Warlord who seized the Han capital Luoyang in 189 and ruled through a puppet emperor, setting off the wars of the Three Kingdoms era. He was killed by his own guard 吕布, in 三国演义 over the beauty 貂蝉.
Dong Zhuo was a powerful minister at the end of the Eastern Han.
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A children's song of his day hid his doom in a character riddle: 千里草，何青青；十日卜，不得生, 'grass of a thousand li, so green; ten days' divination, he shall not live'. Grass over 千 and 里 makes 董, and 卜 over 日 over 十 makes 卓.
