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  2. Zou Yan - Wikipedia

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    Zou Yan was a noted scholar of the Jixia Academy in the state of Qi. The British biochemist and sinologist, Joseph Needham , describes Zou as "The real founder of all Chinese scientific thought." [ 1 ] His teachings combined and systematized two current theories during the Warring States period : Yin-Yang and the Five Elements/Phases ( wood ...

  3. Westminster, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Westminster and the nearby community of Long Creek have several commercial apple orchards. [16] Westminster hosts the South Carolina Bigfoot Festival each October. [17] Westminster welcomes car enthusiasts and is a very popular 'cruising' destination where people come from all over the tri-state area to cruise town and show off their vehicles.

  4. Zou Yan (general) - Wikipedia

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    Zou Yan (Chinese: 邹衍; 5 November 1915 – 1 April 2022) was a Chinese military general and politician. He was a founding major general ( shaojiang ) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). He was a representative of the 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party , and a member of the 12th Central Commission for ...

  5. School of Naturalists - Wikipedia

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    Chinese philosopher Zou Yan (鄒衍; 305 – 240 BCE) is considered the founder of the school, [2] and is the best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. Zou Yan was a noted scholar of the Jixia Academy in the state of Qi.

  6. Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), [a] usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, [2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of ...

  7. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    Although yin and yang are not mentioned in any of the surviving documents of Zou Yan, his school was known as the Yin Yang Jia (Yin and Yang School). Needham concludes "There can be very little doubt that the philosophical use of the terms began about the beginning of the 4th century, and that the passages in older texts which mention this use ...

  8. Zou Ye - Wikipedia

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    Zou Ye (Chinese: 邹野 born 20 October 1957 in Henan province, China), is a Chinese modern classical and film music composer. Zou was from the first generation of musical composition graduates from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (then named the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts), when such education resumed with the end of the Cultural Revolution .

  9. Zou Yuan - Wikipedia

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    Zou Yuan is a fictional character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Forest Emerging Dragon", he ranks 90th among the 108 Stars of Destiny and 54th among the 72 Earthly Fiends.