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The two towers rise, one on either flank, This named Golden Phoenix, that Jade Dragon. He would have the two Qiaos, these beautiful ladies of Wu, That he might rejoice with them morning and evening. Look down; there is the grand beauty of an imperial city, And the rolling vapors lie floating beneath.
Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu and Lu Su then have a conversation in Zhou Yu's house. Zhuge Liang says he has a plan to make Cao Cao to retreat without fighting a war: send Cao Cao the Two Qiaos. He also pretends that he does not know whom the Qiao sisters married, when in fact the younger sister Xiao Qiao is married to Zhou Yu, while the elder sister Da ...
Several operas even toy with the idea that Sun Quan had Sun Ce assassinated so that he could take control of the warlord state, though there is no historical evidence to support this view. In the opera Fenghuang Er Qiao, Sun Ce borrows 3,000 troops from Yuan Shu and allies with the Qiao army, which is led by the Two Qiaos. Sun Ce, the ...
Place of creation: China: Credit line: Purchase, Bequests of Edna H. Sachs and Flora E. Whiting, by exchange; Fletcher Fund, by exchange; Gifts of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham and Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, by exchange; and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2016
The Dugu sisters were part-Xianbei, part-Han sisters of the Dugu clan who lived in the Western Wei (535–557), Northern Zhou (557–581) and Sui (581–618) dynasties of China.
Two Qiaos, pair of sisters that lived during the late Han Dynasty, the younger of which is known as "Xiaoqiao" (小喬) Xiaoqiao, Hebei (小樵镇), town in Jinzhou; Xiaoqiao, Jiangxi (孝桥镇), town in Linchuan District, Fuzhou on List of township-level divisions of Jiangxi
[1] [better source needed] The Qiaos are descendants of the Ji (姬) family. This name was named after a mountain. According to the legend, the ancient king Huang Di was buried in mountain of Qiao Shan (Huangling in Shaanxi). Some of Huang Di's descendants were responsible for taking care of his grave, and they eventually adopted Qiao as their ...
Cao Cao holds a feast on the Bronze Bird Terrace, in chapter 56 of the illustrated 1591 edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel. The Bronze Bird Terrace (traditional Chinese: 銅雀臺; simplified Chinese: 铜雀台; pinyin: Tóngquètái) was an iconic structure in the city of Ye built in AD 210 by Cao Cao, the prominent warlord of the late Eastern Han dynasty.