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Duanmu
Duanmu is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese compound surname written in Chinese characters. It is romanized as Tuan-mu in Wade–Giles. Duanmu is listed 447th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in modern China. Notable people * Duanmu Ci or Zigong (520–456 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers * Duanmu Shu (:zh:端木叔, 端木叔), Warring States period descendant of Duanmu Ci, known for his wealth and philanthropy * Duan Fuchu or Duanmu Fuchu (:zh:端復初, 端復初; 1321–1373), Ming dynasty Minister of Justice * Duanmu Guohu (:zh:端木國瑚, 端木國瑚; 1773–1837), Qing dynasty official and scholar of the ''I Ching'' * Duanmu Jie (:zh:端木傑, 端木傑; 1897–1972), Republic of China general and Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China, Minister of Transportation * Joseph Twanmoh, Joseph K. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanmu Guohu
Duanmu is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese compound surname written in Chinese characters. It is romanized as Tuan-mu in Wade–Giles. Duanmu is listed 447th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in modern China. Notable people * Duanmu Ci or Zigong (520–456 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers * Duanmu Shu ( 端木叔), Warring States period descendant of Duanmu Ci, known for his wealth and philanthropy * Duan Fuchu or Duanmu Fuchu ( 端復初; 1321–1373), Ming dynasty Minister of Justice * Duanmu Guohu ( 端木國瑚; 1773–1837), Qing dynasty official and scholar of the ''I Ching'' * Duanmu Jie ( 端木傑; 1897–1972), Republic of China general and Minister of Transportation * Joseph K. Twanmoh ( 端木愷 , 1903–1987), Republic of China politician, president of Soochow University (Taiwan) * Duanmu Hongliang (1912–1996), novelist * Lucy Duanmu ( 端木露 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanmu Shu
Duanmu is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese compound surname written in Chinese characters. It is romanized as Tuan-mu in Wade–Giles. Duanmu is listed 447th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in modern China. Notable people * Duanmu Ci or Zigong (520–456 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers * Duanmu Shu ( 端木叔), Warring States period descendant of Duanmu Ci, known for his wealth and philanthropy * Duan Fuchu or Duanmu Fuchu ( 端復初; 1321–1373), Ming dynasty Minister of Justice * Duanmu Guohu ( 端木國瑚; 1773–1837), Qing dynasty official and scholar of the ''I Ching'' * Duanmu Jie ( 端木傑; 1897–1972), Republic of China general and Minister of Transportation * Joseph K. Twanmoh ( 端木愷 , 1903–1987), Republic of China politician, president of Soochow University (Taiwan) * Duanmu Hongliang (1912–1996), novelist * Lucy Duanmu ( 端木露 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanmu Jie
Duanmu is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese compound surname written in Chinese characters. It is romanized as Tuan-mu in Wade–Giles. Duanmu is listed 447th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in modern China. Notable people * Duanmu Ci or Zigong (520–456 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers * Duanmu Shu ( 端木叔), Warring States period descendant of Duanmu Ci, known for his wealth and philanthropy * Duan Fuchu or Duanmu Fuchu ( 端復初; 1321–1373), Ming dynasty Minister of Justice * Duanmu Guohu ( 端木國瑚; 1773–1837), Qing dynasty official and scholar of the ''I Ching'' * Duanmu Jie ( 端木傑; 1897–1972), Republic of China general and Minister of Transportation * Joseph K. Twanmoh ( 端木愷 , 1903–1987), Republic of China politician, president of Soochow University (Taiwan) * Duanmu Hongliang (1912–1996), novelist * Lucy Duanmu ( 端木露 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanmu Ci
Duanmu Ci (; 520–456 BC), also known by his courtesy name Zigong (), was a Chinese businessman, philosopher, and politician. He was one of the most important and loyal disciples of Confucius. Among Confucius' students, he was the second best at speech, after only Zai Yu. He was a prominent diplomat of the Spring and Autumn period who served as a high official in several states, and was a very wealthy businessman. Life Duanmu Ci (Zigong) was a native of the State of Wey, born in present day Xun County. He was 31 years younger than Confucius. Zigong had mental sharpness and ability, and appears in the ''Analects'' as one of the most eloquent speakers among Confucius' students. Confucius said, "From the time that I got Ci, scholars from a distance came daily resorting to me." According to Zhu Xi, Zigong was a merchant who later became wealthy through his own efforts, and developed a sense of moral self-composure through the course of his work. (His past profession as a merchant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duanmu Hongliang
Duanmu Hongliang (; 1912–1996), born Cao Jingping (), was a Chinese writer whose works were prominent during the Second Sino-Japanese War and for whom the land and environment were pivotal fictional elements. He was born in Changtu County, Liaoning and died in Beijing on October 5, 1996, at the age of 84. In Jehol-Chahar Sun Dianying's army was joined by Duanmu Hongliang. Duanmu attended Tsinghua University, where he studied and wrote fiction, but returned to his homeland of Liaoning in his post-university years. His fiction in both short stories and novels are characterized by the 'native soil' style, which heavily emphasizes the agrarian environment and heartland values of his homeland region, a style pioneered by Duanmu and other Modern Chinese authors such as Shen Congwen. In his novels dating from before the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, Duanmu evidences his ardour for traditional Chinese fiction tropes, including heroes that join Anti-Japanese volunteer armies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disciple Of Confucius
