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Qing (other)
The Qing dynasty () was a dynasty of China that existed from 1636 to 1912. Qing may also refer to: * ''Qing'' (concept) (, "feelings"), a concept in Chinese philosophy * ''Qing'' (color) (), a Chinese color term, inclusive of shades of green, blue, and black. * ''Qing'' (), a Chinese abbreviation for Qinghai Province, China * ''Qing'' (), a Chinese abbreviation for Qingdao in Shandong Province, China * Qing County (), in Hebei, China * ''Qing'' (), an old Chinese unit of area equal to 100 ''mu'', whose value has varied over time and place * ''Qing'' (), the Chinese name for a sounding stone A sounding stone or ''qing'' (磬) (rarely 鸣石 or 响石) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped. The set of ''qing'' is called bianqing. The shape of such stones was often quoted as description for the reverent ritual pose. ..., a musical instrument See also * Ching (surname) * Hing (surname) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaking ethnic group who unified other Jurchen tribes to form a new "Manchu" ethnic identity. The dynasty was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Manchuria (modern-day Northeast China and Outer Manchuria). It seized control of Beijing in 1644, then later expanded its rule over the whole of China proper and Taiwan, and finally expanded into Inner Asia. The dynasty lasted until 1912 when it was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution. In orthodox Chinese historiography, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The multiethnic Qing dynasty lasted for almost three centuries and assembled the territorial base for modern China. It was the largest imperial dynasty in the history of China and in 1790 the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing (concept)
In Chinese philosophy, ''qing'' () is a concept translated variously as "emotion", "feeling", "sentiment", or "passion". In Confucianism In Confucian thought, ''qing'' is interpreted as the behavioural quality of a person given their context, which may be bettered through the cultivation of '' ren'' (humaneness), '' li'' (ritual propriety), and '' yi'' (righteousness) to build '' de'', or virtuous moral character. Confucian scholars, such as Han Yu, traditionally identified seven basic emotions ( ), named in the Book of Rites as happiness (), anger (), grief (), fear (), love (), hate (), and desire (). Neo-Confucians understand ''qing'' as products of environmental circumstances affecting ''xing'', or innate human nature. This interpretation of ''qing'' as an emotional concept, especially as connected to ''xing'', arose after the Warring States period. In Daoism Daoist teaching aims to free a person from the passions (''qing''), as articulated by Zhuang Zhou: “ he sageh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing (color)
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaking ethnic group who unified other Jurchen tribes to form a new "Manchu" ethnic identity. The dynasty was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Manchuria (modern-day Northeast China and Outer Manchuria). It seized control of Beijing in 1644, then later expanded its rule over the whole of China proper and Taiwan, and finally expanded into Inner Asia. The dynasty lasted until 1912 when it was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution. In orthodox Chinese historiography, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The multiethnic Qing dynasty lasted for almost three centuries and assembled the territorial base for modern China. It was the largest imperial dynasty in the history of China and in 1790 the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qinghai Province
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest. Qinghai province was established in 1928 during the period of the Republic of China, and until 1949 was ruled by Chinese Muslim warlords known as the Ma clique. The Chinese name "Qinghai" is after Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in China. The lake is known as Tso ngon in Tibetan, and as Kokonor Lake in English, derived from the Mongol Oirat name for Qinghai Lake. Both Tso ngon and Kokonor are names found in historic documents to describe the region.Gangchen Khishong, 2001. ''Tibet and Manchu: An Assessment of Tibet-Manchu Relations in Five Phases of De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingdao
Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) Initiative that connects Asia with Europe. It has the highest GDP of any city in the province. Administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over seven districts and three county-level cities (Jiaozhou, Pingdu, Laixi). As of the 2020 census, Qingdao built-up (or metro) area made of the 7 urban Districts (Shinan, Shibei, Huangdao, Laoshan, Licang, Chengyang and Jimo) was home to 7,172,451 inhabitants. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. Qingdao is a major seaport and naval base, as well as a commercial and financial center. It is home to electronics mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing County
Qing County or Qingxian (), or Qingxian, is a county in the east of Hebei province, China, bordering Tianjin to the north. It is under the administration of Cangzhou prefecture-level city, with a population of 390,000 residing in an area of . G2 Beijing–Shanghai Expressway, which is concurrent with G3 Beijing–Taipei Expressway in the province, as well as China National Highway 104, pass through the county. Administrative divisions The county administers 6 towns and 4 townships. Towns: *Qingzhou Qingzhou () Wade–Giles: Tsing-chou, sometimes written as Ching-chow-fu, formerly Yidu County (Yitu) (), is a county-level city, which is located in the west of the prefecture-level city of Weifang, in the central part of Shandong Province, Chin ... (), Jinniu (), Xinxing (), Liuhe (), Mumendian (), Machang () Townships: * Zhouguantun Township (), Caosi Township (), Pangu Township (), Chenzui Township () Climate References External links County-level division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Units Of Measurement
Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chinese measures use hexadecimal (base-16). Local applications have varied, but the Chinese dynasties usually proclaimed standard measurements and recorded their predecessor's systems in Chinese dynastic histories, their histories. In the present day, the People's Republic of China maintains some customary units based upon the market units but standardized to round values in the metric system, for example the common ''jin'' or catty (unit), catty of exactly 500gram (unit), g. The Chinese name for most metric units is based on that of the closest traditional unit; when confusion might arise, the word "market" (, ''shì'') is used to specify the traditional unit and "common" or "public" (, ''gōng'') is used for the metric value. Taiwan, like Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sounding Stone
A sounding stone or ''qing'' (磬) (rarely 鸣石 or 响石) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped. The set of ''qing'' is called bianqing. The shape of such stones was often quoted as description for the reverent ritual pose.The Development of the Concept of Music in China's Early History F.A Kuttner - Asian Music, 1969 " With regard to the sounding stone, the above remark emphasizes the clear, pure tone of lithophones made of limestone, jade, or nephrite, as opposed to other melody instruments (especially bells) with their vague, unclear, or unreliable pitches. .." Important information on ''qing'' nomenclature is contained in the Erya dictionary: the large sounding stone was called ''xiāo'' 毊, and a solo performance on ''qing'', jiǎn 寋. However, the mentioned names do not have much currency in the classical literature. ''Qing'' is mentioned in the Analects as one of the instruments played by Confucius. In the Han dynasty treatises on music, its soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ching (surname)
Ching is a Chinese and English surname. Origins As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation): * Jing (various characters and tones), spelled Ching in the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese, which was common up to the 20th century and remains widespread in Taiwan: ** () ** (） ** () ** () ** () * Qing (various characters and tones), spelled Ch'ing in Wade–Giles: ** ( zh, labels=no, c= ) ** Qíng ( zh, links=no, c= ) ** ( zh, links=no, t=, s=庆, first=t) * Chéng (), spelled Ching based on its Cantonese pronunciation * Zhuāng (), spelled Ching based on its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects Ching is also a Cornish surname, from the Cornish dialect form of the surname Chinn, which originated as a nickname for people with distinctive chins. Statistics In Ontario, Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
