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In the second year of the age of Daxing of Emperor Yuan of Jin, Nanhai governor Bao Jing revived the temple for his daughter Bao Gu to cultivate Tao while providing medical services to the locals and renamed the temple as "Yuegang Yuan" (越岗院). During the Tang dynasty, it was converted into a Buddhist temple and renamed "Wuxing Temple ...
Legend has it that during Yuan Shikai's rule from 1912 to 1916, he disliked the name yuanxiao because it sounded identical to "remove Yuan" (Chinese: 袁消; pinyin: yuán xiāo); thus he gave orders to change the name to tangyuan. [7] [8] This new moniker directly translates to 'round balls in soup' or 'round dumplings in soup'.
The Kaiyuan Tongbao (traditional Chinese: 開元通寶; simplified Chinese: 开元通宝; pinyin: kāiyuán tōng bǎo; lit. 'Circulating treasure from the inauguration of a new epoch'), sometimes romanised as Kai Yuan Tong Bao or using the archaic Wade-Giles spelling K'ai Yuan T'ung Pao, [3] was a Tang dynasty cash coin that was produced from 621 under the reign of Emperor Gaozu and remained ...
Chinese migrants brought their hometown sweet soups to Hong Kong, such as red bean soup from Guangzhou and tang yuan from Shanghai. Newcomers sold tong sui in newly opened street side food stalls and Chinese tea house. During the 1980s to 1990s, Hong Kong's economy developed rapidly and living standards rose.
Xanadu / Shangdu (上都; Shàngdū; 'Upper Capital'), located northwest of present-day Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia, China, was the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty. After the fall of the Yuan dynasty, it briefly became the capital of the Northern Yuan dynasty between 1368 and 1369. It was destroyed in 1369.
Emperor Gaozong, the Tang emperor who received the envoy ordered the construction of the Huaisheng Mosque in Guangzhou, the first mosque built in the country, in memory of Muhammad. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] Hui legends seem to confuse the 651 visit of Waḳḳāṣ with the introduction of Islam as early as 616–617 by earlier visits of the four companions ...
Tang (618–907) Wu Zhou (690–705) ... Yuan (1271–1368) Ming (1368–1644) ... Air pollution in Guangzhou reaches annual mean of 48 PM2.5 and 72 PM10, more than ...
The Tang dynasty and inspection circuits (道 dào) in 742, according to The Cambridge History of China. Tang dynasty territory and its changes throughout history. The Tang dynasty of China administered territory using a hierarchical system of three descending divisions: circuits (dào 道), prefectures (zhōu 州), and counties (xiàn 縣).