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Of the two characters of the term, yóu (遊) literally means to "wander", "travel" or "move around", and xiá (俠) means someone with power who helps others in need. The term refers to the way these solitary men travelled the land using physical force or political influence to right the wrongs done to the common people by the powers that be, often judged by their personal codes of chivalry.
Official Chinese histories list only one reigning empress, Empress Wu of Tang. However, there have been numerous cases in Chinese history where a woman was the actual power behind the imperial throne. Empress Dowager Cixi, Regent of China considered de facto sovereign of China for 47 years during AD 1861–1908
Accepting the tradition that Chinese shamans were women (i.e., wu 巫 "shamaness" as opposed to xi 覡 "shaman"), Kagan believes: One of the main themes in Chinese history is the unsuccessful attempt by the male Confucian orthodoxy to strip women of their public and sacred powers and to limit them to a role of service ... Confucianists ...
The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. [a] The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested historicity.
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
According to the genealogy of Tibetan White Crane, "Ng Mui" is the Chinese name of the Tibetan monk Jikboloktoto, [9] who was the last generation of transmission before Sing Lung, who brought the art to Guangdong. This account is most different from the others, with a male Ng Mui, the absence of a Manchu menace to flee from and, given the ...
Era name Period of use Length of use Remark Prince Ming of Former Liang (r. 314–320 CE) Jianxing 建興: 317–320 CE 4 years Adopted the era name of the Emperor Min of Jin. Or Yong'an (永安). Prince Cheng of Former Liang (r. 320–324 CE) Jianxing 建興: 320–324 CE 5 years Adopted the era name of the Emperor Min of Jin. Or Yongyuan ...
Xuanwu or Xuandi (Chinese: 玄帝; pinyin: Xuándì), also known as Zhenwu (真武, lit. ' True Warrior ' or ' Truly Valiant ') or Zhenwudadi (真武大帝, lit. ' True Martial Great Emperor ' or ' Truly Valiant Great Emperor '), is a revered deity in Chinese religion, one of the higher-ranking deities in Taoism. He is revered as a powerful god ...