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Fán (surname)
Fán (樊) is a Chinese family name. It was the name of a fief, located in present-day Jiyuan in Henan province. Granted by Zhong Shanfu by Zhou Xuang Wang. It is shared by around 2 million people, or 0.150% of the population, with the province with the largest population being Henan. Notable people *Fan Hui (樊麾), European Go champion *Fan Kuai (樊噲), Han dynasty military general and friend of Han dynasty founder Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) *Fan Rui (樊瑞), historical fictional character from the ''Water Margin'' * Louis Fan (convert), Catholic convert and first Chinese witness to modern Europe *Fan Mei-sheng, (樊梅生, born 1942) Hong Kong actor **Louis Fan (actor) (樊少皇), Hong Kong film actor, son of Fan Mei-sheng *Fan Gang (樊刚), economist *Ky Fan Ky Fan (樊𰋀, , September 19, 1914 – March 22, 2010) was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Fan was born in Hangzho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan (surname)
Fàn () is a Chinese family name. It is also one of the most common surnames in Vietnam, where it is written as Pham (范 - Phạm), and occurs in Korea as Beom (范, 범). It is the 46th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem in Chinese. Fàn (范) History The House of Fàn (Fàn Family or Fàn Clan) is a Chinese noble family that traces its origins to the model Emperor Yao, a legendary Chinese ruler who lived from 2358 – 2258 BCE. Emperor Yao is a 5th generation descendant of Emperor Huang (or Yellow Emperor), and the second son of Emperor Ku. Until the Zhou Dynasty (1122–256 BCE), the Fàns are associated with the Du Clan. It is said that Duke of Tangdu (Du Bo), a direct descendant of Emperor Yao, was murdered by the penultimate king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Xuan (周宣王, 827–781 BCE). The Duke's son, Xian Shu (隰叔, also called Du Xian or "Uncle Xian") fled to the state of Jin and was eventually appointed Minister of Justice (shishi 士師). X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiyuan
Jiyuan () is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Jiaozuo and Luoyang to the east and southwest respectively, as well as the province of Shanxi to the north. Administration The sub-prefecture-level city of Jiyuan administers 5 subdistrict and 11 towns. Jiyuan is named after the Ji river whose source is said to be a spring located on the west of the city. ;Subdistricts ;Towns History Jiyuan was a county belonging to Jiaozuo City in the past, then it was divided from the city. The former Ji River—one of the ancient "Four Rivers", alongside the Yangtze, Huai, and Yellow Rivers—originated around Jiyuan, which was the source of its name, Chinese for "Source of the Ji". (Today, the Ji has been entirely subsumed by the Yellow River, which shifted to the bed of the Ji during its massive 1852 flood.). According to the latest archaeological findings, as early as around 10,000 years ago, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Hui
Fan Hui (; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player. Becoming a professional Go player in 1996, Fan moved to France in 2000 and became the coach of the French national Go team in 2005. He was the winner of the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014 and 2015. As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional. He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship. AlphaGo vs Fan Hui In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5–0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap. Fan described the program as "very strong and stable, it seems like a wall. ... I know AlphaGo is a computer, but if no one told me, maybe I would think the player was a little strange, but a very strong player, a real person." After his defeat, Fan Hui was hired to advise the AlphaGo team and provided a "sanity check" on Go theory. He served as a judge for the AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol match and ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Kuai
Fan Kuai (242–189 BC) was a military general of the early Western Han dynasty. He was a prominent figure of the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC), a power struggle for supremacy over China between the Han dynasty's founder, Liu Bang (Emperor Gao), and his rival, Xiang Yu. Early life Fan Kuai was a close friend of Liu Bang and they were from the same hometown of Pei County (present-day Feng County, Jiangsu). In his early days, he was a butcher and specialised in preparing dog meat. He married Lü Xu, the younger sister of Liu Bang's wife Lü Zhi. Rebelling against the Qin dynasty Once, Liu Bang released the prisoners he was escorting and became an outlaw on Mount Mangdang (in present-day Yongcheng, Henan). Following the Dazexiang Uprising in 209 BC, the magistrate of Pei County also wanted to rebel as well so he heeded Xiao He and Cao Shen's advice, and sent Fan Kuai to Mount Mangdang to invite Liu Bang and his men back to help him. However, the magistrate changed his mind l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Rui
Fan Rui is a fictional character in ''Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Demon King of Chaos", he ranks 61st among the 108 Stars of Destiny and 25th among the 72 Earthly Fiends. Background Fan Rui, a native of Puzhou (濮州; around present-day Juancheng County, Shandong), is fearsome-looking with untidy hair. In battles he dons armour over a silk robe and fights with a sword called "Netherworld Demon King Sword" () and a mace called "Dark Chain-Swinging Spiked Mace" (). He can manipulate the weather and conjure strong winds with Taoist sorcery, which earns him the nickname "Demon King of Chaos". With Xiang Chong and Li Gun as his sidekicks, Fan Rui leads a 3,000-strong outlaw band at Mount Mangdang (芒碭山; north of present-day Yongcheng, Henan). Joining Liangshan The three chiefs of Mount Mangdang have been boasting about wiping out the Liangshan stronghold. Their brag angers Liangshan, which sends Shi Jin to su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Fan (convert)
