Faulhaber's formula was generalized by V. Guo and J. Zeng to a q-analog.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

Zeng Guofan's strategy was to rely on local gentries to raise a new type of military organization from those provinces that the Taiping rebels directly threatened.

Qi Jiguang's army was an ad hoc solution to the specific problem of combating pirates, as was Zeng Guofan's original intention for the Xiang Army, which was raise to eradicate the Taiping rebels.

Wen was not given the opportunity to talk, and Zeng Qinghong was the most senior Party member to speak.

Hu also succeeded Jiang as the CMC chairman, but, in an apparent political defeat for Jiang, Xu Caihou, and not Zeng Qinghong was appointed to succeed Hu as vice chairman.

Ultimately, it was a Hunanese army under Zeng Guofan who marched into Nanjing to put down the uprising in 1864.

During the 1990s, Zeng was a close ally of then-general secretary Jiang Zemin, and was instrumental in consolidating Jiang's power.

For years, Zeng was the primary force behind the party's organization and personnel.

During his term in the PSC, although he was formally ranked fifth, Zeng was seen as a ' power broker ' in the party, believed to possess power that was second only to paramount leader Hu Jintao.

A Hakka native of Ji ' an, Jiangxi, Zeng was born in July 1939.

He was the son of Zeng Shan, a revolutionary and the Minister of the Interior.

When Jiang was elevated to national leadership in Beijing following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he brought Zeng Qinghong along as his trusted adviser.

Because he was seen to represent highly partisan interests, many of Jiang's factional opponents in party prevented Zeng from joining the Politburo as a full member for years.

However, Jiang made it clear that a ' pre-condition ' for his stepping down at the 16th Party Congress was for Zeng to become a member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee.

Zeng was also expected to succeed Hu as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission as a condition of Jiang's resignation from the chairmanship in favor of Hu.

Although initially seen as a Jiang loyalist, most observers speculated that Zeng was more liberal than his mentor, and interested in more reforms towarsd transparency, institutionalization, and greater specification of powers in government, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of party and state operations.

In addition, Zeng was said to be a believer in ' inner-party democracy '.

Fan Zeng said, " How glorious it was when Your Majesty first led us to conquer the empire and how weary we are now.

* The Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng is buried ( approximate date ) with lavish tomb items including a 65 set of bronze bells ( bianzhong ) with five octave musical scale and two musical tones that can be produced by each bell.

Zeng stated that Hu had " contributed all his life and built immortal merits for the liberation and happiness of the Chinese people ... His historic achievements and moral character will always be remembered by the Party and our people.

In his twenties, Zeng Gong travelled widely throughout China, befriending the would be reformer Wang Anshi and later recommending him to Ouyang Xiu.

The book, a conversation between Confucius and his student Zeng Shen ( 曾參, also known as Zengzi 曾子 ), is about how to set up a good society using the principle of xiào ( filial piety ), and thus for over two thousand years has been one of the basic texts to be examined on in the Chinese Imperial Civil Service Exams.

In October 2003, Tong Zeng, a Chinese lawyer and a volunteer in a 1998 Chinese-American medical cooperation program, published a book that again speculated that SARS could be a biological weapon developed by the United States against China.

His appointment came as a surprise to some analysts, as it was thought that Zeng Qinghong would be Hu's successor.

By 1959 the club would hire from within and promoted former player Zeng Xuelin as their manager who would return this good faith by winning the 1960 league title as well as the Chinese FA Cup.

Zeng Qinghong, for example, moved from a disciple of Jiang to serving as an intermediary between the two factions.

In 1984, Zeng moved to the Shanghai Municipal Government, where he became a key ally of then-mayor Jiang Zemin.

As the Deputy chief of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee from 1989 to 1993, Zeng guided Jiang, an outsider to national politics, through the inner workings of the party, military and bureaucratic structure in Beijing.

Although Jiang stepped down from the PSC to make way for a younger " fourth generation " of leadership led by Hu Jintao, Jiang continued to wield significant influence with the help of Zeng.

As Jiang Zemin reached the end of his term, many observers speculated that Jiang preferred Zeng Qinghong over Hu Jintao as his successor.

During the SARS outbreak, Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao took very strong and assertive action while Zeng and other Jiang loyalists receded to the background.

However, when Jiang stepped down on 19 September 2004, Xu Caihou, and not Zeng, became Vice-chairman.

When Shanghai party chief Chen Liangyu was dismissed in September 2006, Zeng led the anti-corruption task force against the staunch Jiang ally.

Connections between characters are vague, but the individual stories are eventually pieced together by chapter 40 after Song Jiang succeeds Chao Gai as the leader of the outlaw band, after the latter dies in battle against the Zeng Family Fortress.

In addition, the new Vice-President, Zeng Qinghong, was also seen as a staunch Jiang ally, as he was part of Jiang's Shanghai clique.

As one of the most important leaders of Liangshan, Song Jiang often volunteers to lead the outlaws in the campaigns against the enemies of Liangshan, such as the Zhu Family Village, Gaotangzhou and the Zeng Family Fortress.

The Zeng patriarch, Zeng Nong, decides to come a truce with Liangshan and Song Jiang names his conditions ; hand over Shi Wengong and Yu Baosi and the horses.

The prognostications under the Liubo diagram are headed with one of nine terms that correspond to the words of an enigmatic, mnemonic rhyme about Liubo written by Xu Bochang ( 許博昌 ) during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han ( 141 BCE – 87 BCE ); Lillian Tseng ( Zeng Lanying ) argues that these are the names for particular points on the board ( the two lines of the " V " mark, the two lines of the " L " mark, the two lines of the " T " mark, the circle or line between the corner and the central square, the outside edge of the central square, and the inside of the central square ).

In August 2007, Zeng headed a delegation of several high-ranking Central Government representatives at the celebrations at the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Initially seen as a rival to general secretary Hu Jintao, Zeng showed a willingness to work towards consensus with Hu following Jiang's retirement.

Instead of the desired policy towards foreigners, Zeng took on a more diplomatic stance.

During the battle with the Zeng family, Dai Zong makes great contributions by speeding towards the village and back again several times to gather information about the enemy and eventually paves the way to victory for Liangshan.