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Yulan (other) '', a Chinese encyclopedia
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Yulan may refer to Places * Yulan, New York, a community and census tract in the United States * Yulan, Dongkou (毓兰镇), a town of Dongkou County, Hunan, China Chinese names *Gao Yulan (born 1982), Chinese rower *Hu Yulan, Chinese tennis player *Ni Yulan (born 1960), Chinese civil rights lawyer Other uses *Yulan Festival or Ghost Festival, a traditional Chinese festival *''Taiping Yulan The ''Taiping Yulan'', translated as the ''Imperial Reader'' or ''Readings of the Taiping Era'', is a massive Chinese ''leishu'' encyclopedia compiled by a team of scholars from 977 to 983. It was commissioned by the imperial court of the Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulan, New York
Yulan is a community and census tract in Sullivan County, New York, United States. Yulan is in area code 845 (exchange 557) and has zip code 12792. The neighboring hamlets are Shohola, Pennsylvania, Eldred, New York, Eldred and Narrowsburg, New York. Yulan is the location of a Roman Catholic church, the List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York#Churches in Sullivan County, Church of St. Anthony of Padua. As of 2014, Yulan has a population of 300 people, 66.5% of whom are married. Toasperns Pond, Montgomery Lake, Bodine lake, and Washington Lake are all in Yulan. References Hamlets in Sullivan County, New York {{SullivanCountyNY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongkou County
Dongkou County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in west-central Hunan, the county is bordered to the northeast by Longhui County, to the northwest by Xupu County and Hongjiang City, to the southwest by Suining County, to the southeast by Xinning County. Dongkou County covers , as of 2015, it had a registered population of 870,900 and a permanent resident population of 784,500.the population of Dongkou County in 2015: according to the Statistical Communiqué of Dongkou County on the 2015 National Economic and Social Development (洞口县2015年国民经济和社会发展统计公报)shaoyang.gov (25-Mar-16)o The county has 11 towns, nine townships and three subdistricts under its jurisdiction, the county seat is Wenchang Subdistrict ().the divisions of Dongkou County in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Dongkou County on July 30, 2015shaoyang.gov (30-Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, Guizhou to the west and Chongqing to the northwest. Its capital and largest city is Changsha, which also abuts the Xiang River. Hengyang, Zhuzhou, and Yueyang are among its most populous urban cities. With a population of just over 66 million residing in an area of approximately , it is China's 7th most populous province, the fourth most populous among landlocked provinces, the second most populous in South Central China after Guangdong and the most populous province in Central China. It is the largest province in South-Central China and the fourth largest among landlocked provinces and the 10th most extensive province by area. Hunan's nominal GDP was US$ 724 billion (CNY 4.6 trillion) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gao Yulan
Gao Yulan (born 3 October 1982 in Ruichang, Jiujiang, Jiangxi) is a female Chinese rower, who won silver medal in the Women's double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her race partner was Wu You Wu You (; born 27 March 1984 in Jinzhou, Liaoning) is a female Chinese rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached .... At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she and partner Zhang Yage did not qualify for the final. Records *2008 World Cup Lucerne – 1st W2- References 1982 births Living people Olympic rowers for China Olympic silver medalists for China People from Jiujiang Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Chinese female rowers Rowers from Jiangxi Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics 20th-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Yulan
Hu Yulan also known as Hu Yu-lan (; 1945 – 18 October, 2021) was a female international table tennis player from China. Table tennis career From 1972 to 1975 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships. The three World Championship medals included two gold medals in the singles at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships and team event at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References 1945 births 2021 deaths Chinese female table tennis players Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ni Yulan
Ni Yulan (, born 24 March 1960) is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China. She has established herself in defending Weiquan movement, human rights in China by providing legal aid to persecuted groups such as Persecution of Falun Gong, Falun Gong practitioners and victims of Forced eviction (China), forced eviction. Ni has gone through multiple arrests, three prison sentences, and torture following her human rights cases against the Chinese government. Her license to practice law was later revoked by Chinese authorities. In 2011, the Dutch government awarded Ni the Human Rights Tulip, and in 2016, the United States Department of State gave her the International Women of Courage Award. Education and career Ni entered Beijing Language and Culture University in 1978 and obtained a bachelor's degree in Chinese. She went on to obtain a law degree from China University of Political Science and Law, and became a lawyer in 1986. She then worked as a legal consultant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Festival
The Ghost Festival, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival (traditional Chinese: 中元節; simplified Chinese: ) in Taoism and Yulanpen Festival () in Buddhism, is a traditional Taoist and Buddhist festival held in certain East Asian countries. According to the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in parts of southern China).Chow 2015 In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (or Tomb Sweeping Day, in spring) and Double Ninth Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, during Ghost Festival, the deceased are believed to visit the living. On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
