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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 kings of Qin claimed descent from the Lady Xiu, "the granddaughter" of "a remote descendant" of the Emperor Zhuanxu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor.Similarly, in the next generation, Lady Hua was said to be descended from Shaodian, [1] the legendary figure who is sometimes the father and sometimes the foster father of the Yellow and Flame Emperors.
Yue varieties are not totally mutually intelligible with one another. [3] Yue Chinese is the most widely spoken local language in Guangdong. Its native speakers constitute around a half (47%) of its population. The other half is equally divided between Hakka and Min languages, mostly Teochew, but also Haklau and Leizhounese. [24]
Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty dispatched military forces against the Baiyue in 214 BC. After Qin Shi Huang defeated the state of Chu in 223 BC, the Qin dynasty in 221 BC undertook a military campaign against the Baiyue in Lingnan to conquer the territories of what is now southern China and possibly as far south as northern Vietnam. [3]
Qin-Lian (lower left), among other Yue and Pinghua groups in Guangxi and Guangdong The Qin–Lian language ( Hamlim Jijin or Hamlim Jujin ; Chinese : 欽廉语言 ; from the names of Qinzhou and Lianzhou ) is a southern branch of Yue Chinese spoken in the coastal part of Guangxi , including 3 main cities : Beihai , Qinzhou, Fangchenggang , and ...
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Chatting in the Village (June 1998, Lin Sheng Xiang, Chung Shing Tat, Chung Shing Fu, Chan Kwun Yu) Touring Beautiful Island – Kuan Tsu Music Pit 98' Come and See the Land Tour (August 1998, Lin Sheng Xiang, Zhong Cheng-Da, Zhong Cheng-Hu, Guanyu Chen)