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Faxian (337 – 422), Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), pilgrim to India, and travelogue author during the Jin and Liu Song dynasties.
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Faxian (337 – 422), Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), pilgrim to India, and travelogue author during the Jin and Liu Song dynasties.
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Han Hao (? – 218), Late 2nd/early 3rd century military officer serving warlord Cao Cao.
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Wu Yi (Three Kingdoms) (? – 237), Chinese general of Shu Han state (died 237).
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Zhang Zhongjing (150 – 219), a physician and pharmacologist (150–219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China.
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Liu Shaoqi (24 November 1898 – 12 November 1969), 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898–1969).
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Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976).
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Li Xiangjun (1624 – 1654), courtesan, singer, and musician during the Ming dynasty.
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Weizi Qi, older brother of Zi Shou (King Zhou of Shang), first ruler of the client state Song of Zhou dynasty.
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Tianhuang Dadi, in full the Supreme Emperor of the Curved Array's Upper Palace, also called the Gouchen Emperor, is one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism and the lord of the Tianhuang star. He is the eldest son of Doumu Yuanjun and the elder brother of the Ziwei Emperor. He assists the Jade Emperor in ruling heaven, earth and humanity and presides over war, and his Curved Array star is linked to the fortunes of earthly emperors.
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King Duosi is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a southern tribesman, lord of the Tulong cave and called the wisest man of the south, an ally of Meng Huo. Wikidata records 225 as his death year within the work. He used the terrain and the poisoned springs to hold off Shu, but at Sanjiang city Zhuge Liang's stratagem broke him and he was trampled to death by his own war elephant.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]
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The Demon King of Confusion is a monster in Journey to the West, tall, carrying a great sword, able to ride the clouds, and living in the Shuizang cave of Mount Kanyuan. While Sun Wukong is away learning the arts, he seizes the monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain as slaves, and is killed by Sun Wukong on his return, the first monster Sun Wukong defeats. The name is also used for a person of great power who defies all rules.
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The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal is a deity of Chinese folk religion, belonging to the Great Sage cult, and also a title borne by characters in literature, the best known being Sun Wukong in Journey to the West. Scholars cited in the article think the figure may derive from an old monkey-god cult of the Min-Yue region.[^wikidata][^zhwiki]
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Jin Yuanyang is the senior maid of the Lady Dowager in Dream of the Red Chamber, a household-born slave of the Jia family and the Lady Dowager's trusted right hand. Her brother Jin Wenxiang is the purchasing agent of the Lady Dowager's rooms. When Jia She wants to take her as a concubine she swears she would die before yielding, and she is freed from his pursuit only when the Lady Dowager steps in. In the last forty chapters she hangs herself in despair after the Lady Dowager's death.
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