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Yi Yuanji (Chinese: 易元吉; Wade-Giles: I Yüan-chi) (c. 1000, Changsha, Hunan [1] – c. 1064) was a Northern Song dynasty painter, famous for his realistic paintings of animals. According to Robert van Gulik , Yi Yuanji's paintings of gibbons were particularly celebrated.
Yi Yuanji achieved a high degree of realism painting animals, in particular monkeys and gibbons. [16] During the Southern Song period (1127–1279), court painters such as Ma Yuan and Xia Gui used strong black brushstrokes to sketch trees and rocks and pale washes to suggest misty space.
Yi (易), Yick, or Yik is a Chinese surname. A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan .
Li Yuanji was born in 603, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui.He was the fourth and final son of Li Yuan the Duke of Tang, a hereditary noble, and Li Yuan's wife Duchess Dou, who was herself the daughter of Dou Yi (竇毅) the Duke of Shenwu and Northern Zhou's Princess Xiangyang.
The Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is home to the largest population of Yi people within China, with two million Yi people in the region. In neighbouring Vietnam , as of 2019 [update] , there are 4,827 Lô Lô people (a subgroup of the Yi) living in the Hà Giang , Cao Bằng , and Lào Cai provinces , in the country's north.
The Sixteen Prefectures (yellow) wedged between Liao (gray) in the north and Northern Song (light gray) in the south. Some distance to its west is Western Xia (deep gray). The Sixteen Prefectures, more precisely known as the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan-Yun (traditional Chinese: 燕雲十六州; simplified Chinese: 燕云十六州; pinyin: Yānyún Shíliù Zhōu) or the Sixteen Prefectures of ...
Huizi. The Huizi (simplified Chinese: 会子; traditional Chinese: 會子; pinyin: huì zi), issued in the year 1160, was the official paper money of the Chinese Southern Song dynasty.
Wang Yuanji (217 – 20 April 268 [4]) was a Chinese noble lady, aristocrat and later empress dowager of the Jin dynasty, who lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was the wife of Sima Zhao , a regent of Cao Wei .