Portal:China/Anniversaries/December/December 8

Events

• 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
• 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.

Births

• 1900 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American chemist
• 1983 – Liu Song, Chinese snooker player