* 625 BC — Death of Yuan Taotu, China

For example, Yuan Taotu took the second character of his grandfather's style name Boyuan ( 伯爰 ) as his surname.

Traditional sources trace the surname to Yuan Taotu, a 7th century BC Chen nobleman, who was part of a collateral branch of the family of the marquis ruling that state.

Yuan Taotu was granted a feoff in Yangxia ( 陽夏 ), in what is now Taikang county, Henan.

* Yuan Taotu ( circa 7th century BC ): nobleman and diplomat of Chen.

Yuan Taotu was a distant relative of the Chen royal family, with a fief at Yangxia ( Taikang, Henan province ).

The next year, Yuan Taotu was sent as representative of Chen to Diquan, to renew the state's allegiance to the King of Zhou and to consult about an invasion of Zheng.

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This mid 14th century work compiled during the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty ( before 1375, when its co-editor Liu Ji died ) stated that mines were made of cast iron and were spherical in shape, filled with either ' magic gunpowder ', ' poison gunpowder ', or ' blinding and burning gunpowder ', any one of these compositions being suitable for use.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu ( present-day Beijing ) in 1368.

After Yuan died, Cao killed Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan ( 173 – 205 CE ), who had fought with his brothers over the family inheritance.

The Empress Dowager and the Guangxu Emperor died within a day of each other in November 1908. and sources indicate that the will of the Emperor specifically ordered Yuan be executed.

More provinces rebelled until Yuan died from uremia on 5 June 1916, at the age of fifty-six.

** Yuan Kefan ( 袁克藩 ), died young

Since the Khan conquered China and established the Yuan Dynasty which lasted from 1271 to 1368, this led to the renewal in China of the Tantric practices which had died out there many years earlier.

Yuan Shikai ejected the Kuomintang party from China's elected assemblies in 1913, dissolved parliament in 1914, declared himself emperor in 1915, and died in 1916.

* Yuan Shikai of China ( 1915 ) – became Emperor, rescinded throne, died in office 1916.

After Yuan died, the National Assembly reconvened on 1 August 1916 under the pretext that its three-year term had been suspended and had not expired, but President Li Yuanhong was forced to disband it due to the Manchu Restoration on 13 June 1917.

The Yuan Dynasty, successors to the Song, which were a continuation of the Mongolian Empire, seem to have all but forgotten the cataphract traditions of their predecessors, and the last remaining traces of cataphracts in East Asia seems to have died with the downfall of the Yuan in 1368.

Kublai Khan, after having conquered all of China and established the Yuan Dynasty, died in 1294, and was succeeded by his grandson Temur Khan, who continued Kublai's policies.

In 199 Yuan Shu died of sickness along with his short-lived dynasty.

Yuan Shao died two years later and his youngest son Yuan Shang was made his successor.

When King Gongmin died in 1374, the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia tried to appoint him again and a faction in Goryeo welcomed the plan, but it was eventually failed.

The most famous one being Huo shao yuan ming yuan ( 火燒圓明園 ; also known as Burning of the Imperial Palace, or The Burning of Yuan Ming Yuan ), directed by Richard Li Han Hsiang ( 李翰祥, born 7 March 1926 in Jinxi, China ; died 17 December 1996 in Beijing, China ) in 1983.

Having his path blocked, Yuan Shu turned back to Shouchun and died there later.

In fall 497, Emperor Xiaowen created Feng Run to be empress, and when Yuan Ke's mother Consort Gao subsequently died, common belief was that Empress Feng had her secretly poisoned so that she could raise Yuan Ke herself.

She died during the burning of the Yuan Ming Yuan summer palace.

Image: Xiao and Xiang rivers. jpg | The Xiao and Xiang Rivers, by Dong Yuan ( c. 934-962 AD ), Chinese

** Consort Feng Yuan ( b. c. 48 BC )

The earliest known depiction of a fishing reel comes from a Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ) painting done in 1195 by Ma Yuan ( c. 1160 – 1225 ) called " Angler on a Wintry Lake ," showing a man sitting on a small sampan boat while casting out his fishing line.

* Consort Feng Yuan ( b. c. 48 BC )

Painting by Dong Yuan ( c. 934 – 962 ).

Separately in southern China, the Chuci is ascribed to Qu Yuan ( c. 340-278 BCE ) and his follower Song Yu ( fl.

** Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon ; this one-day holiday dubbed the Dragon Boat Festival was held in honor of an ancient Chinese statesman Qu Yuan ( c. 340 BC-278 BC ) from the State of Chu.

The best-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan ( c. 340 – 278 BCE ) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty.

Guan Hanqing () ( c. 1241-1320 ), sobriquet " the Oldman of the Studio " ( 齋叟 Zhāisǒu ), was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty.

In Songs of Chu ( c. 340-278 BC ), Chapter 3 " Asking Heaven " (), author Qu Yuan writes that Nüwa molded figures from the yellow earth, giving them life and the ability to bear children.

( Furthermore, the ' Phags-pa script, an alphabetic script of Tibetan origin, had been used to write Chinese itself during the Mongolian Yuan dynasty, c. 1270-1360, although it later fell out of use.

Ma Zhiyuan (, c. 1250 – 1321 ), courtesy name Dongli ( 東籬 ), was a Chinese poet and celebrated playwright, a native of Dadu ( 大都, present-day Beijing ) during the Yuan Dynasty.

Dong Yuan (, Gan: dung3 ngion4 ) ( c. 934 – c. 962 ) was a Chinese painter.

This is in common with Early Mandarin of the Yuan Dynasty ( c. 14th century AD ) and with a number of modern southern varieties of Chinese.

* Yuan Renlin ( c. 18th century ): Linguist, noted for his study of grammatical particles.

* Yuan Dehui ( c. 19th century ) was an interpreter, best known for translating sections of Emerich de Vattel's Le droit des gens into Chinese.

Budashiri Khatun, or in Sinicized form Putashali ( born c. 13th century ) was a regent of the Yuan Dynasty between 1332 and 1333.

Ahmad Fanākatī ( c. 1220 – 1282 ) was a Muslim financial minister of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty.

The commentary referred to as that of ' Ma Yuan Tai ( Ma Shi )' would most likely be Ma Xuan Tai ( c. 1580 ).

The art of gentleman scholars tended to idealize retreat into the beauties of nature and contemplation, an idea parallel to the travel literature of Su Shi and Yuan Hongdao ; painting by Song Dynasty artist Ma Yuan, c. 1200 – 1230.

Bai Renfu or Bo Renfu (, c. 1226 — 1306 ), also known as Bai Pu or Bo Pu () ( the transliteration of Bai also appears as Bo or Po ) is a renowned Chinese playwright of the Yuan Dynasty.