During the Qin Dynasty over two millennia ago, a powerful official named Zhao Gao brought a deer before the emperor and proclaimed it a horse. When the emperor correctly identified it as a deer, Zhao ...

The “Shiji,” an ancient Chinese historical text, contains the following episode. Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a ...

The Records of the Grand Historian records that Zhao Gao (Imperial Chancellor, Qin Dynasty, died 207BC), in an attempt to control the Qin government, devised a loyalty test for court officials using a ...

In the year AD 210, China 's first emperor Qingshihuang died of illness in Shaqiu. Eunuch Zhao Gao colluded with Li Si, premier of Qinshihuang, and killed Prince Fu Su and General Meng Tian. They ...

“Calling a deer a horse,” or “zhi lu wei ma,” is famous Chinese idiom originating from the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC). According to the story, Zhao Gao, the prime minister of the second emperor of the ...