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Ping (surname)
Ping is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized P'ing in Wade–Giles. Ping is listed 95th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China in 2008. Notable people * Ping Dang ( 平當; died 4 AD), Han dynasty chancellor * Ping Yan ( 平晏; died 20 AD), son of Ping Dang, Xin dynasty government minister * Ping An (平安; died 1409), Ming dynasty general, adopted son of the Hongwu Emperor * Ping Hailan (平海澜; 1885–1960), educator, co-founder of Utopia University * Ping Fan ( 平凡; 1920–1999), Hong Kong actor * Ping Hsin-tao (平鑫濤; born 1927), Taiwanese publisher and filmmaker, husband of Chiung Yao * Ping Yali ( 平亚丽; born 1961), long jumper, first Chinese Paralympic gold medalist * Ping An (平安; born 1978), singer People from elsewhere with the surname * Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commi ... [...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] |
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] |
Jean Ping
Jean Ping (; born 24 November 1942 in Omboué)UN profile page "Jean Ping Ministre des Affaires étrangères, de la Coopération et de la Francophonie" ''Jeune Afrique'', 5 January 2003 ."Gabon: Biographie du nouveau président de la Commission de l’Union Africaine, Jean Ping" Gabonews, 2 February 2008 . is a |
Ping An (singer)
Ping'an ( zh, c=, l=peace, tranquility) may refer to: Places *Ping'an Avenue (), major through route in Beijing, China * Ping'an County (), in Qinghai Province, China *Ping'an Township (), name of several towns in China ** Ping'an, Lanzhou, in Honggu District, Lanzhou, Gansu ** Ping'an, Qing'an County, in Heilongjiang ** Ping'an, Baicheng, in Taobei District, Baicheng, Jilin ** Ping'an, Shulan, in Jilin ** Ping'an, Ping'an County, in Qinghai *Ping'an Town (), name of several townships in China ** Ping'an Town, Zhangjiachuan County, in Gansu ** Ping'an Township, Fengjie County, in Chongqing ** Ping'an Township, Pengshui County, in Chongqing ** Ping'an Township, Zhangjiachuan County, in Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, Tianshui, Gansu ** Ping'an Township, Gongcheng County, in Guilin **Ping'an Township, Jiamusi, in Jiao District, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang **Ping'an Township, Hure Banner, in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia **Ping'an Township, Dawa County, in Liaoning **Ping'an Township, Zhangwu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948 to become one of the largest international sporting events by the early 21st century. The Paralympics has grown from 400 athletes with a disability from 23 countries in Rome 1960, where they were proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio, to 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping Yali
Ping may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933 * Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom * Ping, a character in the webcomic ''Megatokyo'' * Ping, the disguised identity of Hua Mulan in the animated film ''Mulan'' * '' Ping the Elastic Man'', a comic strip character introduced in ''The Beano'' in 1938 * "The machine that goes ''Ping!''", a fictitious obstetric medical device featured in the film ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' * Mr. Ping, a character in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Professor Ping, a character in the film '' Barbarella'' * Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel ''Dragonkeeper'' Other uses in arts and entertainment * "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett * ''Ping!'', a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones * Ping.fm, a microblog social network * Ping, an ability in the trading card game ''Magic: The Gat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiung Yao
Chiung Yao or Qiong Yao (; born 20 April 1938) is the pen name of Chen Che, a Taiwanese writer and producer who is often regarded as the most popular romance novelist in the Chinese-speaking world. Her novels have been adapted into more than 100 films and TV dramas. Early life Chen Che and her twin brother were born in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chengdu, Sichuan, to parents who had fled Beijing which had fallen to Japanese troops in 1937. Both her father Chen Zhiping () and mother Yuan Xingshu () were highly educated (Yuan's cousins include Yuan Xiaoyuan, Yuan Jing and Yuan Xingpei). In 1942, the family moved to Chen Zhiping's hometown of Hengyang, Hunan to join Chen Che's grandfather Chen Moxi (). In 1944, following the fall of Hengyang, they survived an arduous journey to the wartime capital of Chongqing, during which they narrowly escaping death and rape several times. In 1949, her family moved to Taiwan, where Chen attended the Affiliated Experimental Elemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping Hsin-tao
Ping Hsin-tao or Ping Xintao (; 1927 – 23 May 2019) was a Taiwanese publisher and producer. He founded ''Crown Magazine'' and Crown Publishing in 1954, which launched the careers of Chiung Yao and San Mao, two of Taiwan's most famous authors. He married Chiung Yao and produced films and television series based on her popular romance novels. Early life Ping was born in Shanghai, Republic of China in 1927, with his ancestral home in Changshu, Jiangsu. Despite his interests in literature and art since childhood, he studied accounting at Utopia University at the request of his father. Career After graduating from university, Ping moved to Taiwan in 1949 when the Communists took over mainland China, and worked for Taiwan Fertilizer. In 1954, he founded ''Crown Magazine'' (皇冠雜誌) and Crown Publishing (皇冠出版社), later known as (皇冠文化). To help cover business expenses, he translated English-language novels into Chinese under the pen name Fei Li (費禮), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping Fan
Pingfang District () is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, forming part of the city's urban core. The least spacious of Harbin's county-level divisions, it borders the districts of Xiangfang to the north, Acheng to the east, Shuangcheng to the southwest, and Nangang to the west. History Pingfang was the headquarters of the Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 during the Japanese invasion of China and World War II. It had an airport, railway and dungeons. Most of Pingfang was burnt by Japanese officials to destroy evidence but the incinerator where the remains of victims were burnt remains and is still in use as part of a factory. Administrative divisions Pingfang District is divided into 9 subdistricts and 1 town. ;9 subdistricts * Xingjian (), Baoguo (), Lianmeng (), Youxie (), Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
