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The patriarch sometimes had to go to the clan tomb to report the ancestors when there was an urgent matter. The modern standard Chinese word for "surname" is 姓氏 ; xíngshì . In the Western Zhou dynasty, xing (姓) and shi (氏) were two separate surnames, with the larger xing indicating shared aristocratic descent and shi being a branch ...
This is a family tree for the Zhou dynasty, descendants of Duke Wu of Zhou who overthrew the last Shang ruler, thereby establishing the dynasty. Ruling from 1046 BC to 256 BC, it is notable as the longest dynasty in Chinese history, although the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty only lasted during the Western Zhou.
His accession established Zhou primogeniture. A largely peaceful reign [71] Zhao 昭: Ji Xia 姬瑕: 995–977 (17–18 years) 977–957 (19–20 years) Son of Kang Lost the Zhou–Chu War, during which he died. His reign marked the Zhou's gradual decline [72] Mu 穆: Ji Man 姬滿: 976–922 (53–54 years) 956–918 (39–40 years) Son of Zhao
Fa Mulan (speaking voice by Ming-Na Wen, singing voice provided by Lea Salonga, portrayed by Liu Yifei in the live-action film) is a young woman who, in place of her father Fa Zhou, enlists in the army as a man named Fa Ping. Despite the doubts of others, she defeats Shan Yu and his army and saves China, with the Emperor of China rewarding her ...
The name "Wen" now means "the Cultured" or "the Civilizing" and was made into an official royal name by King Wu in honor of his father. He was the only noble to bear the posthumous name "Wen" for almost the entire first half of the Zhou dynasty, despite its common usage as an epithet of eulogy, suggesting a special privilege. [8]: 15
The Zhou dynasty not only preceded the full unification of early China under the Qin dynasty, the first empire whose realm would subsequently be considered to extend broadly enough to be national in the context of the territorial concept of China, the Zhouli, Rites of Zhou were subsequently canonized by Confucius among his Confucian Chinese ...
The Zhou dynasty grew out of a predynastic polity with its own existing power structure, primarily organized as a set of culturally affiliated kinship groups. The defining characteristics of a noble were their ancestral temple surname (姓; xíng), their lineage line within that ancestral surname, and seniority within that lineage line.
Immortal Zhenyuan (鎮元大仙) is the patriarch of all earthbound immortals based in Wuzhuang Temple (五莊觀) on Longevity Mountain (萬壽山) in West Continent (西牛賀洲). In his temple, there is a special ginseng tree that produces only 30 fruits every 10,000 years. The fruit is shaped like an infant less than three days old; anyone ...