Sun Deng
Second, the "Hou Hanshu" biography of the scholar Di Pu mentions Sun Deng. When Di Pu was restoring lost books in the imperial library, he told his colleague Sun Yi about a book that said the rebel Sun Deng used his brilliance to harm Han court eunuchs []. The "Hou Hanshu" commentary identifies it as the apocryphal Confucian text "Chunqiu baoqqian tu" , which says, "The anti-Han rebel leader Sun Deng was a big, tall man who employed ingenious methods and many techniques, although without a classical education, he was a sage who said little" [].