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Women in wars within or against ancient China (includes Vietnamese women fighting against China). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Chinese female regents (1 C, 6 P) ... Women in ancient Chinese warfare (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Ancient Chinese women"
Name Birth Became Queen Ceased to be Queen Death Spouse Tai Si: c. 12th century BC 1099 BC 1050 BC c. 11th century BC King Wen: Queen Yi Jiang (邑姜) : 1046 BC 1043 BC King Wu
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 ...
Xun Guan (303–?) was a Chinese military general of the Jin dynasty (266–420). She was an ancient Chinese heroine who famously led a group of soldiers into battle at the age of thirteen. She is said to have broken through enemy lines to call for reinforcements and prevent the city of Wancheng (宛城; in present-day Nanyang, Henan) from falling.
The strict division of the sexes, apparent in the policy that "men plow, women weave" (Chinese: 男耕女織), partitioned male and female histories as early as the Zhou dynasty, with the Rites of Zhou (written at the end of the Warring States Period), even stipulating that women be educated specifically in "women's rites" (Chinese: 陰禮 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Chinese warriors" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 ...
This book follows the lièzhuàn (列傳 "arrayed biographies") biographical format established by the Chinese historian Sima Qian.The word liènǚ (列女 "famous women in history") is sometimes understood as liènǚ (烈女 "women martyrs"), which Neo-Confucianists used to mean a "woman who commits suicide after her husband's death rather than remarry; [a] woman who dies defending her honor."