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Lu Xun (3)
Lu Xun (陆逊), courtesy name Boyan, was a general and statesman of Eastern Wu who served Sun Quan, destroyed Liu Bei's invasion at Yiling, and crushed Cao Xiu at Shiting.
Lu Xun (鲁迅)
Lu Xun (鲁迅), pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881–1936), Shaoxing-born founder of modern Chinese literature; author of 'Diary of a Madman', 'The True Story of Ah Q', Call to Arms; New Culture Movement leader.
Lu Xun Literary Prize
The Lu Xun Literary Prize (鲁迅文学奖) is a Chinese literary award given every four years by the China Writers Association in seven categories, first awarded in 1997.
Lu Yang
Lü Yang (吕扬, also Lyu Yang; born 1993, Luohe, Henan) is a Chinese rower who won gold in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, after finishing 11th in double sculls at Rio 2016 and 6th in the quad at Paris 2024.
Lu Yanshao
Lu Yanshao (陆俨少, 1909–1993), originally named Tongzu and courtesy-named Wanruo, was a Chinese landscape painter known for drawn clouds and water and his Three Gorges series.
Lu Yao
Lu Yao (路遥, born Wang Weiguo, 1949–1992) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi whose novella Life and novel Ordinary World won the Mao Dun Prize.
Lu Yong
Lu Yong (陆永), Chinese weightlifter born 1986 in Guangxi, 85 kg class. Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 with a 394 kg world-record total; world champion 2009; DNF at London 2012.
Lu You
Lu You (陆游) was a Southern Song statesman and poet, one of the greatest of his era, whose more than 9,000 surviving poems span 1125 to 1209.
Lu Yu (Cao Wei statesman)
Lu Yu (卢毓), courtesy name Zijia, was a Cao Wei statesman, son of the scholar Lu Zhi, who headed personnel selection and ended as Minister of Works.
Lu Yu (Tang dynasty tea scholar)
Lu Yu (陆羽, 733–805) was a Tang dynasty scholar who wrote The Classic of Tea, the earliest surviving monograph on tea, and was later worshipped as the God of Tea.
Lu Yunxiu
Lu Yunxiu (卢云秀), born 1996 in Zhangzhou, Fujian, is a Chinese windsurfer who won gold in women's RS:X at Tokyo 2020 with 36 net points, was 2019 RS:X World Champion, and competes in RS:X and iQFoil.
Lu Yuxiao (卢昱晓)
Lu Yuxiao (卢昱晓, Irene), born 1999 in Shanghai, is a mainland Chinese actress who entered the industry via the 2019 reality show 演技派 and broke through as assassin Shangguan Qian in 云之羽 (2023), later starring in 小巷人家, 五福临门, 入青云, and 轧戏.
Lu Zhaolin
Lu Zhaolin (卢照邻), courtesy name Shengzhi, was a Tang-dynasty poet ranked among the early Tang "Four Talents"; chronically ill, he drowned himself in the Yingshui in 686.
Lu Zhengxiang
Lu Zhengxiang (陆征祥) was a Chinese diplomat who served repeatedly as foreign minister and briefly as premier, and died a Benedictine monk in Belgium in 1949.
Lu Zhenyu
Lu Zhenyu (卢振宇), born in 1969, is a Chinese consumer-electronics executive who was president of Amoi Electronics from December 2007 to 2009, during its restructuring.
Lu Zhi (Eastern Han scholar-official and general)
Lu Zhi (卢植), courtesy name Zigan, was an Eastern Han scholar-official and general from Zhuo commandery who defeated the Yellow Turbans and alone opposed Dong Zhuo's deposition of the emperor.
Lu Zhi (Tang dynasty statesman)
Lu Zhi (陆贽, 754–805), courtesy name Jingyu, was a Tang dynasty statesman and writer who served Emperor Dezong as grand councilor, drafting hundreds of edicts a day during the Zhu Ci rebellion.
Lu Zhi's Memorials from Fengtian
Lu Zhi's Memorials from Fengtian (陸贄奉天奏議) are the memorials and edicts Tang statesman Lu Zhi wrote for Emperor Dezong while the court was besieged at Fengtian in 783.
Lu Zhonglian's refusal to acknowledge Qin as sovereign
Lu Zhonglian's refusal to acknowledge Qin as sovereign (鲁仲连义不帝秦) was a Warring States episode in which the Qi scholar Lu Zhonglian talked the Wei envoy Xin Yuanyan out of urging Zhao to honor the Qin king as emperor.
Lu Zigang
Lu Zigang (陆子冈) was a Chinese jade carver of Suzhou active in the second half of the 16th century during the Ming dynasty, namesake of the Zigang plaque.
Lu-24
Lu-24 (NCC-c-Lu-24, CVCL_3349, RCB1771) is a human small cell lung carcinoma (oat cell) suspension cell line from a 42-year-old Japanese woman, established 1983, doubling time 102 hours, no reported TP53 mutation.
Lu-diĝira
Lu-diĝira, also Lu-dingira, is the name of a Sumerian poet of about 1700 BC, known from the poem The message of Lu-diĝira to his mother.
Lu-Enlila
Lu-Enlila (Sumerian Lú-Enlilá) was a Ur III official responsible for barley at Nippur under King Shu-Suen, known from a barley account and three loan contracts.
Lu'an power station
Lu'an power station is a coal-fired power station in Yu'an District, Lu'an, Anhui Province, China, with two 660 MW ultra-supercritical Huadian units commissioned in 2014.
Lu'an Wangzhuang Coal Mine
Wangzhuang Coal Mine (王庄煤矿) is a large underground coal mine at Changzhi in Shanxi, China, operated by Lu'an Group and known for thick-seam mining technology trials.
Lu2V2O7
Lu2V2O7, or lutetium vanadate, is a ferromagnetic pyrochlore oxide, a Mott insulator that orders below about 70 to 73 K and where the magnon thermal Hall effect was first observed in 2010.
Lua
Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language created in 1993 at PUC-Rio in Brazil by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, designed to extend host programs.
Lua Blanco
Lua Blanco (Lua Maria Blanco, 1987–2026), Brazilian actress and singer, Roberta Messi in Rebelde Brasil and member of Rebeldes; also Malhação, A Força do Querer, albums Mão no Sonho and Órbita; died of intestinal cancer at 39.
Lửa thiêng
Lửa thiêng (Sacred Fire) is the first poetry collection of Vietnamese poet Huy Cận, published in Hanoi in 1940 and a landmark of the New Poetry movement.
Luaka Bop
Luaka Bop is the New York independent record label founded by David Byrne in 1988, run with president Yale Evelev; known for Brazil Classics, Cuba Classics, rediscoveries like William Onyeabor and Tom Zé, and independent since 2006.