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The New Book of Tang, generally translated as the "New History of the Tang" or "New Tang History", is a work of official history covering the Tang dynasty in ten volumes and 225 chapters. The work was compiled by a team of scholars of the Song dynasty , led by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi .
Agribank or formally the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnamese: Ngân hàng Nông nghiệp và Phát triển Nông thôn Việt Nam) is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam by total under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
In Chinese mythology, Shennong taught humans the use of the plow, aspects of basic agriculture, and the use of cannabis.Possibly influenced by the Yan Emperor mythos or the use of slash-and-burn agriculture, [4] Shennong was a god of burning wind.
Tang Shu Shuen (Chinese: 唐書璇; pinyin: Táng Shūxuán; born 1941) is a former Hong Kong film director. Though her film career was brief, she was a trailblazer for socially critical art cinema in Hong Kong's populist film industry, as well as its first noted woman director. Tang was born in Yunnan province, China.
The idea of a bencao (pharmacopoeia) that would copy and expand on Tao Hongjing's Bencao jing jizhu [] was first mooted in 657 by court counsellor Su Jing [] (蘇敬). [9] [2] The project was eventually approved by Emperor Gaozong, following which a team of some twenty-two officials and physicians, [10] including Xu Jingzong, Lü Cai, Li Chunfeng, Kong Zhiyue [], and Xu Xiaochong []. [11]
Han Shu: Book of Han: Hua Qiao (華嶠) Hua Qiao was a grandson of Hua Xin. Records the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Also known as Later Book of Han (漢後書). Not to be confused with the Book of Han by Ban Biao and his children. 6.177 漢書注 Han Shu Zhu: Annotated Book of Han: Ban Gu and Ban Zhao; Ying Shao, annotation
Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i (April 24, 1562 – November 8, 1633), also known by his baptismal name Paul or Paul Siu, was a Chinese agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, politician, and writer during the late Ming dynasty. [6]