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  2. Quiet Night Thought - Wikipedia

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    Since its conception during the Tang dynasty, "Quiet Night Thought" remains one of Li Bai's most famous and memorable poems.It is featured in classic Chinese poetry anthologies such as the Three Hundred Tang Poems and is popularly taught in Chinese-language schools as part of Chinese literature curricula.

  3. List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia

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    Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames, and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "old hundred families" (Chinese: 老百姓; pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng; lit.

  4. Hundred Family Surnames - Wikipedia

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    2nd: Qian (錢) is the surname of the kings of Wuyue. 3rd: Sun (孫) is the surname of the queen Sun Taizhen of Wuyue king Qian Chu. 4th: Li (李) is the surname of the kings of Southern Tang. The next four, Zhou 周, Wu 吳, Zheng 鄭, and Wang 王, were the surnames of the other wives of Qian Chu, the last king of Wuyue. [8]

  5. Eunuchs in China - Wikipedia

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    The Ming eunuch hats were similar to the Korean royal hats, indicating the foreign origins of the Ming eunuchs, many of whom came from Southeast Asia and Korea. [83] Yishiha was a Jurchen eunuch in the Ming dynasty during the Yongle emperor's period and Jurchen women were also concubines of the Ming Yongle emperor. [84] [85]

  6. Yue Guang - Wikipedia

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    Yue Guang was born to a poor family and lived in the lowest social class, but was appreciated by several high-ranking government officials due to his moral integrity and ability in his childhood. With their assistance, Yue Guang began his political career and served as assistant minister , archer coordinator, and tutor of the crown prince .

  7. Xingyiquan - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] Yue historically learned spear play from Chen Guang (陳廣), who was hired by the boy's paternal grandfather, Yao Daweng (姚大翁). [13] [14] Beginning in the late Ming era and Ji Longfeng's time, evidence for the art's history grows firmer. Ji Longfeng, also known as Ji Jike, is the first person which all agree had both existed ...

  8. Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia

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    Yue Guang Zhuan: Biography of Yue Guang: Xie Kun (謝鯤) Information on the activities and legacies of the descendants of Pei Qian [note 28] 23.674; biography of Pei Qian: 辛憲英傳 Xin Xianying Zhuan: Biography of Xin Xianying: Xiahou Zhan (夏侯湛) Biography of Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi [note 29] 25.699–700 陸芝銘 Lu Zhi Ming

  9. Chinese folk religion - Wikipedia

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    Ming yun (Chinese: 命運), the personal destiny or given condition of a being in his world, in which ming is "life" or "right", the given status of life, and yun defines both "circumstance" and "individual choice"; ming is given and influenced by the transcendent force Tian (Chinese: 天), that is the same as the "divine right" (tianming) of ...