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Wen (surname 闻)
Wén () is a Chinese surname. It is related to the name Wenren (Wenjen). 闻 (Wén), meaning "fame" or "to listen", shares its origin with 文 (Wén) and usually romanised in a similar way. It may be romanised as ''Man'' in Cantonese, ''Wen'', ''Boon'', ''Vun'', or ''Voon'' in Taiwan, ''Văn'' in Vietnamese. 286th most common name, shared by 210,700 people or 0.016% of the population, the province with the most being Anhui. Yuan Yida (袁义达), Qiu Jiaru, 邱家儒. 中国四百大姓. Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Notable people * Wen Yiduo, politician and nationalist poet assassinated by the KMT * Wen Yumei (闻玉梅; born 1934) a Chinese virologist and microbiologist and the current director of the Institute of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Fudan University. * Wen Zhong (Investiture of the Gods) References {{surname Individual Chinese surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhui
Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei and Henan to the west, and Shandong to the north. With a population of 61 million, Anhui is the 9th most populous province in China. It is the 22nd largest Chinese province based on area, and the 12th most densely populated region of all 34 Chinese provincial regions. Anhui's population is mostly composed of Han Chinese. Languages spoken within the province include Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Wu Chinese, Wu, Huizhou Chinese, Hui, Gan Chinese, Gan and small portion of Central Plains Mandarin. The name "Anhui" derives from the names of two cities: Anqing and Huizhou, Anhui, Huizhou (now Huangshan City). The abbreviation for Anhui is , corresponding to the historical , and is also used to refer to the Wan River and Mount Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Yida
Yuan Yida () is a researcher from the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a leading researcherPeople's Daily OnlineChina has 4100 meaningful surnames January 13, 2006. on Chinese surnames in mainland China, and has been working on statistical studies of surname distribution in the People's Republic of China over the past two decades. He led the research on an updated, 2006 version of the Hundred Family Surnames, a text of popular surnames originally published in the Song dynasty, encompassing 4100 surnames from 296 million individuals in 1110 counties. Yuan Yida was born in 1947 in Shanghai, tracing his ancestry to Fenghua, Zhejiang. He spent much of his youth in Ningbo, before moving to Beijing and attending Beijing University. Between 1988 and 1992 he conducted research at Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiu Jiaru
Qiu may refer to: *Qiū (surname), Chinese surnames written 丘, 邱, or 秋 * Qiú (surname), Chinese surnames written 仇 or 裘 * Qiu County, in Hebei, China *Kǒng Qiū (), better known as Confucius Confucius (; pinyin: ; ; ), born Kong Qiu (), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the phil ... *''Qiu!'', a 2005 album by the ambient post-rock band Windsor Airlift {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo (; 24 November 189915 July 1946) was a Chinese poet and scholar known for his nationalistic poetry. Wen was assassinated by the Kuomintang in 1946. Life Wen Yiduo was born Wén Jiāhuá () on 24 November 1899 in what is now Xishui County in Hubei Province. After receiving a traditional Chinese Confucian education he went on to continue studying at Tsinghua University. In 1922, he traveled to the United States to study fine arts and literature at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that his first collection of poetry, ''Hongzhu'' (, "Red Candle"), was published. In 1925, he traveled back to China and took a university teaching post. In 1928, his second collection, ''Sishui'' (, "Dead Water"), was published. In the same year he joined the Crescent Moon Society and wrote essays on poetry. He also began to publish the results of his classical Chinese literature research. At the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he and many other intellectua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Yumei
Wen Yumei (; born 16 January 1934) is a Chinese virologist and microbiologist and the current director of the Institute of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Fudan University. She is also the director of Scientific Committee of Open Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health. Biography Wen was born in Beijing on January 16, 1934, with her ancestral home is in Xishui County, Hubei Province. Her father Wen Yichuan (; 1896-1939) was an alumnus of the University of Chicago and medical scientist. Her mother Gui Zhiliang () graduated from St. Mary's Hall, Wellesley Women's University and Johns Hopkins University. Her uncle Wen Yiduo was a well-known poet and scholar. She has an elder sister. In 1941 she attended the Shanghai Zhongxi No. 2 School. She secondary studied at St. Mary's Hall. She studied and then taught at Shanghai Medical College. In 1980 she pursued advanced studies in the United States and United Kingdom, where she studied at the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Zhong (Investiture Of The Gods)
Wen Zhong () is a character in the classic Chinese novel ''Fengshen Yanyi''. He was the Grand Preceptor (Taishi) of King Zhou of Shang. Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu were both renowned as the two most powerful military figures of the Shang dynasty. They played a crucial role in defending the territories of these dynasties, almost single-handedly. In ''Fengshen Yanyi'' Wen Zhong made his first appearance in the novel's opening chapter. In his youth, he once studied under the Jinling Shengmu at the Biyou Palace of the Jiejiao sect. By decree of the Jade Emperor himself, Wen Zhong attained a third eye atop his forehead. This third eye could see through any level of disillusion and falsehood. His mount is named Mo Qilin (the Qilin has wind and cloud horns on its head, can fly in the sky with a single flap, and can travel a thousand miles in an instant; later it was killed by Leizhenzi). His weapon is called the "Jiaolong Golden Whip" (there are two whips, transformed from two dragons, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
