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Yinghua Township
Yinghua may refer to: * Cherry blossom for Chinese * Yinghua (蓥华镇), Shifang, Deyang, Sichuan, China * Yinghua Township (英华乡), Zhenlai County, Baicheng, Jilin province, China * YingHua International School, Princeton, New Jersey Names * Cheng Yinghua (born 1958), a Chinese table tennis player * He Yinghua (何映华; born 1949), member of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress * Isabel Yinghua Hernandez Santos, (born 1995), a Spanish Paralympic swimmer * Jia Yinghua (born 1952), a Chinese writer and researcher * Tie Yinghua (born 1993), a Chinese kickboxer * Wu Yinghua (1907–1996), a famous Chinese teacher of Wu-style tai chi * Carol Yinghua Lu (born 1977), a curator, art critic and writer * Ivana Lie (李英華; pinyin: Lǐ yīnghuá; born 1960), an Indonesian former badminton player * Michael Chow (周英華; pinyin: Zhōu Yīnghuá; born 1939), a British Chinese restaurateur, interior designer, artist and actor See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Blossom
A cherry blossom, also known as Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of many trees of genus ''Prunus'' or ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus''. They are common species in East Asia, including China, Korea and especially in Japan. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not to be confused with cherry trees that produce fruit for eating.Toshio Katsuki. (2015) ''Sakura''. pp.14–18 Iwanami Shoten. It is considered the national flower of Japan. Wild species of the cherry tree is widely distributed mainly in the Northern hemisphere. In the mainstream classification in Europe and North America, cherry trees for ornamental purposes are classified into the genus ''Prunus'' which consists of about 400 species. In the mainstream classification in Japan, China, and Russia, on the other hand, ornamental cherry trees are classified into the genus ''Cerasus'', which consists of about 100 species separated from the genus ''Prunus'', and the genus ''Cerasus'' does not include ''Prun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tie Yinghua
Tie Yinghua () is a Chinese kickboxer who competes in the Wu Lin Feng and Glory of Heroes organizations. As of July 2019, he is ranked the #10 featherweight in the world by Combat Press. Championships and awards *Wu Lin Feng ** 2012 Wu Lin Feng 65 kg Champion ** 2013 Wu Lin Feng 65 kg Champion ** 2013 Wu Lin Feng 4-man Asia tournament runner-up ** 2015 Wu Lin Feng 67 kg Champion ** 2021 Wu Lin Feng Knockout of the Year (vs Liu Yaning) * Glory of Heroes ** 2018 Glory of Heroes 67 kg Champion Fight record , - style="background:#fbb;" , 2022-12-09 , , Loss , , align=left, Vladimir Shuliak , , Wu Lin Feng 532 , , Zhengzhou, China , , TKO (Corner stoppage), , 3 , , , - style="background:#cfc;" , 2021-09-25 , , Win , , align=left, Wei Ninghui, , Wu Lin Feng 2021: WLF in Tangshan , , Tangshan, China , , Decision (Unanimous), , 3 , , 3:00 , - style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;" , 2021-07-03 , , Win, , align=left, Xu Jian , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wenyuan Yinghua
The ''Wenyuan Yinghua'' (), sometimes translated as ''Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature'', is an anthology of poetry, odes, songs and writings from the Liang dynasty to the Five Dynasties era. Wenyuan Yinghua is a showreel of Literature work from around the Song Dynasty. The book was initially compiled by a team of officers including Song Bai (宋白), Hu Meng (扈蒙), Xu Xuan (徐鉉) under an imperial order from 982 to 986 during the Northern Song dynasty. Southern Song scholar Zhou Bida printed the book at last in 1204, while four extensive alterations and countless minor revisions were put forth in the extent of the past 200 years. Wenyuan Yinghua is divided into 1,000 volumes and 38 genera by sections with 19,102 pieces of works written by about 2,200 authors; much of the crucial compilation of the writings came from the Tang dynasty scholars. It is considered one of the Four Great Books of Song. Despite this, Wenyuan Yinghua has a massive amount of valuable conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wenxin Yinghua Metro Station
Wenxin Yinghua is a metro station on the Green Line Green Line may refer to: Places Military and political * Green Line (France), the German occupation line in France during World War II * Green Line (Israel), the 1949 armistice line established between Israel and its neighbours ** City Line ( ... operated by Taichung Metro in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from its location at the intersection of Wenxin and Yinghua roads. Station layout References Taichung Metro Railway stations in Taichung Railway stations in Taiwan opened in 2021 {{Taiwan-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chow (restaurateur)
Michael Chow (; born 7 March 1939) is a British Chinese restaurateur, interior designer, artist and former actor. Chow, also known as M, is the co-founder and owner of the Mr Chow restaurant chain. He has appeared in numerous films, held solo art exhibitions and worked as an architectural designer. Life and career Chow was born Zhou Yinghua in Shanghai. His father was Zhou Xinfang, one of China's most famous actors of his time and the leading figure at the Peking Opera. His sister is an actress and erstwhile Bond girl Tsai Chin. His mother came from a wealthy family whose fortune had been made in tea. He was sent to a British boarding school when he was 12 and spent his adolescence in Europe; after arriving in London in 1952, he was never able to speak to nor see his father again. In 1956, Chow studied at Saint Martin’s School of Arts and the following year at the Hammersmith School of Building and Architecture. He had a career as a painter in parallel with his acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Lie
