Henan ), and was born in a family of government officials.

Xun Yu's grandfather, Xun Shu, served as a local governor and Xun Shu's eight sons were called the " Eight Dragons of the Xun Family "; an uncle of Xun Yu, Xun Shuang, served as one of the Three Excellencies, while Xun Yu's father Xun Fan was the chancellor of the feudal principality of Jibei.

" 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 ".

Feng Xun is recorded as stating, " If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever "— an indication that men understood that the symbolic erotic fantasy of bound feet did not correspond to its unpleasant physical reality, which was therefore to be kept hidden.

San community representatives declared a preference to be known either by their individual community names (! Xun or ‡ Khomani, for example ) or collectively as Bushmen, rather than as San or Khoisan.

He sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly reconstituted Han regime.

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.

He sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly constituted Han regime.

Wang, aware that Emperor Gengshi was becoming a major threat, sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly constituted Han regime.

Subsequently, on the death of Tao Qian, Cao Cao was tempted to turn around and move on Xu Province before returning to deal with Lü Bu ; it was Xun Yu who dissuaded him from this, reminding him that Yan Province was his heartland and power base and should be secured first before launching campaigns abroad.

References to him could be found in Chen Shou's Records of Three Kingdoms, in the biographies of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and Xun You, from where it could be gathered that Wen was a fierce warrior whose prowess in battle matched that of his counterpart, Yan Liang.

Zhong Hui and Xun Xu believed that Jiang Wei had worn out his troops and that it would be an appropriate time to try to destroy Shu once and for all.

Kong Rong held a pessimistic view, telling Cao Cao's advisor Xun Yu that Yuan Shao would be extremely difficult to defeat as he had ample food supplies, far superior troop strength and many capable and loyal subjects.

Xie Xun is used as the bait, as his fate will be decided by the champion of the martial arts contest.

Xun Linfu, after hearing of Zheng's switch of allegiance, was in favour of retreating ; however, his adjutant Xian Hu, maintaining that it would be cowardly to avoid battle as the hegemonic state, led his own troops across the Yellow River without instructions.

In an essay later collected in the volume Two Minds, Lu Xun wrote that Zhang's complete works could be distilled to a single symbol: a triangle.

Having seen results, Zhen Xun created a second false prophecy — that Princess Huanghuang should be married to him.

He also thought that teamwork was very important in journalism, and consequently asked for help from many talented authors and journalists, including Hu Shih and Lu Xun.

Mencius ( 4th century BC ) articulated the innate goodness in human beings as a source of the ethical intuitions that guide people towards rén, yì, and lǐ, while Xun Zi ( 3rd century BC ) underscored the realistic and materialistic aspects of Confucian thought, stressing that morality was inculcated in society through tradition and in individuals through training.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

His influence was derived primarily from the following elements of his writing: his skillful depiction of historical characters using details of their speech, conversations, and actions ; his innovative use of informal, humorous, and varied language ( even Lu Xun ( 魯迅 ) regarded Shiji as " the historians ' most perfect song, a " Li Sao " without the rhyme "

Other philosophers, theorists, and schools of thought in this era were Mozi, founder of Mohism ; Mencius, a famous Confucian who expanded upon Confucius ' legacy ; Shang Yang and Han Fei, responsible for the development of ancient Chinese Legalism ( the core philosophy of the Qin Dynasty ); and Xun Zi, who was arguably the center of ancient Chinese intellectual life during his time, even more so than iconic intellectual figures such as Mencius.

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

When Sun He succeeded Sun Deng as the new crown prince, he was supported by Lu Xun and Zhuge Ke, while his rival Sun Ba was supported by Quan Cong and Bu Zhi and their clans.

For example, he correctly trusted the faithful Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin, so much so that he made a duplicate imperial seal and left it with Lu Xun ; whenever he would correspond with Shu's emperor Liu Shan or regent Zhuge Liang, he would deliver the letter to Lu Xun first ( as Lu's post was near the Shu border ), and then if, in Lu's opinion, changes were needed, he would revise the letter and then restamp it with Sun's imperial seal.

He walked into the trap set by Zhou Fang and Lu Xun and suffered major losses, but was saved from total annihilation by Jia Kui.

There was a short-lived effort in 1917 to revive the Qing dynasty led by the loyalist general Zhang Xun, but his forces were defeated by rival warlords later that year.

The Lu Xun Academy of Arts was newly founded in Yan ' an on April 10, 1938, and Jiang Qing became a drama department instructor, teaching and performing in college plays and operas.

The sacrifice of a high-ranking male's slaves, concubines or servants upon his death ( called Xun Zang 殉葬 or Sheng Xun 生殉 ) was a more common form.

Ideological antipathy towards the Legalist State of Qin was established as early as 266 BC, when Confucian philosopher Xun Zi disparaged it.

According to Hung's official website, it stars Aaron Kwok, Wu Jing, and Zhou Xun and was filmed for Tsui Siu-Ming ’ s Sundream Motion Pictures.

The Yiwen Leiju encyclopedia was completed by Ouyang Xun in 624 during the Tang Dynasty, with aid from scholars Linghu Defen and Chen Shuda.

However, it was not until after the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and the promotion by scholars and intellectuals such as pragmatist reformer Hu Shih, leftist Lu Xun, Chen Duxiu, and leftist Qian Xuantong that vernacular Chinese, or Bai hua, gained widespread importance.

A close friend of Lu Xun, Qian was a key figure in the May Fourth Movement.

The Chinese author Xiao Xun wrote that when the Ming Dynasty founder Hongwu ( r. 1368 – 1398 ) was destroying the palaces of Khanbaliq belonging to the previous Yuan Dynasty, there were — amongst many other mechanical devices — automatons found that were in the shape of tigers.