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Gaoyang County
Gaoyang County () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding and has an area of . The county seat is in Gaoyang Town (). Administrative divisions There are 4 towns and 5 townships under the county's administration. Towns: * Gaoyang (), Pangkou (), Xiyan (), Xingjianan () Townships: * Jinzhuang Township (), Pukou Township (), Xiaowangguozhuang Township (), Longhua Township (), Pangjiazhuang Township () Climate Notable inhabitants * Liang Tsai-Ping, guzheng player *Qi Xin, author and member of the Chinese Communist Party, wife of Chinese communist revolutionary Xi Zhongxun and mother of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counties Of The People's Republic Of China
Counties ( zh, t=縣, s=县, hp=Xiàn), formally county-level divisions, are found in the Administrative divisions of China#County level, third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces of China, Provinces and Autonomous regions of China, Autonomous regions and the second level in Direct-controlled municipality#People's Republic of China, municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous county, autonomous counties, county-level city, county-level cities, Banners of Inner Mongolia, banners, Banners of Inner Mongolia#Autonomous banner, autonomous banners and District (China)#City districts, City districts. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. The term ''xian'' is sometimes translated as "district" or "prefecture" when put in the context of History of China, Chinese history. History ''Xian'' have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaoyang County
Gaoyang County () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding and has an area of . The county seat is in Gaoyang Town (). Administrative divisions There are 4 towns and 5 townships under the county's administration. Towns: * Gaoyang (), Pangkou (), Xiyan (), Xingjianan () Townships: * Jinzhuang Township (), Pukou Township (), Xiaowangguozhuang Township (), Longhua Township (), Pangjiazhuang Township () Climate Notable inhabitants * Liang Tsai-Ping, guzheng player *Qi Xin, author and member of the Chinese Communist Party, wife of Chinese communist revolutionary Xi Zhongxun and mother of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also served as the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi province, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming governor and party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. Following dismissal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Zhongxun
Xi Zhongxun (15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a subsequent political official in the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership. The contributions he made to the Chinese communist revolution and the development of the People's Republic, from the founding of Communist guerrilla bases in northwestern China in the 1930s to initiation of economic liberalization in southern China in the 1980s, are numerous and broad. He was known for political moderation and for the setbacks he endured in his career. He was imprisoned and purged several times. His second son is the current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping. Early life and education Xi was born on 15 October 1913, to a land-owning family, in rural Fuping County, Shaanxi. He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in May 1926 and took part in student demonstrations in the spring of 1928, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qi Xin
Qi Xin (; born November 3, 1926) is a Chinese author and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who wrote various articles on her husband, Chinese communist revolutionary Xi Zhongxun. She is the mother of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, also known as the paramount leader. Early life Qi Xin was born on November 3, 1926. Her father, Qi Houzhi (), was the head of the law bureau in the Nationalist government's Third Army during the Northern Expedition. In 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Qi was attending a girl's middle school in Beiping, modern Beijing. After Beiping fell to the Japanese army, her elder sister Yun () took her to Tunliu County, Shanxi, when Yun join the Eighth Route Army. Yun sent her younger sibling to the schoolgirl's team of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University, which had set up a branch school in Tunliu. Later in the winter of 1939, Qi transferred to the female cadre's branch of the Cadr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guzheng
The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from ''Paulownia'' wood. Other components are often made from other woods for structural or decorative reasons. Guzheng players often wear fingerpick made from materials such as plastic, resin, tortoiseshell, or ivory on one or both hands. Strings There are nylon steel strings, steel strings, silk strings, etc., depending on the genre. Now, the most common guzheng is 21 strings guzheng. The high-pitched strings of the guzheng are close to the player, and the low-pitched strings are on the opposite side. The strings' order from the inside to the outside is 1 to 21. The guzheng is ancestral to several other Asian zithers such as the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, Mongolian yatga, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi, and the Kazakhstan jetigen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang Tsai-Ping
Liang Tsai-Ping (, born Gaoyang County (), Hebei, China, February 23, 1910 or 1911; died Taipei, Taiwan, June 28, 2000) was a master of the '' guzheng'', a Chinese traditional zither. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important players and scholars of the instrument. He also played and taught the ''guqin'' (7-string zither). Early career At age 14, Liang moved to Beijing, where he began his studies with Professors Ying-mei Shih (Shi Yingmei) and Tze-you Wei (Wei Ziyou). After printing his first work, ''Ni Cheng Pu'' ''(Ni Zheng Pu)'', a guzheng teaching manual in 1938, he brought his instruments and conferred with several masters and companies. He graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, majoring in applied science. He moved to Taiwan in 1949, where he lived for the rest of his life. He worked in the Ministry of Commerce while continuing his musical activities. Liang had much to do with the revival of the ''guzheng'' in the 20th century, helping to establish the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longhua Township
Longhua may refer to: Places in the People's Republic of China * Longhua County (隆化县), in Hebei * Longhua District, Shenzhen (龙华区), in Shenzhen, Guangdong * Longhua District, Haikou (龙华区), in Haikou, Hainan * Longhua Temple (龙华寺), a temple in Shanghai * Longhua Subdistrict (other) (龙华街道) Towns in the People's Republic of China Lónghuà (隆化镇): * Longhua, Longhua County, seat of Longhua County, Hebei * Longhua, Yicheng County, Shanxi Lónghuá (龙华镇): * Longhua, Chongqing, in Jiangjin District, Chongqing * Longhua, Xianyou County, Fujian * Longhua, Boluo County, Guangdong * Longhua, Longmen County, Guangdong * Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong * Longhua, Jing County, Hebei * Longhua Town, Shanghai, in Xuhui District Xuhui District is a core urban district of Shanghai. It has a land area of and a population of 982,200 as of 2008. The Xuhui District is named after its namesake, the hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pukou Township
Pukou District (), is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China, lying northwest across the Yangtze River from downtown Nanjing. The district was formerly the southern terminus of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway; railcars had to be ferried across the river until it was bridged in 1968. Administrative subdivisions Pukou has administrative jurisdiction to 9 subdistricts: * Defunct - Shiqiao Town () merged with Shiqiao Town () & Wujiang Town () merged into Qiaolin Subdistrict Geography Pukou District is located at the northwestern of Nanjing city, between the Yangtze River and Chu River. It is separated from the main part of the city by the Yangtze River with hundred miles of mountains and forests. It has an area of 902 square kilometers with a population of 480 thousand. Climate Pukou District has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classificatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
