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Xuan (surname)
Xuan () is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the rare Chinese surname written as a Chinese character. It is romanized Hsüan in Wade–Giles. It is not among the top 300 most common Chinese surnames. Notable people * Xuan Zeng ( 宣缯); fl. early 13th century), high minister of the Southern Song dynasty * Xuan Xiafu ( 宣侠父; 1899–1938), Communist agent assassinated by the KMT * Xuan Jinglin (宣景琳; 1907–1992), actress * Hsuan Ming-chih ( 宣明智; born 1952), former general manager of UMC * Jessica Hsuan or Xuan Xuan (born 1970), Hong Kong actress * Xuan Zan, fictional character in the classical novel ''Water Margin ''Water Margin'' (''Shuihu zhuan'') is one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin, and is attributed to Shi Nai'an. It is also translated as ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' and ''All Men Are Brothers''. The story, which is s ...'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Xuan Chinese-language surnames Individual Chinese surnames ... [...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] |
