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Leng (surname)
Leng is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character and Vietnamese surname written Lãnh. It is listed 377th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 246th most common surname in China, shared by 300,000 people. Notable people * Leng Bao ( 冷苞; 3rd century AD), Eastern Han dynasty general * Yangqi Fanghui ( 杨岐方会; 992 – ca. 1049), lay surname Leng, founder of the Yangqi Sect of Chan Buddhism * Leng Mei (冷枚, 17th–18th century), Qing dynasty painter * Leng Yu ( 冷遹; 1882–1959), Vice Governor of Jiangsu province * Leng Jiaji ( 冷家骥; 1899–1957), businessman and politician * Leng Xin ( 冷欣; 1900–1987), Lieutenant General of the Republic of China * Leng Pengfei ( 冷鹏飞; born 1933), PLA war hero and major general * Leng Kuan ( 冷宽; born 1938), Vice Admiral of the PLA Navy * Leng Rong ( 冷溶; born 1953), Vice President of the Chinese Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese language, Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the late Shang dynasty. Chinese bronze inscriptions, Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty. The latter part of the Zhou period saw a flowering of literature, including Four Books and Five Classics, classical works such as the ''Analects'', the ''Mencius (book), Mencius'', and the ''Zuo zhuan''. These works served as models for Literary Chinese (or Classical Chinese), which remained the written standard until the early twentieth century, thus preserving the vocabulary and grammar of late Old Chinese. Old Chinese was written with several early forms of Chinese characters, including Oracle bone script, Oracle Bone, Chinese bronze inscriptions, Bronze, and Seal scripts. Throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
