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When Song thereafter asked to retire, Xu Zhigao gave him a garden as a gift. [9] In 936, after Xu Zhigao assumed the greater title as generalissimo, he made Xu Jingtong deputy generalissimo, and made Song and Xu Jie deputies to Xu Jingtong. Song, however, continued to take the stand of opposing the coming imperial transition.
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.
The most common Chinese surnames were compiled in the Song dynasty work Hundred Family Surnames, which lists over 400 names. The colloquial expressions lǎobǎixìng (老百姓; lit. "old hundred surnames") and bǎixìng (百 姓, lit. "hundred surnames") are used in Chinese to mean "ordinary folks", "the people", or "commoners".
Fearing retaliation in the future, Yan Song hosted a banquet for Xu Jie where his family prostrated themselves before Xu while Yan himself toasted and begged Xu to care for his family if he died some day. Nonetheless, Xu Jie eventually plotted Yan Song's downfall, causing the Yan family to be exiled and Yan's son Yan Shifan to be executed. [4]
Literal meaning: Song of the Uncharactered Stele / Song of the Uncharactered Stele: The Story of Wu Zetian: Hanyu Pinyin: Wú Zì Bēi Gē / Wú Zì Bēi Gē: Wǔ Zétiān Zhuàn: Genre: Historical drama: Written by: Chen Yanmin Zhang Wenhua Li Yijia: Directed by: Chen Yanmin: Starring: Siqin Gaowa Wen Zhengrong Zhang Tielin Fang Xu Liu Wei Liu ...
Song Xu (Chinese: 宋旭; pinyin: Sòng Xù; Wade–Giles: Sung Hsü, born 1525), was a Chinese landscape painter. His courtesy name was Chuyang (初炀) and pen name was Shimen (石门, "Stone Gate"). Song eventually became a Buddhist priest and adopted various religious names.
Xu Huihui (徐慧慧, known professionally as Jade Xu) (born 1986), Chinese martial arts actress and multiple World Wushu Champion; Xu Jie (Southern Tang) (Chinese: 徐玠; pinyin: Xú Jiè, 868–943), Southern Tang politician; Xu Jie (Ming dynasty) (Chinese: 徐階; pinyin: Xú Jiē, 1503–1583), Ming dynasty politician
Meanwhile, officials Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng work with the Prince to counter the Yan faction’s harmful "rice-to-mulberry" policy, which causes famine and unrest in Zhejiang. Local uprisings, led by farmers like Qi Dazhu, escalate as corrupt officials profit from silk trade deals, while Governor Hu Zongxian secretly opposes the ...