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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.
When Zhou Yu asks Zhuge Liang for evidence that Cao Cao wants the Two Qiaos, Zhuge Liang says he heard that Cao Cao asked his son Cao Zhi to write a poem, "Ode to the Bronze Sparrow Platform" (銅雀臺賦). Zhuge Liang recites the poem and points out that Cao Cao's desire to have the Qiaos is evident in the poem.
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 ...
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.
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
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[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 ...
Al-Tabari inferred that there were two Dhu al-Qarnayn's: the earlier one, called Dhu al-Qarnayn al-Akbar, who lived in the time of Abraham, and the later one, who was Alexander. [34] In one account concerning Abraham building a well at Beersheba, Dhu al-Qarnayn seems to have been placed in the role of Abimelech as described in Gen 21:22–34. [35]