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	Emperor Wu of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Wu successfully repelled the nomadic Xiongnu from systematically raiding northern China and dispatched his envoy Zhang Qian in 139 BC to seek an alliance with the Yuezhi of modern Uzbekistan.
		Emperor Wu was greatly pleased by this gesture, and he dispatched an expedition force to attack Minyue, over the objection of one of his key advisors, Liu An, a royal relative and the Prince of Huainan.
		Emperor Wu dispatching Zhang Qian to Central Asia from 138 to 126 BCE, Mogao Caves mural, 618-712 CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Han_Wu_Di (5919 words)

	Wu Qiu Shou Wang
		Wu was a native of Zhao (south west of Zhao Cheng in Shanxi) and was a student of the renowned Dong Zhongshu.
		Emperor Han Wu Di was a great fan of Gewu (also known as Saizhan) and established this Game Official position to serve himself.
		Wu Qiu Shou Wang thus explained, 'This ding was known as the Zhou Ding during the Zhou Dynasty.
	www.yutopian.com /chinesechess/stories/wushou.html (489 words)

	Chinese history:Western Han
		The Han rulers modified some of the harsher aspects of the previous dynasty; Confucian ideals of government, out of favor during the Qin period, were adopted as the creed of the Han empire, and Confucian scholars gained prominent status as the core of the civil service.
		The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "people of Han," are named, was notable also for its military prowess.
		The Han rulers, however, were unable to adjust to what centralization had wrought: a growing population, increasing wealth and resultant financial difficulties and rivalries, and ever-more complex political institutions.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/xhan.htm (401 words)

	Confucianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Debated during the Warring States Period and forbidden during the short founder Qin dynasty Confucianism was chosen by Han emperor Han Wu Di and used as a political system a kind of state religion.
		The new Han Dynasty approved of the doctrine and sponsored scholars in the court.
		After the short violent dynasty of Qin Liu Bang founded the Han dynasty and soon after the Emperor Han Wu Di decided that China was a confucianist and launched the examination system.
	www.freeglossary.com /Confucianism (4171 words)

	Han Emperor Wu-ti
		He was the sixth emperor of Han and only sixteen when he came to the throne.
		Throughout the Chin and Han period (221 BC-220 AD) China's most formidable foreign opponent was the Xiongnu, a Turkish-speaking nomadic tribe which, at its apex of power early in the second century BC, held sway over a territory that extended all the way from Eastern Mongolia to the Aral Sea.
		Wu-ti's initial attempt to trade the Celetial Horses with gold coins was rejected by the king of Fergana and the Han envoy sent for the negotiation was murdered and stripped.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/wuti.shtml (1513 words)

	Emperor Wu Di of the Han and His tomb Mao Ling - Silk Road and Silk Road Travel in China
		Emperor Wu Di of the Han Dynasty (156 BC-87 AD) is considered one of the wisest emperors in Chinese history.
		He was the fifth emperor of the Han and the Han regime under his half-century rule reached the zenith of the dynasty.
		The emperor sent Zhang Qian to open the Silk Road to the West and China under him made outstanding achievements in politics, economy, culture and military affairs.
	www.chinaplanner.com /silkroad/shaanxi/srd_ewdh.htm (259 words)

	Ganoderma Lingzhi History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During the reign of Emperor Han Wu Di about 2100 years ago, this herb were found growing all over the palace.
		During that time, Emperor Han was so elated that he ordered his peoples to offer Lingzhi as an annual item of tribute.
		The Emperor was said to be favored by Heaven, and ruled China for 51 years.
	www.ganoderma-for-health.com /lingzhi.html (463 words)

	Emperor Wudi of Han (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Emperor Wu, namely Liuche, was the sixth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD).
		Emperor came to the throne at the age of sixteen.
		Emperor Wu's most important military campaigns were against the Xiongnu, an ancient tribe that lived in North China and posed a powerful threat to the Han Empire.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/emperor_wu.htm (371 words)

	wiki/Culture of China Definition / wiki/Culture of China Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Debated during the Warring States Period and forbidden during the short-lived Qin dynasty, Confucianism was chosen by Han emperor Han Wu Di and used as a political system and a kind of state religion.
		Chinese characterChinese characters or Han characters (汉字/漢字) are used in the written forms of the Chinese language, and to varying degrees in the Japanese and Korean languages (though the latter only in South Korea).
		Han Chinese clothing - Qipao - Ming official headwearThe headwear of a Han Chinese official during Ming Dynasty China consisted of a fl hat with two wing-like flaps (small thin oval boards) on each side.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Culture_of_China (8513 words)

