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  2. Qianmen Subdistrict - Wikipedia

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    Qianmen Subdistrict (Chinese: 前门街道; pinyin: qiánmén jiēdào) is a subdistrict in the western portion of Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.In 2020, there are 9,081 permanent residents in this subdistrict.

  3. Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures - Wikipedia

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    The Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures, alternatively Ten Baidu Deities, was a humorous hoax from the interactive encyclopedia Baidu Baike which became a popular and widespread Internet meme in China in early 2009. These ten hoaxes are regarded by Western media as a response to online censorship in China of profanity, and considered as an example of citizens' clever circumvention of censorship ...

  4. Yiqiejing yinyi (Xuanying) - Wikipedia

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    The Yiqiejing yinyi (c. 649) is the oldest surviving Chinese dictionary of technical Buddhist terminology, and the archetype for later Chinese bilingual dictionaries.This specialized glossary was compiled by the Tang dynasty lexicographer and monk Xuanying (玄應), who was a translator for the famous pilgrim and Sanskritist monk Xuanzang.

  5. List of gods in the Investiture of the Gods - Wikipedia

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    The ruler of heaven, Haotian Shangdi, had ordered the twelve heavenly generals to submit to him, but the Jie Sect refused, and so a war broke out between the two sects. [3] At the same time, the Shang Dynasty was coming to an end, and the Zhou Dynasty was about to begin.

  6. Hundred Family Surnames - Wikipedia

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    2nd: Qian (錢) is the surname of the kings of Wuyue. 3rd: Sun (孫) is the surname of the queen Sun Taizhen of Wuyue king Qian Chu. 4th: Li (李) is the surname of the kings of Southern Tang. The next four, Zhou 周, Wu 吳, Zheng 鄭, and Wang 王, were the surnames of the other wives of Qian Chu, the last king of Wuyue. [8]

  7. Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Sānyuán - In the eleventh century in the Northern Song dynasty men who scored first in all three levels of the civil service examination were distinguished with the title "Sanyuan" (三元) meaning simply "three firsts." Immediately following the appearance of this term in Chinese literature, the motif of the three gibbons pursuing egrets ...

  8. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    Thousand Character Classic used as style dictionary, with each character given in different styles in each column – 1756 Japanese publication The Thousand Character Classic ( Chinese : 千字文 ; pinyin : Qiānzì wén ), also known as the Thousand Character Text , is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese ...

  9. Shuowen Jiezi - Wikipedia

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    The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.