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Chinese musician playing the yueqin (right), 1874. The word yueqin is made of two characters, yuè (月 "moon") and qín (琴 "stringed instrument, zither"). Its name in Korean (wolgeum), Japanese (gekkin) and Vietnamese (nguyệt cầm) mean the same thing, and are Sinoxenic words, meaning they were borrowed from Chinese, but pronounced in the local way.
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Yue was born 1914 in Lushan County, Sichuan as Yue Yizhong (Chinese: 樂以忠; pinyin: Yuè Yǐzhōng; Wade–Giles: Yüeh I-chung). [5] His family was Baptist Christian, having been evangelized by H. J. Openshaw around 1900, an American Baptist missionary stationed at Ya'an (Yachow-fu) at the time.
Qin-Lian (lower left), among other Yue and Pinghua groups in Guangxi and Guangdong The Qin–Lian language ( Hamlim Jijin or Hamlim Jujin ; Chinese : 欽廉语言 ; from the names of Qinzhou and Lianzhou ) is a southern branch of Yue Chinese spoken in the coastal part of Guangxi , including 3 main cities : Beihai , Qinzhou, Fangchenggang , and ...
Most qin schools and societies are based in China, but during the twentieth century many overseas societies began to form. Although qin study was initially confined to China in ancient times, countries like Japan also have their own qin traditions via import from China, but are extremely small in scale. The Tokyo Qin Society was recently ...
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The North American Guqin Association (Chinese: 北美琴社; often abbreviated to NAGA) is a guqin society based in the State of California, in the United States, which serves guqin players on the West Coast of the United States.
Shi Yue (died 384) was a military general of Former Qin during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Initially starting out as an envoy to Former Yan , he helped the Qin army in capturing Xiangyang and in quelling the rebellion of Fu Jian's cousin, Fu Luo .