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Pages in category "Chinese warriors" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. So Chan; E. Eastern Depot;
Of the two characters of the term, yóu (遊) literally means to "wander", "travel" or "move around", and xiá (俠) means someone with power who helps others in need. The term refers to the way these solitary men travelled the land using physical force or political influence to right the wrongs done to the common people by the powers that be, often judged by their personal codes of chivalry.
The name "Sun Wu" (孫武) does not appear in any text prior to the Records of the Grand Historian, [15] and may have been a made-up descriptive cognomen meaning "the fugitive warrior" – the surname "Sun" can be glossed as the related term "fugitive" (xùn 遜), while "Wu" is the ancient Chinese virtue of "martial, valiant" (wǔ 武), which ...
The 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms glorifies Guan Yu by portraying him as a righteous and loyal warrior. Guan Yu is one of the most altered and aggrandised characters in the novel, [citation needed] which accounts for his popular image in Chinese society.
The following are lists of people significant to the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) of Chinese history. Their names in Mandarin pinyin are sorted in alphabetical order. Fictional characters in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms and those found in other cultural references to the Three Kingdoms are listed ...
The "18 Warriors of Sui-Tang Period" (Chinese: 隋唐十八条好汉) are fictional legendary heroes who lived during the Sui and early Tang dynasties. The concept of the 18 Warriors was first introduced in the traditional historical novel Shuo Tang . The warriors' rankings are based on their martial arts skills and physical strength. Some of ...
The relevancy of these figures to the earliest Chinese people is unknown, since most accounts of them were written from the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BCE) onwards. [22] The sinologist Kwang-chih Chang has generalized the typical stages: "the first period was populated by gods , the second by demigods / culture hero , and the third by ...
Chinese warriors (3 C, 19 P) G. Goliath (18 P) ... Meitei warriors (3 P) Pages in category "Warriors of Asia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.