• Jiru (Chinese: 籍孺; lit. 'a boy surnamed Ji') was a trusted personal servant of Emperor Gaozu, the founder of China's Han dynasty. Louis Crompton claims...
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  • Jiru may refer to: Jiru language, a language of Nigeria Jiru, a town in Moretna Jiru, Ethiopia Jiru (Han dynasty) (籍孺: "the boy Ji"), a historical figure...
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    Emperor Gaozu of Han (256 – 1 June 195 BC), also known by his given name Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202...
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  • suicide. After the early demise of the Qin dynasty, the school was officially vilified by the Han dynasty that succeeded it. Despite its outcast status...
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  • Wu wei (section Han dynasty)
    the Han Feizi are still a major influence for the Huainanzi in the Han dynasty. Called "rule by non-activity" and strongly advocated by the Han Feizi...
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    prose writers. Ming dynasty scholar Mao Kun (茅坤) ranked him first among the "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song". Han Yu was born in 768,...
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  • during the Han dynasty and has no historical validity. Likewise the labels Taoism and Confucianism were developed during the Han dynasty by scholars...
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    depending instead on how well that person can rule. Chinese dynasties such as the Han and Ming were founded by men of common origins, but they were...
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    Chinese administration had no single origin, with a major influence by the Han dynasty, grand chancellor Shen Buhai likely played a key role in the development...
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    Laozi (category Zhou dynasty philosophers)
    The story of Laozi has taken on strong religious overtones since the Han dynasty. As Taoism took root, Laozi was worshipped as a god. Belief in the revelation...
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  • verification] and therefore the awesome unlimited power (qi) of divinity. In Han-dynasty traditions, Draco is described as the spear of the supreme God. Heaven...
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    three teachings (Chinese: 三教; pinyin: sān jiào; Vietnamese: tam giáo, Chữ Hán: 三教) are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. The learning and the understanding...
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    secret societies precipitated the Yellow Turban Rebellion during the late Han dynasty, attempting to create what has been characterized as a Taoist theocracy...
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  • philosophical basis for the imperial form of government. During the Han dynasty, the most practical elements of Confucianism and Legalism were taken...
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    millennia, with the first attested commentary on the work written during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD). It has been called "the most important pre-Qin text...
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  • Wang Chong (category Han dynasty essayists)
    meteorologist, naturalist, philosopher, and writer active during the Eastern Han dynasty. He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account...
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    Health Building of the People in the Song Dynasty, by Song Xu, the Gentlemen's Remark on Diets, by Chen Jiru, and the History of the Ming Palace - Preferences...
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    compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE. The Han dynasty Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan looked back on the Warring...
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    Songjiang, Shanghai (category CS1 Simplified Chinese-language sources (zh-hans))
    Wanchun; Statesmen: Gu Yong, Lu Xun, Xu Jie; Litterateurs: Lu Ji, Lu Yun, Chen Jiru, Qian Fu, Gu Qing; Chinese Painting and Calligraphy (Songjiang was listed...
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  • The Han Triumph, also known as Wind Ode, is a Chinese television series based on historical events in the early Han dynasty, beginning with the founding...
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  • Li Si (category People executed by the Qin dynasty)
    208 BC) was a Chinese calligrapher, philosopher, and politician of the Qin dynasty. He served as Chancellor from 246 to 208 BC, first under King Zheng of...
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     1046–771 BC) dynasties. Confucianism was suppressed during the Legalist and autocratic Qin dynasty (221–206 BC), but survived. During the Han dynasty (206 BC...
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    which originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties under the formulations...
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  • The Legend of Qin (TV series) (category Television series set in the Qin dynasty)
    if they are up to something. Yue-er was given a new name and told she was Jiru Qianlong and looks like a major event is going to happen with Mirage, a city...
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    Sun Tzu (category Zhou dynasty philosophers)
    descriptions and classifications. Sun Tzu's historicity is uncertain. The Han dynasty historian Sima Qian and other traditional Chinese historians placed him...
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  • Huang–Lao (category Han dynasty)
    'Huangdi–Laozi') was the most influential Chinese school of thought in the early Han dynasty, having its origins in a broader political-philosophical drive looking...
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    Kong Anguo (category Han dynasty classicists)
    was a Chinese classicist, philosopher, and politician of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China. A descendant of Confucius, he wrote the Shangshu Kongshi...
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    Xunzi (philosopher) (category Zhou dynasty essayists)
    Confucianism, which was crucial to the philosophy's ability to flourish in the Han dynasty and throughout the later history of East Asia. His works were compiled...
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    Shang Yang (category People executed by the Qin dynasty)
    and humble, but in a uniform manner they decide on them in law." The Han dynasty adopted essentially the same denominations of crimes, and conception...
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    Jia Yi (category Han dynasty essayists)
    169 BCE) was a Chinese essayist, poet and politician of the Western Han dynasty, best known as one of the earliest known writers of fu rhapsody and for...
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