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  2. Yi Xing - Wikipedia

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    Yi Xing also owed much to the scholarly followers of Ma Jun, who had employed horizontal jack-wheels and other mechanical toys worked by waterwheels. [4] The Daoist Li Lan was an expert at working with water clocks, creating steelyard balances for weighing water that was used in the tank of the clepsydra, [4] providing more inspiration for Yi Xing.

  3. Chinese star maps - Wikipedia

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    Tang Dynasty Armillary Sphere (唐代渾儀Tang Dai Hun Xi) (黃道遊儀Huang dao you xi) Yi Xing and Liang Lingzan: 683–727 AD: based on Han Dynasty Celestial Globe, recalibrated locations of 150 stars, determined that stars are moving - Tang Dynasty Indian Horoscope Chart (梵天火羅九曜) Yi Xing: 683–727 AD: simple diagrams of the ...

  4. Tang Yixin - Wikipedia

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    Tang began her career when she was picked by Zheng Xiaolong to play the role of Concubine Qi in Empresses in the Palace (2012). [2]In 2013, her role as Luo Cheng (played by Hans Zhang)'s lover in Heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties received positive reviews from the audience, who said that her character was "refreshing" in a serious historical drama.

  5. Xing (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Xing (Chinese: 邢) is a Chinese surname.There are two hypothesized sources for the extant catalogue of surnames: 1. According to the Yuanhe Xing Zuan, Xing is originated from Ji (), the royal family of Zhou dynasty in China.

  6. Xin (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Xin (辛) family originated from: Xia Hou (夏后) family in the Xia dynasty period; Shen (莘) family in the Xia dynasty period; Zang (藏) and Tujia (土家) the Chinese minority

  7. Teng (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Teng (Chinese: 滕; pinyin: Téng; Wade–Giles: T'eng 2) is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng (Imperial clan descendants) in the Western Zhou dynasty. [1] It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [2] It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in ...

  8. Erya - Wikipedia

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    The first attempts to date the different parts of the Erya separately began when the Tang scholar Lu Deming (556–627) suggested that the Duke of Zhou only compiled the Shigu (Chinese: 釋詁; pinyin: Shìgǔ) chapter (1), while the rest of the text dated from later. [5]

  9. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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    An escapement mechanism for clockworks was later developed by the Buddhist monk, court astronomer, mathematician and engineer Yi Xing (683–727) of the Tang dynasty (618–907) for his water-powered celestial globe in the tradition of the Han dynasty polymath and inventor Zhang Heng (78–139), and could be found in later Chinese clockworks ...