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THE HAN DYSTANSTY IS WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN CHINESE CULTURE. EXISTING AS THEIR EQUIVALENT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, TO THIS DAY IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR CHINESE PEOPLE TO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS "HAN". TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER AND THIS DYNASTY STILL HOLDS GREAT INFLUENCE OF THE MODERN POPULOUS. AND YET, IT WAS AN EMPIRE THAT LASTED BARELY FOUR YEARS, COLLAPSING INTO A CATASTROPHIC CIVIL WAR KNOWN AS THE THREE KINGDOMS. DURING THIS PERIOD, WARLORDS FAUGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY, ATTEMPTING TO OVERTHROW ONE ANOTHER UNTIL THREE KINGDOMS STOOD ABOVE THE REST, WITH ONE EVENTUALLY UNITING CHINA AFTER NEARLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FIGHTING. AND YET, THE EVENTS THAT KICKED IT ALL OFF SEEM ALMOST TRIVAL IN COMPARISON. BY THE END OF THE HAN DYNASTY THE POWER OF THE EMPEROR HAD BEEN CRIPPLIED, THE FINAL EMPEROR XIAN, WAS LARGELY JUST A PUPPET OF DONG ZHUO, A WARLORD FROM THE WESTERN PROVENCES. DONG ZHUO LARGELY DID WHAT HE PLEASED, KILLING AND RAPING AS HE WENT. HE DID HOWEVER HAVE A SON, A LEGENDARY WARRIOR, A MAN WHO IS SAID TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT A THOUSAND MEN AT ONCE, LU BU. HOWEVER, DESPITE BEING HIS SON, LU BU WOULD EVENTUALLY GO DOWN IN HISTORY NOT AS THE LEGENDARY WARRIOR HE WAS PRAISED AS, BUT AS A KINSLAYER. YOU SEE, LU BU KILLED HIS FATHER IN THE IMPERIAL SQUARE. BUT WHY? WELL YOU SEE, FEW THINGS COULD TAME THE FIERCE LU BU, BUT ONE THING THAT DID, WAS THE MYSTERIOUS DIAOCHAN. A WOMAN OF DIVINE BEAUTY, THAT COULD SATIATE A MAN WITH A SIMPLE LOOK, A WOMAN LU BU PLANNED TO MARRY. HOWEVER, DONG ZHUO WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT AND PLANNED TO MARRY HER HIMSELF. FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST LOVE, LU BU TRUST A SPEAR THROUGH HIS CHEST, KILLING HIM. BUT WHAT KIND OF WOMAN WOULD COMPEL A MAN TO DO SUCH A THING? HOW CAN A WOMAN BE SO PURE AND PERFECT? WELL, IT'S BECAUSE DIAOCHAN WAS NO SIMPLE WOMAN, NOT ALL. IN FACT, LEGEND HAS IT SHE WAS CLAD IN BLUE, FROM HEAD TO TOE, WITH ROUND LITTLE EARS POKING OUT OF THE TOP OF HER HEAD. SOME EVEN SAY SHE ALMOST LOOKED LIKE A BEAR...
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