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Gu (Chinese: 蛊) or jincan (Chinese: 金蠶) was a venom-based poison associated with cultures of south China, particularly Nanyue.The traditional preparation of gu poison involved sealing several venomous creatures (e.g., centipede, snake, scorpion) inside a closed container, where they devoured one another and allegedly concentrated their toxins into a single survivor, whose body would be ...
Gu (simplified Chinese: 顾; traditional Chinese: 顧; pinyin: Gù) is a Chinese family name.Some places such as South Korea, and early immigrants from Wu-speaking region in China usually romanize this family name as Koo or Ku.
Gǔ (Chinese: 古) is a Chinese surname meaning 'old' or 'ancient'. 1958 old photograph of Chinese-Indonesian of Gu (古) surname, first until third generations Notable people
Gǔ (谷) is a Chinese surname. According to a 2013 study it was 158th-most common surname in China, shared by 990,000 people or 0.075% of the population, with the province having the most people with the surname being Henan. [1] The literal meaning of the surname is "valley" or "gorge". [2]
It is the Japanese derivative of the Chinese gu magic. It is said to have been widely used in ancient China. It is not clear for how long it has been used, but scholars of Chinese characters such as Shizuka Shirakawa, who advocates the importance of magic in ancient times, have found traces of poison in the oracle bone script of the Yin and ...
Because his Persian surname Qudsan pronounces similar to Chinese Guo, Al-Qudsan Al-Dhaghan Nam's grandsons began to change their surname to Guo in order to assimilate with local Han Chinese. It was politically expedient to claim they were descendants of Guo Ziyi in order to be better accommodated by local people and later the Ming dynasty ...
The bangu (Chinese: 板鼓; pinyin: bǎngǔ), often simply gu (Chinese: 鼓; pinyin: gǔ), is a Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera. Striking the drum in different places produces different sounds.
Gu (god), a spirit that appears in several African religions; Gu (poison), a venom-based poison associated with cultures of south China; Gu (vessel), a type of ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel; Gujarati language, ISO 639-1 language code gu; gu, several characters in the Sumerian language; Gu (kana), or ku; GU, a prefix for several types of ...