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Also Known As Hua T’o
Flourished 175 - 225
Subjects Of Study hemp • anesthetic

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Guandi with (left) his son Guan Ping and (right) his squire Zhou Cang, painting on paper; in the Religionskundliche Sammlung der Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Ger.
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