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Brushtalk (simplified Chinese: 笔谈; traditional Chinese: 筆談; pinyin: bǐtán) was first used in China as a way to engage in "silent conversations". [2]Beginning from the Sui dynasty, the scholars from China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam could use their mastery of Classical Chinese (Chinese: 文言文; pinyin: wényánwén; Japanese: 漢文 kanbun; Korean: 한문; Hanja: 漢文; RR: hanmun ...
Jiǎn (traditional Chinese: 簡; simplified Chinese: 简) is a Han surname meaning "bamboo slip" or "simple". It was the 382th surname listed on the Hundred Family Surnames . There are more people in Taiwan with this surname than any single province in Mainland China .
In 1901, Korea deployed police in Jiandao, and this continued until 1906. [7] The Korean Government sent Yi Beom-yun, who was not part of the Imperial Korean Army, as a Jiandao observer to invade Jiandao in 1903. [8] In Jiandao, Yi established Sa-po dae, which was a militia consisting of both a righteous army, and Imperial
The House of Yi, also called the Yi dynasty (also transcribed as the Lee dynasty), was the royal family of the Joseon dynasty and later the imperial family of the Korean Empire, descended from the Joseon founder Yi Seong-gye. All of his descendants are members of the Jeonju Yi clan.
Korean clans are groups of Korean people that share the same paternal ancestor. They are indicated by the combination of a bongwan (Korean: 본관; lit. place of origin) and a family name. [1] Korean clans distinguish clans that happen to share the same family name. The bongwan identifies descent groups by geographic place of origin. [2]
In the Yale romanization of Korean, 許 is Heo (허). In Vietnamese, the character 許 is converted to Hứa. The Hoa people overseas Chinese of Vietnam with the surname 許 / 许 may have it spelled as Hái or Hy when immigrating to the English-speaking World, particularly the United States. Other spellings include Hee and Hu.
When Yi Pang-wŏn, the son of Yi Sŏng-gye, asked Chŏng to support the founding of a new dynasty through a poem, Chŏng answered with a poem of his own reaffirming his loyalty to the falling Goryeo dynasty. Just as he suspected, he was assassinated the same night on April 4, 1392. Chŏng's death poem is the most famous in Korean history.
The following three examples show that the meaning of the idiom can be totally different by only changing one character. 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 千 (qiān) 秋 (qiū) : "One day, a thousand autumns." Meaning: implies rapid changes; one day equals a thousand years; 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 千 (qiān) 里 (lǐ) : "One day, a thousand miles."