Louis Fan (13 June 1682. – 28 February 1753.), born Fan Shouyi and also known as Luigi Fan, was the first known Chinese person to travel to Europe, return, and write an account of his travels. However, he was preceded by Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, Arcadio Huang, and Rabban Bar Sauma, all of whom died abroad instead of returning to China. Life Fan was born in Pingyao, Shanxi, in 1682. Little is known of his early life and family, but at some point he appears to have met the Piedmontese Jesuit missionary, Antonio Francesco Giuseppe Provana, who converted him to Roman Catholicism and baptised him as "Luigi" or "Louis". At the time, the different Catholic orders in China were engaged in a controversy over the legitimacy of Confucian or ancestral veneration. In January 1707, the papal legate Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon presented decree ' to the Kangxi Emperor, forbidding Catholic converts from participating in such rituals. The emperor ordered the Jesuits to assemble a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Mei-sheng
Fan Mei-sheng (; born 13 September 1942) also known as Fan Mui-sang, is a prolific Hong Kong Cantonese actor. Fan Mei-sheng started acting in movies from 1964; his first movie was ''The Story of Sue San''. He made his name in Shaw Brothers Studio productions, including the role of 'Black Whirlwind' in ''All Men Are Brothers.'' Through the 1970s and 1980s, he was often cast as the villain in many Hong Kong martial arts films and thrillers. In 1979, Fan replaced Simon Yuen (who died during filming) in '' The Magnificent Butcher''. That, as well as his role as an explosives man in ''The Postman Fights Back'', became one of his best known performances. He also acted in the Michael Cimino film, '' Year of the Dragon''; and in total has acted in one hundred films. In addition, he has directed one film, ''Amsterdam Connection'' in 1978, and produced another, ''Dark Side of Chinatown'' in 1989. Mei-sheng is the father of actor Louis Fan Siu-wong, with whom he appeared in the 1992 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Fan (actor)
Louis Fan Siu-wong (born 19 June 1973) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He is best known worldwide for his starring role as Ricky in '' Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky'' (1991) and as Jin Shanzhao in ''Ip Man'' (2008) and ''Ip Man 2'' (2010), as well as roles in numerous television series produced by TVB. Biography Fan is the son of Fan Mei-sheng, an actor contracted to the Shaw Brothers Studio. When he was 14, his father sent him to Xuzhou, China, to learn gymnastics and wushu. After completing his studies, Fan returned to the Hong Kong film industry, and starred in Stanley Tong's '' Stone Age Warriors'' (1991). In 1992, at the age of 18, Fan portrayed the titular character in '' Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky'', a Hong Kong film based on the manga ''Riki-Oh''. He claims that the director and producers of the film met him at the Hong Kong Airport upon arrival and immediately offered him the role. Being a young, up-and-coming actor, he took the role without knowing what it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Gang
Fan Gang (; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute (NERI). He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation. Biography Dr. Fan serves as an advisor to numerous organizations, including the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. He is a well-respected expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and China's regional integration within Asia. He is most renowned for addressing such topics as China's financial risk and financial systems reform, foreign exchange regimes and revaluation, China's economic reform, and globalization. Education Dr. Fan Gang graduated from the Economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ky Fan
Ky Fan (樊𰋀, , September 19, 1914 – March 22, 2010) was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Fan was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China. His father, named Fan Qi (樊琦, 1879—1947), served in the district courts of Jinhua and Wenzhou. Ky Fan went to Jinhua with his father when he was eight years old and studied at several middle schools in Zhejiang, including the Jinhua High School (currently Jinhua No.1 Middle School), Hangzhou Zongwen High School (currently Hangzhou No.10 Middle School), and Wenzhou High School. Fan obtained his secondary diploma from the Jinhua High School. Fan enrolled into Peking University Department of Mathematics in 1932, and received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 1936. Initially Fan wanted to study engineering, but eventually shifted to mathematics, largely because of the influence of his uncle Feng Zuxun ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zh Cj-gviw
or Zh may refer to: Language * Zh (digraph), a digraph in some languages, such as Albanian, Uyghur (Uyghur Latin script) and Chinese (pinyin) * Ž, a letter in the Latin script * Zhe (Cyrillic) (Ж), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet * Ezh (ʒ), a letter sometimes represented by the digraph "zh" ** Voiced postalveolar fricative, a sound represented by this letter in IPA (or the digraph "zh") * Chinese language ( ISO 639-1 code: zh), based on a native name of the Chinese language Zhōngwén and a Chinese adjective for Chinese, Zhōnghuá Places * Canton of Zürich, Switzerland * South Holland (''Zuid-Holland''), a province in the Netherlands * Zhuhai, China Other uses * Shenzhen Airlines (IATA airline designator) * ''Zero Hedge 0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity. In place-value notation such as the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, 0 also serves as a placeholder numerical digit, which works by multiplying digits to the left of 0 by the radix, usuall ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK Unified Ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It is the first block to be allocated to the Tertiary Ideographic Plane. The exotic characters Biáng and Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. It b ... are present in this block. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G block: References {{Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode blocks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
