If you don’t enter the tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s cub?

Ban Chao (Chinese: Ban Chao ; pinyin: Ban Chao; Wade-Giles: Pan1 Ch’ao1; 32-102 CE), courtesy name Zhongsheng, was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and military general of the Eastern Han dynasty. He was born in Fufeng, now Xianyang, Shaanxi.