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During the Red Turban rebellion organised by the White Lotus society; many of its leaders proclaimed their own kingdoms and empires that ruled over different regions of China, the most successful of these was Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming dynasty which would unify China. Though the majority of these countries were short-lived some did produce their own ...
In caves near the Northern Air Temple, Zaheer and the Red Lotus administer mercury poison [1] [2] to Korra seeking to let her enter the Avatar State for the last time in an effort to keep herself alive before killing her so that the Avatar reincarnation cycle will be broken. Jinora, using her spiritual projection abilities, overhears the plan ...
In Sichuan, the Red Turban commander, Ming Yuzhen, refused to acknowledge Chen Youliang when he usurped Xu Shouhui. Ming declared his own Red Turban kingdom of Ming Xia. He seemed to have governed competently, having recruited scholars and heeding the advice of a Confucian official named Liu Zhen, but failed in an attempt to take Yunnan from ...
A Chi-Chi's source confirmed to PEOPLE that they will open two restaurants in Minnesota in the new year Chi-Chi’s Announces Plans to Reopen Restaurants 20 Years After the Chain Closed All ...
Hongmen seal, 19th century Amoy [1] Hongmen seal, 19th century Guangdong. The Tiandihui, the Heaven and Earth Society, also called Hongmen (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect in the vein of the Ming loyalist White Lotus Sect, the Tiandihui's ancestral organization. [2]
The Bowuzhi author Zhang Hua (232-300) was a Western Jin dynasty (266-316) scholar, poet, and protoscientist.His biography in the (644) Book of Jin depicts Zhang Hua as a fangshi "master of esoterica" who was especially skilled at numerological arts, and a voracious collector of books, especially ones "strange, secret, and rarely seen". [3]
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel: Ssu Ta Ch'i-Shu. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691067082. Free Internet Archive HERE. A seminal exploration of "literati novels". Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin (or, Men of the Marshes), Journey to the West, and Golden Lotus (or Plum in a Golden Vase).
Ming Hua Theological College in Hong Kong Minghua (ship) (明华), a hotel ship in Shekou, Shenzhen, China (the former MS Ancerville ) Chi Minghua (池明华, born 1962), Chinese soccer coach