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Cheng usually is only seen to be applied to the last name due to the meaning and nature of the chosen 'Cheng', if it was '成' where it means 'to become' then it is suited best as a last name as it symbolises a foreseeing connotation and would make more sense at the end of a name, but also in Chinese name layout, the last name is usually said ...
Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan [1] (Chinese: 姚念媛; pinyin: Yáo Niànyuán). [2] She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai .
Wendy Cheng has several blogs, including her untitled main blog (usually known as xiaxue.blogspot.com), and several private blogs. Although she writes in the English language, she selected her pseudonym Xiaxue (下雪, pronounced something like sh'ya-shweh), which means "snowing" in Mandarin Chinese, because it "had that tinge of mysterious, beautiful girl thing about it". [4]
The White Deer Spirit (白鹿精) and his adoptive daughter, the White-Faced Vixen Spirit (白面狐狸精), are a white deer and a vixen respectively. Disguising himself as a middle-aged man, the Deer transforms the Vixen into a beautiful young maiden and gets the ruler of the Kingdom of Biqiu ( 比丘國 ) to marry her while he becomes the ...
Cheng Kun (成昆; Chéng Kūn), nicknamed "Primordial Chaos Thunderbolt Hand" (混元霹靂手), is a scheming villain who had a secret affair with Yang Dingtian's wife. Yang, who was practising the Heaven and Earth Great Shift when he discovered the affair, died in anger when the inner energy flow in his body was disrupted due to the distraction.
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Cheng Yen or Shih Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師, 釋證嚴; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng 4 Yen 2 Fa 3-shih 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chèng-giâm Hoat-su; [a] born Chin-Yun Wong; the 24th of the third Lunar month, 4 May 1937) [1] [2] is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun , teacher, and philanthropist.
She is director of the Cheng Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at the Shih Hsin University. [6] She is the granddaughter of Cheng Shewo, a journalist, publisher, and educator of the Republic of China, who founded the Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, [7] and the niece of Taiwanese sociologist Lucie Cheng. [8]