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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" [].