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Lan (surname 兰)
Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. As of 2008, it is the 154th most common surname in China, shared by 840,000 people. Lan 蘭 is not listed in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. The people of the Xiongnu Lan (tribe) assimilated into Han Chinese culture and were given the surname Lan. Notable people surnamed Lan This is a Chinese name, meaning the surname is stated the given name, though Chinese persons living in Western countries will often put their surname after their given name. * Consort Lan ( 兰淑仪; 4th century), mother of Murong Chui, founding emperor of Later Yan * Lan Han (蘭汗; died 398), Later Yan official who briefly usurped the throne * Princess Lan (蘭王妃; 4th–5th century), wife of Murong Sheng, emperor of Later Yan * Lan Qin (蘭欽), Liang dynasty general * Lan Jing ( 蘭京; died 549), son of Lan Qin, assassinated Ga ... [...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] |
Lan Han
Lan Han (; died August 15, 398) was an official and a consort kin of the Xianbei-led Chinese Later Yan dynasty, who killed the emperor Murong Bao (Emperor Huimin) in 398 and briefly took over the regime before being killed by Murong Bao's son Murong Sheng (Emperor Zhaowu). Lan Han was an uncle of Murong Bao's father Murong Chui (Emperor Wucheng), the founding emperor of Later Yan, as a younger brother of his mother Consort Lan (although some references indicate that he was her cousin, not her brother), and in 384 he assisted Murong Chui's son Murong Nong in starting a rebellion against Former Qin to assist Murong Chui's main rebellion. During Murong Chui's reign he was sparsely mentioned in history. In 387 he was one of the commanders in a Later Yan campaign against Jin. In 391 he commanded a force against a chieftain of the Xianbei Helan (賀蘭) Tribe, Helan Rangan (賀蘭染干). During Murong Chui's reign, he married one of his daughters to Murong Sheng, then the Duke of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lan Dixi
Lan or LAN may also refer to: Science and technology * Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics * Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space * Łan, unit of measurement in Poland * Local area network, a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings * Lan blood group system, a human blood group Places * Lancashire (Chapman code), England * Lancaster railway station (National Rail station code), England * Capital Region International Airport (IATA airport code), Lansing, Michigan, US * Lan County, Shanxi, China * Łan, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland * Lan (river), Belarus * Llan (placename), a placename element known in Breton as ''lan'' Airlines * LAN Airlines, former name of LATAM Chile, an airline in Chile, with a stake in other airlines: ** LAN Peru, an airline based in Peru ** LAN Ecuador, an airline based in Quito, Ecuador ** L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanmaoa
''Lanmaoa'' is a fungal genus in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed by Chinese mycologists Nian-Kai Zeng and Zhu L. Yang in 2015 to contain several species formerly classified in the genus ''Boletus'' ('' L. carminipes'', '' L. flavorubra'', '' L. pseudosensibilis''), as well as the newly described Asian boletes '' L. angustispora'' and '' L. asiatica''. The erection of this genus follows recent molecular studies that outlined a new phylogenetic framework for the family Boletaceae The Boletaceae are a family of mushroom-forming fungi, primarily characterised by small pores on the spore-bearing hymenial surface (at the underside of the mushroom), instead of gills as are found in most agarics. Nearly as widely distributed .... Zeng and Yang named the genus after Chinese naturalist (1397-1476). References External links * Boletaceae Boletales genera {{Boletales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han Chinese, Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump state, rump regimes ruled by remnants of the House of Zhu, Ming imperial family—collectively called the Southern Ming—survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the naval history of China, navy's dockyards in Nanjin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lan Mao (poet)
