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Fang (Chinese: 方) is the 67th most prevalent Chinese surname. In Chinese, Fāng ( 方 ) means "square" or "four-sided". Fāng ( 方 ) is pronounced Fong in Cantonese , Hong or Png or Pwee in some Min Nan dialects and Png or Pung in Teochew .
Fang Fang (Chinese: 方方), pen name of Wang Fang (汪芳; born 11 May 1955), is a Chinese writer, known for her literary depictions of the working poor. She won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Born in Nanjing, she attended Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese. In 1975, she began to write poetry and in 1982, her first novel was published.
Fang (Chinese: 方), was a Chinese scientist and alchemist who lived during the first century B.C during the Han dynasty. [1] She was the earliest recorded woman alchemist in China. She is only known under her family name Fang.
Fang Lizhi (Chinese: 方励之; pinyin: Fāng Lìzhī; February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012) was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. [1]
The word paifang (Chinese: 牌坊; pinyin: páifāng) was originally a collective term for the top two levels of administrative division and subdivisions of ancient Chinese cities. The largest division within a city in ancient China was a fang (坊; fāng), equivalent to a current day ward. [1]
Fang Shimin (Chinese: 方是民; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Png Sī-bîn), better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi (Chinese: 方舟子; pinyin: Fāng Zhōuzǐ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Png Chiu-chú; born 28 September 1967), is a Chinese popular science writer who is primarily known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. [3]
Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) tomb guardian figure identified as a Fangxiangshi. The fangxiangshi (Chinese: 方相氏) was a Chinese ritual exorcist, the meaning of whose name is obscure but has been translated as "one who sees in all (four) directions", "he who scrutinizes for evil in many directions", and "one who orients unwanted spirits in the direction to which they belong".
Fang's father, Fang Su (方肅), was a jinshi and Hangzhou-based magistrate who founded the Fang Clan of White Cloud (白雲方氏) in White Cloud Village, Tonglu, Zhejiang. [3] According to the tenth-century Jianjie lu ( 鑑誡錄 ) or Records of Warnings , [ 4 ] Fang Gan was the fourteenth son of his family.