According to Sima Qian, Confucius said: "The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals. They were all scholars of extraordinary ability." It was traditionally believed that Confucius had three thousand students, but that only 72 mastered what he taught. The following is a list of students who have been identified as Confucius's followers. Very little is known of most of Confucius's students, but some of them are mentioned in the ''Analects of Confucius''. Many of their biographies are recorded in the Sima Qian's ''Shiji''. The Six Arts were practiced by the 72 disciples. Disciples Yan Hui (Ziyuan) Yan Hui (顏回) was a native of the Lu. His courtesy name was Ziyuan (子淵). He was Confucius's favorite student, and was younger than Confucius by 30 years. He became Confucius's disciple when he was very young. "After I got Hui," Confucius once said, "the disciples came closer to me." Confucius once traveled to Nan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Compound Surname
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one Chinese character, character. Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose. Some are originally from various tribes that lived in ancient China, while others were created by joining two one-character family names. Only a few of these names (e.g. Ouyang [歐陽/欧阳], Shangguan (surname), Shangguan [上官], Sima (Chinese surname), Sima [司馬/司马], Zhuge [諸葛/诸葛], Situ (surname), Situ [司徒], Xiahou [夏侯], Huangfu [皇甫], and Huyan [呼延]) can still be found quite commonly in modern times with Ouyang, Shangguan, Sima and Situ appearing most frequently. Many clans eventually took on a single-character surname for various reasons. Chinese surnames with more than two characters are mostly not of ethnic Chinese origin (e.g. Xianbei or Turkic languages, Turkic), and are becoming exceedingly ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern Standard language, standardized form of Mandarin Chinese that was first developed during the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republican Era (1912‒1949). It is designated as the official language of Languages of China, mainland China and a major language in the United Nations languages, United Nations, Languages of Singapore, Singapore, and Languages of Taiwan, Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore that mainly differ in their lexicon. Hong Kong written Chinese, used for formal written communication in Hong Kong and Macau, is a form of Standard Chinese that is read aloud with the Cantonese reading of characters. Like other Sinit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Family Surnames
The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279).K. S. Tom. 989(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom p. 12. University of Hawaii Press. . The book lists 507 surnames. Of these, 441 are single-character surnames and 66 are double-character surnames. About 800 names have been derived from the original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century ''Three Character Classic'', the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and the 6th-century ''Thousand Character Classic'' came to be known as ''San Bai Qian'' (Three, Hundred, Thousand), from the first character in their titles. They served as instructional books for children, becoming the almost universal introductory literary texts for students (almost exclusively boys) from elite b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve Philosophers
The Twelve Philosophers or Wise Ones (Chinese: , ''Shí'èr Zhé'') are 12 eminent philosophers in the Chinese Confucian tradition. They are traditionally accounted a kind of sainthood and their spirit tablets are prominently placed in Confucian temples, six upon the east and six upon the west side of the Hall of the Great Completion (''Dacheng Dian''). Legge, James. The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, & the Doctrine of the Mean'. 1893. Twelve Philosophers are Min Sun (Ziqian), Ran Yong (Zhonggong), Duanmu Ci (Zigong), Zhong You (Zilu), Bu Shang (Zixia), You Ruo (Ziruo), Zai Yu (Ziwo), Ran Geng (Boniu), Ran Qiu (Ziyou), Yan Yan (Ziyou), Zhuansun Shi (Zizhang) all disciples of Confucius and Zhu Xi, who established Neo-Confucianism during the Song dynasty."Confucius Temple (Kong Miao): (4Central Hall of Great Accomplishment - Da Cheng Dian. Sacrifices to the philosophers were first offered in the 6th year of the Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty, AD 720. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Transportation And Communications Of The Republic Of China
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC; ) is a cabinet-level governmental body of the Republic of China (Taiwan), in charge of all policy and regulation of transportation and communications networks and administration of all transportation and communications operations and enterprises in Taiwan. Introduction In Taiwan, transportation and communications operations comprise four categories: communications, transportation, meteorology, and tourism. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is responsible for making policy, formulating laws and regulations, and overseeing operations in the area of transportation and communications. Communications operations encompass postal services and telecommunications. Postal services are managed by the Chunghwa Post. Regarding telecommunications, the MOTC is responsible for the overall planning of communications resources, assisting and promoting the communications industry, and fostering universal access to communicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soochow University (Taiwan)
Soochow University () is a private university in Taipei, Taiwan. Soochow University maintains a church and a Methodist minister in residence, though it may be considered a secular institution. Soochow University is one of the most prestigious private universities in Taiwan. The university is noted for studies in comparative law and accounting. History The original Soochow University was founded by Methodists in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty in 1900 as a merger of three institutions: the Buffington Institute and the Kung Hang School in the city of Soochow (now spelled Suzhou), in Jiangsu Province, and the Anglo-Chinese College in Shanghai. After the Chinese Civil War, members of the Soochow Alumni Association who fled to Taiwan established a new institution there in 1951. A law school was opened in 1954, and a full university was certified in 1971. Meanwhile in Suzhou, the original university merged with the Southern Jiangsu College of Culture and Education and the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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