''3000 Whys of Blue Cat'' () is the first large-scale Chinese animated series in mainland China with an emphasis on science. The series is produced by "Hunan Sunchime Happy Culture Company". The show remains one of the longest-running children's cartoon series in the world. It is most commonly referred to as "Lan Mao", or "Blue Cat". Background * 1992: Wang Hong was inspired by "One Hundred Thousand Whys" and started creating Blue Cat in a small workshop on Xiangya Road, Changsha City, Hunan Province. * 1993: Wang Hong established Oriental Cartoon Production Co., Ltd. in Changsha City. * 1997: Wang Hong and Sun Wenhua, the chairman of Hunan Sanchen Company, established the joint venture of Sanchen Film Library. The cartoon "New 100,000 Whys" was produced. * 1998: Sanchen Film Library began to adapt this cartoon into "Naughty Blue Cat 3000 Questions". This is when the concept of the Blue Cat was officially introduced. * June 1999: Wang Hong gave "Naughty Blue Cat 3000 Questions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Qi
Qi, known as the Northern Qi (), Later Qi (後齊) or Gao Qi (高齊) in historiography, was a Chinese imperial dynasty and one of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties era. It ruled the eastern part of northern China from 550 to 577. The dynasty was founded by Gao Yang (Emperor Wenxuan), and was eventually conquered by the Northern Zhou dynasty in 577. History Northern Qi was the successor state of the Chinese Xianbei state of Eastern Wei and was founded by Emperor Wenxuan. Emperor Wenxuan had an Han father of largely Xianbei culture, Gao Huan, and a Xianbei mother, Lou Zhaojun. As Eastern Wei's powerful minister Gao Huan was succeeded by his sons Gao Cheng and Gao Yang, who took the throne from Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei in 550 and established Northern Qi as Emperor Wenxuan. Northern Qi was the strongest state out of the three main states (the other two being Northern Zhou state and Chen Dynasty) in China when Chen was established. Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gao Cheng
Gao Cheng (; 521–549), courtesy name Zihui (子惠), formally Prince Wenxiang of Bohai (勃海文襄王), later further posthumously honored by Northern Qi as Emperor Wenxiang (文襄皇帝) with the temple name Shizong (世宗), was the paramount official of the Xianbei-led Chinese Eastern Wei dynasty, a branch successor state of the Northern Wei. He was Gao Huan's oldest son, and because his father wielded actual power during Emperor Xiaojing's reign, Gao Cheng also received increasingly great authority, and after his father's death in 547 took over the reign of the state. He was considered capable but frivolous and arrogant, as well as lacking in sexual discretion. In 549, he was assassinated by his servant Lan Jing (蘭京), and his younger brother Gao Yang took over the control over the Eastern Wei regime. Background Gao Cheng was born in 521, when his father Gao Huan was still a courier of documents between the Northern Wei capital Luoyang and the old capital Pingche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lan Jing
''Lanjing'' (蓝鲸) is a self-propelled, deep water crane vessel, owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the national oil exploration company of China, through its Hong Kong-Hong Kong Stock Exchange, listed subsidiary CNOOC Limited. Built in 2012, it is one of the six large crane barges owned by COOEC and CNOOC, namely ''HYSY201'', , ''Lanjing'', ''Blue Xinjiang'', ''Binhai 109'', ''HYSY286'', ''HYSY289'' and ''HYSY291''. History ''Lanjing'' was built as MT ''Sanko Pioneer'', a VLCC. In 1997, she was purchased by a new owner and her name was changed to MT ''Torres Spirit''. In 2005, she was sold and renamed MT ''Zhen Hua 15'' by her new owner. Subsequently, she was purchased by CNOOC and COOEC, and converted into a large crane vessel. Her conversion and outfitting took nearly two years and was completed in July 2008. Vessel particulars Equipped with a large 7,500 tonnes lifting capacity Crane (machine), crane, an additional 4,000 tonnes crane and an auxiliary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang Dynasty
The Liang dynasty (), alternatively known as the Southern Liang () in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. It was preceded by the Southern Qi dynasty and succeeded by the Chen dynasty. The rump state of Western Liang existed until it was conquered in 587 by the Sui dynasty. Rule During the Liang dynasty, in 547 a Persian embassy paid tribute to the Liang, amber was recorded as originating from Persia by the ''Book of Liang''. In 548, Hou Jing Prince of Henan started a rebellion with Xiao Zhengde the Prince of Linhe, nephew and a former heir of Emperor Wu of Liang and installed Xiao Zhengde as emperor. In 549, Hou sacked Jiankang, deposed and killed Xiao Zhengde, seized the power and put Emperor Wu effectively under house arrest. He dismissed the armies opposed to him in the name of Emperor Wu. In 550 Emperor Wu died, Hou created Emperor Wu's third son Crown Prince G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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