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The ancestral hall of the Xiao clan (蕭氏宗祠) in Yangxin County, Hubei. Xiao (/ ʃ aʊ /; [1] Chinese: 蕭) is a Chinese-language surname.In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is rendered as Hsiao, which is commonly used in Taiwan.
Xiao (flute) (Chinese: 箫), a Chinese end-blown flute; Xiao (rank) (Chinese: 校), a rank used for field officers in the Chinese military; Xiao County (Chinese: 萧县), in Anhui, China; Xiao Mountain (Chinese: 崤山), a range of mountains in Henan, China, or the surrounding Xiao region; Xiao River (Chinese: 潇水), a tributary of the Xiang ...
This xiao is an archaic name for "owl" (maotouying 貓頭鷹 "cat-head hawk" in modern usage), and the Yang clan in southwestern China were supposedly descended from monkeys. [26] The variant transcription xiaoyang 梟羊 "owl goat" names the legendary feifei 狒狒 "a man-eating monkey with long hair", which is the modern Chinese name for ...
A ceramic xiao flute player excavated from an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) tomb in Sichuan province Several dongxiao in the G-key. A Taiwanese xiao. The xiao (simplified Chinese: 箫; traditional Chinese: 簫; pinyin: xiāo; Wade–Giles: hsiao 1; Jyutping: siu1, pronounced [ɕi̯ɑ́ʊ̯]) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute.
The name New China has been frequently applied to China by the Chinese Communist Party as a positive political and social term contrasting pre-1949 China (the establishment of the PRC) and the new name of the socialist state, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó (in the older postal romanization, Chunghwa Jenmin Konghokuo), or the "People's ...
Xiao County or Xiaoxian (simplified Chinese: 萧县; traditional Chinese: 蕭縣; pinyin: Xiāo Xiàn) is a county in the north of Anhui Province, China, bordering the provinces of Jiangsu to the north and northeast and Henan to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Suzhou.
A Chinese social media platform has grown so popular in the US that it's this week's most downloaded iPhone app — and it's become the site of a sudden East-meets-West cultural exchange.
Xiao was born in 1972 to a schoolteacher from Feicheng, Shandong, China. [4] [5] Xiao attended Peking University at age 14 on a scholarship, [6] and he was a member of the Chinese Communist Party on campus. [4] He was opposed to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. [4] [5] He received a law degree from Peking University. [4]