Vega is mentioned in a Chinese legend about Zhang Qian, though some argue that the historical person is not the subject of the legend ; he just shared a name.

In addition to documenting about 2, 500 stars in his extensive star catalogue, Zhang also posited theories about the Moon and its relationship to the Sun ; specifically, he discussed the Moon's sphericity, its illumination by reflecting sunlight on one side and remaining dark on the other, and the nature of solar and lunar eclipses.

A year after Zhang presented his seismometer to the court, officials and candidates were asked to provide comments about a series of recent earthquakes which could be interpreted as signs of displeasure from Heaven.

* The Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.

Zhang Qian did not succeed, but he brought back accurate information about Central Asia.

Cao Cao wrote Sun Quan with a letter intending to intimidate, and in face of Cao's overwhelming force ( estimated to be about 220, 000 men, although Cao claimed 800, 000, against Sun's 30, 000 and the Lius ' combined force of 10, 000 ), many of Sun's subordinates, including Zhang Zhao, advocated surrender.

Zhang Shijie ordered about 1000 warships to be chained together, forming a long string within the bay, and placed Emperor Huaizong's boat in the center of his fleet.

The next day Zhang Hongfan split his naval forces into four parts: one each of the Song's east, north, and south sides, while Hongfan led the remaining faction to about a li away from the Song forces.

Seeing that the battle was lost, Zhang Shijie picked out his finest soldiers and cut about a dozen ships from the formation in an attempted breakout to save the emperor.

Zhang was incarcerated for most of the rest of his life, and his armies disbanded in the meantime ; he did not publicly reveal any more details about the incident and died in 2001.

Zhou Enlai publicly expressed regrets about the incident, while Zhang privately told others he felt the CPC had betrayed him, insofar as his actions had saved the CPC from annihilation but they had put Zhang in custody anyway.

After Guan Yu slew six commanders of the five passes after leaving Cao Cao in search of Liu Bei, Xiahou Dun chased Guan and was about to fight the latter when Zhang Liao arrived with orders from Cao Cao to let Guan leave.

Affected by the news of the defeat in Wuchao and rumors of Guo Tu making slanderous remarks about them, Zhang He and Gao Lan surrendered to Cao Hong and destroyed their weapons.

The characters jiazi became a symbol of the coming change and later, when the followers of Zhang Jue went to battle they wore a yellow cloth bound about their heads as a badge.

The story about Meng Huo's seven captures is recently questioned by many modern academics, including historians like Miao Yue, Tan Liangxiao, and Zhang Hualan.

The so-called Gang of Four ( Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan ) maintains power for about a month, ousted by a coup in October.

According to Yu Huan's Weilüe, although Xiahou Yuan was the overall in command of the defense force of Hanzhong, Liu Bei was really more worried about Zhang He.

The old seal read, " the Great Seal of the Chanyu of Xiongnu " ( 匈奴單于璽, Xiongnu Chanyu Xi ), while the new seal read, " the Seal of the Shanyu of Gongnu of Xin " ( 新恭奴善于章, Xin Gong-nu Shan-yu Zhang ), changing the meanings " ferocious slave " 匈奴 to " respectful slave " 恭奴, " Chanyu " 單于 to " Shanyu " 善于, and " seal " 璽 to " badge " 章, implying that Xiongnu, which Han had treated with some ambiguity about whether it was a vassal, was clearly a vassal of Xin.

A change in the belief that the revolution had been a generally positive change began in late 1980s and 1990s, but Zhang Shizhao was quoted as arguing that " When talking about the Xinhai Revolution, the theorist these days tends to overemphasize.

Zhang Yimou was asked about the change at a screening in Massachusetts and said it was a problem of translation: " If you ask me if ' Our land ' is a good translation, I can't tell you.

Later, Zhang Fei directed about 10, 000 troops through an alternative route to intercept and ambush Zhang He from a direction the latter neglected.

The members consisted of Mao Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing, the leading figure of the group, and her close associates Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

The group was led by Jiang Qing, and consisted of three of her close associates, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

She reportedly had an affair with director, Zhang Min, however she denied it in her autobiographical writings.

Zhang Shijie buried her at the shore.

* The Road Home ( 1999 film ), a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou, featuring Zhang Ziyi in her film debut

Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, William Henry Donald, who had previously been Zhang ’ s adviser ( and had helped him overcome opium addiction ), to Xi ' an for negotiation.

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Cao Cao presented her to Yan Pu after Zhang Lu surrendered.

In 191 BC, at Lü Zhi's insistence, Emperor Hui married his niece Zhang Yan ( Princess Yuan of Lu's daughter ) and made her empress.

Her first step was to install her maternal grandson Zhang Yan ( 張偃 ; Princess Yuan of Lu's son, Empress Zhang Yan's brother ) as the Prince of Lu.

Lady Sun wanted to bring the young Liu Shan along with her, but Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei stopped her on the Yangtze River and retrieved their lord's son.

After the ghost of Dou E revealed the injustice to her father-Dou Tianzhang ( 竇天章 ), who eventually became a liangjunliefangshi inspector ( 兩淮廉訪使 )-Inspector Dou killed the corrupt officials and Zhang Lür.

During that time, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun filibustered Lady Sun from bringing Liu Bei's young son, Liu Shan, with her back to Sun Quan's territory.

Zhang Fei married her and they had a daughter, who became Empress Jing ' ai of Shu.

Empress Lü became worried and asked Zhang Liang to help her son keep his position.

The officials, including Chen Ping and Zhou Bo ( 周勃 ), who would later overthrow the Lü clan after the deaths of both Emperor Hui and Empress Dowager Lü, claimed that Emperor Hui had no sons — but that Empress Zhang, at Empress Dowager Lü's instigation, stole eight boys from other people, put their mothers to death, and made the children her own.

Modern historians have split opinions on the issue, but largely believe that the boys were actually Emperor Hui's sons by concubines and that Empress Zhang did indeed put their mothers to death and make them her own children.

( As, for example, Bo Yang pointed out, it would be logically incongruent, if Empress Zhang did steal these children from elsewhere, for her to put only the mothers but not the fathers to death.

Cao Fang was forced to depose Empress Zhang ( Zhang Ji's daughter ) and replace her with Empress Wang.

While still in Luoyang, Zhang became inspired to write his " Western Metropolis Rhapsody " and " Eastern Metropolis Rhapsody ", which were based on the " Rhapsody on the Two Capitals " by the historian Ban Gu.