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Tân Saⁿ And Gō͘-niû
The ''Tale of the Lychee Mirror'' () is a 16th-century Ming dynasty play written by an unknown author. History The play was written in a mixture of the Southern Min dialects of Quanzhou and Chaozhou ( Teochew), and is one of the earliest sources on those dialects. The oldest extant manuscripts date from 1566 and 1581. This story is widely spread in Minnan-speaking areas, mainly the south part of Fujian, Chaoshan (Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou), Southeast Asia and Taiwan. ''Tân Saⁿ and Gō͘-niû'' (; ''Teochew'': ''Dang5 San1 Ngou6 Niê5'') is a popular Taiwanese opera adaptation based on the play. Story Tân Saⁿ (Tan) is a scholar who is native to Quanzhou in southern Fujian province. When he sent his brother- and sister-in-law to Guangnan, he stopped in Chaozhou. During the Lantern Festival, Tan met N̂g Gō͘-niû (Ng) by chance and they fell in love with one another. Lim, a local rich man's son, also saw Ng in the lantern show, and he was shocked by Ng's beauty. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump state, rump regimes ruled by remnants of the House of Zhu, Ming imperial family, collectively called the Southern Ming, survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the naval history of China, navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