	Music of China
		The Imperial Music Bureau, first established in the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), was greatly expanded under the Emperor Han Wu Di (140-87 BC) and charged with supervising court music and military music and determining what folk music would be officially recognized.
		The Han Chinese, who make up some 92% of the population of China, play heterophonic music in which the musicians plays versions of a single melodic line.
		Han folk music thrives at weddings and funerals and usually included a form of oboe called a shawm (Ch.
	www.askfactmaster.com /enc-zh/En:Music_of_China (3041 words)

	Imperial Eras
		First Emperor), a formulation previously reserved for deities and the mythological sage-emperors, and imposed Qin's centralized, nonhereditary bureaucratic system on his new empire.
		Revolts broke out as soon as the first Qin emperor died in 210 B.C. His dynasty was extinguished less than twenty years after its triumph.
		The collapse of the Han dynasty was followed by nearly four centuries of rule by warlords.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial.html (968 words)

	Liu Zhe (Wudi) - Western Han Ruler and Emperor Biographies - English
		Emperor Wu’s reign prolonged the prosperity of the Dynasty.
		After proving himself as a manager, he might move up to a position as an advisor in attendance at the Emperor’s palace, or move to a high position at a regional capital.
		In the south, Wu-di’s armies conquered territory lost during the civil war that brought the Han to power, including the port town of Guangzhou.
	www.kongming.net /novel/han/liuzhe.php (1375 words)

	Confucianism in China
		The loss of might (or, said in a Chinese way, the loss of Dao) of the previous Zhou emperors drove China to permanent civil war and many wished to reunify the country (although the contention that China was unified previously is debatable).
		After the short and violent dynasty of Qin, Liu Bang founded the Han dynasty and, soon after, the Emperor Han Wu Di decided that China was a confucianist state and launched the examination system.
		After the Qin dynasty was overthrown by the Han, there was the monumental task of recreating all of the knowledge that was destroyed.
	www.chineseculture.info /culture/confucianism.htm (4055 words)

	Han Dynasty Extends of The Great Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After three years of civil war in 206 BC the first Han Dynasty was formed under the Gao Di Emperor, Liu Bang.
		The Han leadership knew to have a strong frontier they not only needed to build a strong wall but they also needed crack troops to defend it.
		By the time of the sixth Han Emperor Wu Di some 66 years later, they had crushed the Xiongnu and the wall was extended some 300 miles into the Gobi Desert.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Tourism/history-Great-Wall-4-Han.html (295 words)

	SPCNET.TV - Han Wu Da Di (Starring Chen Bao Guo as Liu Che)
		HWDD is based on Sima Qian's "Shi Ji" and Ban Gu's "Han Shu", so this will definitely be the most historically accurate series thus far about Han Wu Di and his reign.
		Han jing di is a goner already, his young son, who i must say looks to be more capable than his old man, has suceeded him.
		moreover, when they switched actors from the teenage Han wu di to the adult one, they failed to use a buffer period or a phrase like 'a few years have passed', instead it seemed like his face changed dramatically overnight.
	www.spcnet.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=10534 (1832 words)

	MindZine - Go - Feature: Chinese poetry
		But he was known as a good go player, of the third class, and was summoned once by the Emperor to play for the stake of the governorship of a city.
		The even more glorious Han Emperor Wu Di (the Song Emperor was of the same house of Liu) obtained a horse from Ferghana, modern Khokand, which was famous for breeding the finest animals.
		He ordered a bronze of the horse to be cast outside the Lu Ban gate (Lu Ban being a man from Lu later deified as the god of carpenters) which thus became known as the Gate of the Golden Horse, later abbreviated to Golden Gate.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/orient/go/special/cpoem3.html (544 words)

	Chinese Music
		In the mid-1980s popular ballads and Western folk and classical music still drew the greatest audiences, but other kinds of music, including previously banned Western jazz and rock and roll, were being performed and were receiving increasing acceptance, especially among young people.
		The qin is perhaps the national instrument of China, and its virtuosos are stars.
		Han folk music thrives at weddings and funerals and usually included a form of oboe called a shawm and percussive ensembles called chuigushou.
	www.chineseculture.info /culture/music.htm (2168 words)

