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Chinese musician playing the yueqin (right), 1874. The word yueqin is made of two characters, yuè (月 "moon") and qín (琴 "stringed instrument, zither"). Its name in Korean (wolgeum) Japanese (gekkin) mean the same thing, and are Sinoxenic words, meaning they were borrowed from Chinese, but pronounced in the local way.
The emperor ordered his armies of five hundred thousand men to advance southward in the five columns to conquer and annex the Yue territories into the Qin empire. [4] [5] By 214 BC, Guangdong, Guangxi, and parts of northern Vietnam were subjugated and annexed into the Qin Empire. However, Chinese domination was brief and the collapse of the Qin ...
Bi Wenjun as Yue Qin [3] [4] Baron Chen as Murong Xuanlie, [4] Crown Prince of Dayan; Zhao Xiaotang as Yin Luomei [3] [4] Huang Riying as Zi Gu [3] Shao Weitong as Qing Yan; Jiang Kai as Emperor Yan [4] Xu Hao as Shu Mo; Gao Junhai as Zhang Yin; Zhao Yating as A Dai; Hong Jiantao as Mei Dashan, Mei Lin's father; Yang Mingna as Empress De Jia
Shi Yue (died 384) was a military general of Former Qin during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Initially starting out as an envoy to Former Yan , he helped the Qin army in capturing Xiangyang and in quelling the rebellion of Fu Jian's cousin, Fu Luo .
Yue Yiqin (or Yue Yi-chin, Chinese: 樂以琴; pinyin: Yuè Yǐqín; Wade–Giles: Yüeh I-ch'in; November 11, 1914 – December 3, 1937) was a flying ace of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. [1] [2] [3] He achieved five confirmed aerial victories until his death in combat during the Battle of Nanking.
The Jin dynasty or Jin Empire, sometimes distinguished as the Sima Jin or the Two Jins, was an imperial dynasty in China that existed from 266 to 420. It was founded by Sima Yan, eldest son of Sima Zhao, who had previously been declared the King of Jin.
While the bulk of the Qin forces were fighting against Xiang Yu at the Battle of Julu, Liu Bang led his forces into the Guanzhong region, the heartland of the Qin dynasty, facing minimal resistance along the way. In 206 BCE, the last Qin emperor, Ziying, surrendered the capital Xianyang to Liu Bang, bringing an end to the Qin dynasty. Liu Bang ...
The Imperial Music Bureau, first established in the Qin dynasty (221–207 BC), was greatly expanded under the emperor Han Wudi (140–87 BC) and charged with supervising court music and military music and determining what folk music would be officially recognized. In subsequent dynasties, the development of Chinese music was influenced by the ...