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Her mother Yuan Changying (袁昌英) was a translator, scholar and author who graduated from University of Edinburgh and University of Paris. Her father Yang Duanliu ( 杨端六 ) was an economist who graduated from Hunan Normal College , Hongwen Academy ( 宏文学院 ), Tokyo Zhengze English College ( 东京正则英语学校 ).
Due to a naming taboo the term "Yuanbao" (元寶) was phased out from cash coin inscriptions as the founder of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had the word "Yuan" (元) in his name. The trend of exclusively using the era names on currencies continued during the Qing dynasty, and all cash coins issued during this period were written in regular ...
Jing is an East Asian surname and given name of Chinese origin. [1] It is also the pinyin romanization of a number of less-common names including Jīng ( 京 ), Jīng ( 荆 ), Jìng ( t 經 , s 经 ), Jǐng ( 井 ), and Jǐng ( 景 ), etc.
The concept is expounded in the Chinese theoretical cosmological treatise called the Bagua and within the I Ching. [1] The Yin and Yang jing transform to create and replenish each other. The Yang jing circulates through the eight extraordinary vessels and transforms to become and replenish yin; in turn the marrow becomes blood, body fluid and ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 12 ]
Yan Zhengqing, compiler of the Yunhai jingyuan. The (c. 780) Yunhai jingyuan 韻海鏡源 Ocean of Rhymes, Mirror of Sources Chinese dictionary, which was compiled by the Tang dynasty official and calligrapher Yan Zhengqing (709–785), was the first phonologically arranged rime dictionary of words rather than characters.
Yuan Jing (1914 – 29 July 1999 [1]), born Yuan Xingzhuang, was a Chinese fiction writer, best known for her wartime novel Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with her then-husband Kong Jue), which was adapted into a successful 1951 film. [2] Yuan Jing came from a famous intellectual family. Her sister Yuan Xiaoyuan was China's first female ...
This Chinese name sanbao originally referred to the Daoist "Three Treasures" from the Daodejing, chapter 67: "pity", "frugality", and "refusal to be 'foremost of all things under heaven'". [1] It has subsequently also been used to refer to the jing, qi, and shen and to the Buddhist Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). This latter use is ...