	Beautiful Ladies wearing Han Fu - Kung Fu Magazine Forums
		its a Han era aristocrat Han Fu the actress wearing it is Yang Tong Shu and its for the TV drama Han Wu Da Di (based on the life of Emperor Han Wu Di)
		To say that the Yamato Kingdom was in close contact with the Kingdom of Wu is a gross simplification and a wild claim.
		Sigh, the crew of Han Wu Da Di just took a Japanese heian style kimono, changed it a bit, and called it a Han era dress.
	ezine.kungfumagazine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=37425 (1178 words)

	Chinese New Year History
		The Chinese New Year reverts back to 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac.
		According to Emperor Han Wu Di's Almanac, it begins with the first New Moon of the modern New Year and ends on the Full Moon 15 days later.
		The fable describes a village in China that was destroyed by an evil monster one winter night.
	www.fireworks.com /holidays/Chinese-New-Year.asp (820 words)

	eThaiCD.com :: HK serie : Emperor Han Wu Di II - Box 1
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		Emperor Han Wu Di II Box.1 - ชุด 1
	www.ethaicd.com /show.php?pid=18629 (138 words)

	Silk Road
		The Western Han Dynasty (BC206-AD25) witnessed the most powerful kingdom of early China under the rule of Emperor Han Wu Di.
		A diplomat and explorer, Zhang Qian, was charged by the emperor to open the western regions and quell the tribes threatening the northern territories.
		After ten years of enslavement, hardship and torture, he finds himself in a land of vast wealth and rich culture.
	www.prcmovie.com /library/silk.html (142 words)

	Jiuquan - Gansu Province travel guide - China travel guide, Gansu China travel services, Gansu tours
		Jiuquan, or wine spring, is lacated in the western part of Hexi corridor.
		Legend has it that during the Western Han.
		Emperor Wu Di sent general Hurl Qubing ajar of wine to reward his victory over the I Hun.
	www.chinaplanner.com /gansu/gsu_jiqu.htm (223 words)

	Chinese Astrology - Zodiac Information
		In the past the current emperor determined the start of the New Year.
		Today celebrations are based on Emperor Han Wu Di's almanac.
		It uses the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year as the start of Chinese New Year.
	www.chinese-astrology.co.uk /zodiac.html (716 words)

	Bactrian and Indo-Greeks (250 BC - 55 BC) - DBA 50
		When Alexander died in Babylon, his empire was split into several kingdoms, four large - Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Lysimachid and Antigonid - and many small.
		Around 40 BC, a Chinese traveller was to marvel at the straight streets, deep wells, and "great mansions like we have in China." Because the Chinese had always thought only barbarian horsemen lived to the west, they were rather surprised.
		The emperor Han Wu-Di was so fascinated by this kingdom that he sent out a delegation to make contact with them.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba50lim.html (809 words)

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		In Japan, Korea and Vietnam, for example, celebrations are known as Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival.
		At one point in Chinese history, the current emperor designated the start of the New Year.
		Contemporary celebrations are based on Emperor Han Wu Di’s almanac.
	www.unmc.edu /News/chinesenewyear.htm (802 words)

	Q - Information about Everything and Everybody
		Biography of Qi, Concubine - (died 194 BC)
		Biography of Zhang Qian - spent 12 years starting in 138 BC exploring much of Central Asia for Emperor Han Wu Di
		Biography of Wu Qingyuan - (born 1914), better known as Go Seigen, the preeminent go player of the 20th century
	q.qardinalinfo.com (208 words)

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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/aa7d972d13f9a65da19afeb4da09e526.html (89 words)

	THE BAYCITIES OBSERVER Virginia McCullough
		So we have: the Millennium (Christian calendar) plus Year of the Dragon plus 1/1 of the Chinese lunar calendar plus "Beginning of Spring" on the Chinese solar calendar.
		In the past the New Year has been celebrated at different times, depending on when the current emperor wanted to start a New Year.
		author Theodora Lau states that the emperor Huang Ti introduced the concept of the lunar calendar in 2637 B.C. The lunar calendar runs in 60 year cycles which are further divided into five year cycles of 12 years each.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /vmchinesenewyear2,15,00.htm (1522 words)

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