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Zang (surname)
Zang is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Tsang in Wade–Giles. It is listed 112th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 241st most common surname in China, shared by 310,000 people, with the province with the most being Shandong. Notable people * Zang Tu (died 202 BC), King of Yan of the Han dynasty * Zang Gong ( 臧宫; died 58 AD), Eastern Han general, Marquis of Langling * Zang Hong ( 臧洪; died 196), Eastern Han general * Zang Ba (c. 162–230s), Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms general * Zang Aiqin ( 臧愛親; 360–408), wife of Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of Liu Song * Zang Zhi ( 臧质; 400–454), Liu Song general * Zang Maoxun (1550–1620), Ming dynasty playwright * Zang Shiyi (1884–1956), Republic of China Governor of Liaoning, politician of Manchukuo * Zang Qifang ( 臧启芳; 1894–1961), Republic of China Mayor of Tianjin, president of North ... [...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, 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. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty. The latter part of the Zhou period saw a flowering of literature, including classical works such as the '' Analects'', the ''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, Bronze, and Seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence between a character and a monosyllabic and monomorphemic word. Although the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
