A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fan Ts'êng
544 Fan Ts'êng 范增. B.C. 278-204. The famous counsellor, first of Hsiang Liang, and afterwards of Hsiang Chi, who is said to have advised the assassination of Liu Pang, and who smashed to atoms with his sword the jade vessels sent to him as a present by that potentate. The title 亞夫 Ya4 Fu3 was granted to him by Hsiang Chi; but falling under suspicion of treacherous dealings with Liu Pang, his power was curtailed; whereupon he retired in disgust, and soon afterwards died.