Ivana Lie Ing Hoa (; born March 7, 1960) is an Indonesian former badminton player who played at the world level from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Early life She was born in Bandung, Indonesia on 7 March 1960. She came from a poor family; her mother was a dressmaker. She became interested in badminton during her childhood; she won a Junior Championship in West Java in 1975. Career In the 1980 IBF World Championships in Jakarta she earned a silver medal in women's singles, losing the final to fellow countrywoman Verawaty Wiharjo, after defeating defending champion Lene Køppen in the semifinal.Craig Reedy, "Indonesia Take Four Titles." ''World Badminton'', June 1980, 10, 11. She won singles at the Taiwan Open in 1982, the Indonesia Open and the Southeast Asian Games in 1983, and at the Chinese Taipei Masters Invitation in 1984. She was runner-up at the 1984 World Badminton Grand Prix to China's formidable Han Aiping. Though primarily a singles player early in her career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Yinghua Lu
Carol Yinghua Lu is a curator, art critic and writer who lives and works in Beijing. Early life Lu was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, in 1977. Lu graduated from the critical studies programme of Malmö Art Academy Malmö Art Academy is an art school as part of Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , bud ... at Sweden’s Lund University in 2005 and served as a China Researcher for Asia Art Archive from 2005 to 2007. Career Lu is a contributing editor at Frieze (magazine), a London-based art magazine, co-founder and co-editor of Contemporary Art & Investment magazine, and sits on the editorial board for the Arnolfini Art Center’s Far West magazine. Lu writes essays on contemporary art research for many international art journals and magazines, including E-flux publications, e-flux journal, The Exhibitionist, Yishu, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Yinghua
Wu Yinghua (1907–1996) was a famous Chinese teacher of Wu-style tai chi. She was born in Beijing and died in Shanghai. She was the eldest daughter of Wu Jianquan, the best known teacher of Wu-style tai chi. Her older brothers were Wu Gongyi and Wu Gongzao, also well-known tai chi practitioners. Biography Wu Yinghua began studying tai chi at age nine, and by age seventeen, she was a full-time teacher in her father's school. In 1921, she was invited to teach tai chi in Shanghai. In 1928, her father followed her to Shanghai and she became his teaching assistant. In 1930, she married Ma Yueliang who was Wu Jianquan's senior disciple. In 1935, Wu Jianquan founded the Jianquan Taijiquan Association (鑑泉太極拳社) in Shanghai. Wu Jianquan died in 1942. After the Cultural Revolution, at about 1980, it became possible to teach tai chi publicly in China again. About this time her brother Wu Gongzao was released from prison and moved to Hong Kong. Wu Yinghua and Ma Yueliang, remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jia Yinghua
Jia Yinghua () was a Chinese writer and researcher who focused on the late Qing Dynasty. He served as Vice President of the Biography Society of China, commissioner of National Commission of the Chinese Writers’ Association, President of China's Electrical Power Writers' Association. Representative works of his include ''The Later Half of the Last Emperor's Life'' (), ''The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting'' (), ''The Last Emperor’s Brother: The Life of Pujie'' (). The Japanese version of The Later Half of the Last Emperor's Life is a bestseller in Japan, attracting great attention and garnering enormous popularity. According to authoritative media and press organizations in more than 100 countries and regions, including China, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan this book is a successful continuation of ''From Emperor to Citizen'' (): The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi () written by Pu Yi himself. The Chinese v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shifang
Shifang is a county-level city in Sichuan, China, under administration of Deyang prefecture-level city. It is located directly about from Chengdu. It had an area of and a population of 430,000 in 2004. Shifang has a history stretching back over two thousand years. It suffered heavy damage during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The city was also the scene of a large-scale environmental protest against a copper smelting plant in July 2012. Names The area was first known as Zhifang during the Chu-Han Contention that followed the collapse of China's Qin dynasty. Under Wang Mang's Xin dynasty, the area was renamed Meixin County in AD4, but the Bright and Martial Emperor of the restored Han dynasty restored the name Zhifang—with a different character—in AD25. The current name was first adopted in AD221 by the Kingdom of Shu. Under the Northern Zhou, Shifang was known as Fangting or Fangning between 557 and its merger with Luo County sometime between 566 and 576. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Yinghua Hernandez Santos
Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popular in England in the 13th century following the marriage of Isabella of Angoulême to the king of England. Today sometimes abbreviated to Isa. Etymology This set of names is a Spanish variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba through Latin and Greek represented in English and other western languages as Elisabeth.Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 337a.Chantal Tanet et Tristan Hordé, ''Dictionnaire des prénoms'', Larousse, Paris, 2009, p. 38 These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John the Bapt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agriculture And Rural Affairs Committee Of The National People's Congress
The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress () is one of nine special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. The special committee was created during the first session of the 9th National People's Congress The 9th National People's Congress () was in session from 1998 to 2003. It held five plenary sessions in this period. It followed the final session of the 8th National People's Congress. There were 2,979 deputies to this Congress. Election result ... in March 1998, and has existed for every National People's Congress since. Membership References {{National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
