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The Nine Tripod Cauldrons (Chinese: 九鼎; pinyin: Jiǔ Dǐng) were a collection of ding in ancient China that were viewed as symbols of the authority given to the ruler by the Mandate of Heaven. According to the legend, they were cast by Yu the Great of the Xia dynasty .
Soon, her father remarries Jeanne Prosperi (referred to as "Niang" in most of the story, an old fashioned way for "mother" in Mandarin Chinese), a beautiful half-French woman. She regards his first five children, especially Adeline, with distaste and cruelty while favouring her younger son, Franklin, and daughter, Susan, both born soon after ...
Unfortunately, Ye Xian's father dies from a local plague, and a new chieftain is appointed to take his place, as Wu had no sons. With her family reduced to poverty, Ye Xian is forced to become a lowly servant and work for her unloving and cruel stepmother, Jin, and spoiled and lazy younger half-sister Jun-Li.
The Tripods is a series of young adult science fiction novels by John Christopher. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity is enslaved by "Tripods" – gigantic three-legged walking machines piloted by an alien race later identified as the "Masters".
Her father was James S. C. Chao, who founded Foremost Group in 1964. [3] Her mother was Ruth Mulan Chu Chao. [4] She was the youngest of six sisters, one of whom is Elaine Chao, former US Secretary of Transportation. [5] Her parents were born in mainland China, but fled to Taiwan in 1949 due to the Chinese Civil War. Her father came to the ...
The tripod's inside features 19 lines collectively containing 291 Chinese characters. [4] Most is the King's Speech. The first speech is a historical overview in which he provides a moral rationale for the fall of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Western Zhou.
Betty Stam grew up in Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, where her father, Charles Scott, was a missionary. [3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was also a student at Moody. Betty returned to China in 1931.
Empress Gi was born in Haengju (행주, 幸州; modern Goyang), Goryeo to a lower-ranked aristocratic family of bureaucrats. [1] Her father was Gi Ja-oh.Lady Gi's maternal great-grandmother was Princess Consort Im of the Jangheung Im clan, one of the prominent clans in Goryeo Kingdom.