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Tuancheng Yanwuting
Tuancheng, literally "Circular Wall", "Round Fort", or "Round City", may refer to: * Tuancheng Fortress The Tuancheng Fortress or Tuan Cheng Fortress (Chinese: t , s , p ''Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng'', lit. "Round Wall Fortress") is a historic 18th-century fortress located near the Fragrant Hills in the Haidian District of ... (Chinese: t , s , p ''Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng'') in Beijing, China * Tuancheng Island ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéngdǎo'') in Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing, China * Round City ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéng''), a former island in Beihai Park in Beijing, China * Tuancheng Township ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéngxiāng'') in Lushan County near Pindingshan, Henan, in China {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuancheng Fortress
The Tuancheng Fortress or Tuan Cheng Fortress (Chinese: t , s , p ''Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng'', lit. "Round Wall Fortress") is a historic 18th-century fortress located near the Fragrant Hills in the Haidian District of Beijing, China.''Oriental Architecture''.Tuancheng Fortress. Today, the fortress is a national museum and is also known as the Tuancheng Exhibition Hall. The fortress was built in the 14th year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign (1749 CE). Tuancheng was a castellated military training compound used by the Qing to train, inspect, and honor their troops.''China Culture''.Tuan Cheng Fortress". The site is especially well preserved. Today, the fortress frequently holds large-scale martial arts Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; combat sport, competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; a ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Characters
Traditional Chinese characters are one type of standard Chinese characters, Chinese character sets of the contemporary written Chinese. The traditional characters had taken shapes since the libian, clerical change and mostly remained in the same structure they took at the introduction of the regular script in the 2nd century. Over the following centuries, traditional characters were regarded as the standard form of printed Chinese characters or Classical Chinese, literary Chinese Adoption of Chinese literary culture, throughout the Sinosphere until the middle of the 20th century, before different script reforms initiated by Chinese family of scripts, countries using Chinese characters as a writing system. Traditional Chinese characters remain in common use in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside Southeast Asia; in addition, Hanja in Korean language#Writing system, Korean language remains virtually identical to traditional charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Characters
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore, as prescribed by the ''Table of General Standard Chinese Characters''. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People's Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s to encourage literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Singapore, while traditional Chinese characters still remain in common use in Hong Kong, Macau, ROC/Taiwan and Japan to a certain extent. Simplified Chinese characters may be referred to by their official name above or colloquially . In its broadest sense, the latter term refers to all characters that have undergone simplifications of character "structure" or "body", some of which have existed for millennia mainly in handwriting alongsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese form, to learners already familiar with the Latin alphabet. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, but pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written in the Latin script, and is also used in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The word ' () literally means "Han language" (i.e. Chinese language), while ' () means "spelled sounds". The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by a group of Chinese linguists including Zhou Youguang and was based on earlier forms of romanizations of Chinese. It was published by the Chinese Government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted pinyin as an international standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuancheng Island
Kunming Lake ( Chinese: , p ''Kūnmíng Hú'') is the central lake on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Together with the Longevity Hill, Kunming Lake forms the key landscape features of the Summer Palace gardens. With an area of , Kunming Lake covers approximately three-quarters of the Summer Palace grounds. It is quite shallow, with an average depth of only . History Kunming Lake is a manmade lake whose predecessors were called ''Wengshan (Jar Hill) Pond'' and ''Xihu Lake''. They were reservoirs which had been used as sources of water both for the city and irrigation of fields over a period of 3,500 years. Guo Shoujing, a famous astronomer and engineer in his time, developed it into a reservoir for the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in 1291. The conversion of the area into an imperial garden was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor with the work being carried out between 1750 and 1764. In the course of creating the gardens, the lake area was extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round City
Beihai Park () is a public park and former imperial garden located in the northwestern part of the Imperial City, Beijing. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to the Shichahai. The park has an area of more than , with a lake that covers more than half of the entire park. At the center of the park is an island called Jade Flower Island (), whose highest point is . ''Beihai'' literally means "Northern Sea". There are also corresponding Central (''Zhonghai'') and Southern (''Nanhai'') "Seas" elsewhere. These latter two are joined inside a complex of buildings known after them as Zhongnanhai; it is the home of China's paramount leaders. The Beihai Park, as with many of Chinese imperial gardens, was built to imitate renowned scenic spots and architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuancheng Township
Tuancheng, literally "Circular Wall", "Round Fort", or "Round City", may refer to: * Tuancheng Fortress The Tuancheng Fortress or Tuan Cheng Fortress (Chinese: t , s , p ''Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng'', lit. "Round Wall Fortress") is a historic 18th-century fortress located near the Fragrant Hills in the Haidian District of ... (Chinese: t , s , p ''Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng'') in Beijing, China * Tuancheng Island ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéngdǎo'') in Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing, China * Round City ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéng''), a former island in Beihai Park in Beijing, China * Tuancheng Township ( t , s , p ''Tuánchéngxiāng'') in Lushan County near Pindingshan, Henan, in China {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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