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Encyclopedia > Lu Fan

During the Three Kingdoms Era of China Lu Fan was a very succesful and highly ranked general under Sun Quan. He served under Zhou Yu in the battle of red cliff and was the head commander for Sun Quan for a short period of time, dying shortly after his appointment.


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History of Weiqi (3418 words)
Regardless whether it was played between Sun Ce and Lu Fan, it is the oldest Weiqi record in the world.
Lu Sun of the Wu Kingdom was known as to trick the Wei Army With Weiqi.
Cao Lu of Xi Jin (265-316 A.D.) mentioned using rhino horns and ivory as fl and white stones, indicating that these exotic material have been used as go stones as early as 1700 years ago.
Yang Xiong [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (4927 words)
Lu) and the Huainanzi (The Master of Huainan), which blend various streams of ancient Chinese thought, including Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Huang-Lao thought, Militarism, Mohism, and yinyang and wuxing (Five Phase) thought.
Generally speaking, the Old Text School was associated with the simpler, more pragmatic philosophy of Confucius’s native state of Lu, while the New Text school was associated with the often fantastic writings of Zou Yan (305-240 BCE), a native of Qi and founder of the yinyang and wuxing schools of thought.
As Yang Xiong explains in his autobiography, Fan Sao was written in response to Li sao (Encountering Sorrow), a poem by the legendary Warring States poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BCE).
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