Cao Cao died in 220 AD in Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han dynasty, and was posthumously named Emperor of the Wei state that he founded. Pictured are bronze sculptures of miniature soldiers, produced during the Eastern Han Dynasty

曹操于公元220年死于东汉都城洛阳，死后被追封为魏武帝。图为东汉时期青铜士兵雕塑的微缩模型。

According to Mr Ligang the identities of two ladies found in the tomb remained mysterious. A new museum is now planned at the site

根据利刚先生的说法，在陵墓中发现的两位女士的身份仍然很神秘。一个新的博物馆计划在这个遗址上修建。

Among the relics found were stone paintings featuring the social life of Cao's time, stone tablets bearing inscriptions of sacrificial objects, and Cao's personal belongings.

在出土的文物中，有一些石刻画，其中包括曹操时代的社会生活、刻有祭祀物品铭文的石碑和曹操的个人物品。

According to Mr Ligang the identities of two ladies found in the tomb remained mysterious.

根据利刚先生的说法，在陵墓中发现的两位女士的身份仍然很神秘。

History records that Cao Cao was buried with his wife, who died aged between 70 and 80, but the two corpses are of one woman in her fifties and one in her twenties.

历史记载，曹操和他的妻子合葬在一起了，他的妻子死于70岁到80岁之间，但这两具女性遗骸分别只有50多岁和20多岁。

一个新的博物馆计划在这个遗址上修建。

Mr Ligang said it was hoped it would receive its first visitors in around three years.

利刚表示，希望博物馆能在三年内开始接待第一批游客。

Characters based on Cao are depicted as shrewd and unscrupulous villains in traditional Chinese operas and in one of China's best-loved historical novels, 'Romance Of The Three Kingdoms'.

在京剧和最受人们喜爱的历史小说之一《三国演义》中，曹操的角色被描绘成狡猾奸诈的大反派。

In the fictionalised account, Cao says: 'Better for me to wrong the world than for the world to wrong me.'

在小说中，曹说:“宁可我负众人，不可众人负我。”

The common saying in Chinese 'speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives' is the equivalent of the English expression 'speak of the devil'

汉语中还有一句俗语：“说曹操，曹操就到”，跟英语中的“说恶魔，恶魔就到”的意思差不多。

A stone tablet carrying the inscription 'King Wu of Wei' found in the tomb

墓穴中发现的石碑上记载着：魏武帝

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James Wash, L.A., United States, about 8 hours ago

For those who care to know, Cao Cao is pronounced 'chow-chow'.

对于想了解的人，我教你们，曹操的发音是chow-chow