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Xie (surname 解)
Xiè is the pinyin romanization of the surname 解. The character 解 is also pronounced "Jiě". A 2013 study found that it was the 182nd-most common surname, shred by 710,000 people or 0.053% of the population, with Shandong being the province with the most. Notable people * Xie Feng, politician * Xie Jin, mandarin * Xie Zhenhua, politician * Xie Jingxian () (born October 31, 1983), Chinese pianist * Xie Zhong (; born September 19, 1998), Chinese pair skater * Xie Xuegong (; October 6, 1913–March 3, 1993), Chinese politician, also known as Xie Bin ( Chinese: 谢宾) * Xie Fei (; fl. 334–349), Chinese inventor and scholar of the Later Zhao * Chieh Yuan (1945–1977), Malaysian-born Hong Kong actor and martial artist Fictional * Xie Bao Xie Bao is a fictional character in '' Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Twin-tailed Scorpion", he ranks 35th among the 36 Heavenly Spirits, the first third of the 108 Stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and a site with one of the longest histories of continuous religious worship in the world. The Buddhist temples in the mountains south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu was the birthplace of Confucius, and later became the center of Confucianism. Shandong's location at the intersection of ancient and modern north–south and east–west trading routes has helped establish it as an economic center. After a period of political instability and economic hardship beginning in the late 19th century, Shandong has experienced rapid growth in recent de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Feng (politician)
Xie Feng () (1922 – August 21, 2004) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Yi County, Hebei Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ... in 1939. He was governor of his home province. References 1922 births 2004 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei Governors of Hebei Chinese police officers Politicians from Baoding {{China-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Jin (mandarin)
Xie Jin (1369–1415), courtesy name Dashen, art name Chunyu, was a Chinese scholar-official, painter, and calligrapher during the Ming dynasty. He served as grand secretary during the reign of the Yongle Emperor from 1402 to 1407. However, his career was cut short due to the animosity of the emperor's younger son, Zhu Gaoxu. In 1411, Xie Jin was removed from office, arrested, and ultimately killed after spending several years in prison. Xie Jin was born in 1369 in Jishui ''zhou'', Ji'an ''lu'' (present-day Jishui County, Ji'an, Jiangxi) in Jiangxi province. He came from a family with a long-standing tradition of government service; his father, Xie Kai (, 1312–1398), was a member of the educated gentry, and two of his father's brothers served in the Ming government. Xie Jin showed exceptional aptitude for Confucian studies as a child, and in 1387, he passed the provincial civil service examination. The following year, at a remarkably young age, he passed the highest level of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Jingxian
Xie Jingxian (; born October 31, 1983) is a Chinese pianist from Shanghai. She is also known by her English name Jane Xie. Early years Xie started to learn playing the piano at the age of four with Fu Jianmin, and won many prizes both home and abroad during her childhood. During the period of 1996-2002, she studied at the middle school affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music where she won many scholarships for musical excellence under the guidance of her professor, Zheng Shuxing, from the Shanghai conservatory of Music. Despite her youth, at that time she was already invited to give several piano recitals all over China for solos and concertos with orchestras like Xiamen Philharmonic, among others. Education With the clear intention of learning from the best, she moved to the cradle of classical music, Munich, and passed the entrance examination at the University of Music and Performing Arts (Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater). From 2002 to 2008, she there attended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Zhong
Xie Zhong (; born September 19, 1998) is a Chinese pair skater. With his former skating partner, Gao Yumeng, he is the 2017 World Junior bronze medalist and 2017 Chinese national bronze medalist on the senior level. Early career Xie began learning to skate in 2003. Following a partnership with Wang Wen, he teamed up with Zhang Mingyang. The two competed on the 2013 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series, placing fourth in August in Riga, Latvia. Xie placed fifth skating with Zhang Ziyi at the Chinese Championships in December 2014. 2015–2016 season During the 2015–2016 season, Xie skated in partnership with Zhao Ying. They appeared at two 2015 JGP events, placing 8th in August in Riga, Latvia, and 7th the following month in Linz, Austria. Competing on the senior level, the pair won the bronze medal at the Chinese Championships in December. They placed 5th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, held in February in Hamar, Norway. Zhao/Xie were assigned to the 2016 World Juni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Xuegong
Xie Xuegong (; October 6, 1916 – March 3, 1993) also known as Xie Bin () was a People's Republic of China politician. Biography He was born in Xi County, Shanxi Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in July 1936. He was acting Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of his home province (July 1951 – July 1952). In 1966, he succeeded People's Liberation Army senior general Ulanhu (who later became Vice President of the People's Republic of China) as Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia. He was Party Secretary of Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ... (May 1971 – June 1978) as well as mayor. He was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in 1987. He died at the age of 76. {{Tianjin leaders 1916 births 1993 deaths 20th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized Chinese characters, character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters. Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese government since the 1950s. They are the official forms used in mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore, while traditional characters are officially used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Simplification of a component—either a character or a sub-component called a Radical (Chinese characters), radical—usually involves either a reduction in its total number of Chinese character strokes, strokes, or an apparent streamlining of which strokes are chosen in what places—for example, the radical used in the traditional character is simplified to to form the simplified charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Fei (inventor)
Xiè Fēi (; fl. 334–349) was a scholar of the Later Zhao state during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He served as Head of the Healing (Medicinal) Department in the State Chancellery. He is known as a mechanical engineer who built a south-pointing chariot (also called a "south-pointing carriage"), a directional compass vehicle which apparently did not use magnetic principles, but was operated by use of differential gears (which apply equal amounts of torque to driving wheels rotating at different speeds), or a similar angular differential principle.J.Needham (1986), ''"Science and Civilization in China"'', Taipei, Caves Books, Ltd, Volume 4, Part 2, pp. 40 and 287, For the great ingenuity shown in the construction of the device, the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Hu granted him the noble title of ''hou Hou or HOU may refer to: Places * Hou (Odder Municipality), a town in Denmark * Hellenic Open University, in Patras, Greece * Hounslow railway station (National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Later Zhao
Zhao, briefly known officially as Wei (衛) in 350 AD, known in historiography as the Later Zhao (; 319–351) or Shi Zhao (石趙), was a dynasty of China ruled by the Shi family of Jie ethnicity during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Among the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Later Zhao was the second in territorial size to the Former Qin dynasty that once unified northern China under Fu Jian. In historiography, it is given the prefix of "Later" to distinguish it with the Han-Zhao or Former Zhao, which changed its name from "Han" to "Zhao" just before the Later Zhao was founded. When the Later Zhao was founded by former Han-Zhao general Shi Le, the capital was at Xiangguo (襄國, in modern Xingtai, Hebei), but in 335 Shi Hu moved the capital to Ye (Hebei), Yecheng (鄴城, in modern Handan, Hebei), where it would remain for the rest of the state's history (except for Shi Zhi's brief attempt to revive the state at Xiangguo). After defeating the Han-Zhao in 329, the Later Zhao ruled a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chieh Yuan
Chieh Yuan (15 March 194516 November 1977) was an actor and martial artist. He was an actor for Shaw Brothers and in 1972, he was cast in Bruce Lee's '' The Game of Death''. Chieh died in 1977 from cerebral edema, the same cause to Bruce Lee's death, and at age 32, the same age at which Bruce Lee had died. See also * Cinema of Hong Kong * Game of Death * Shaw Bros. External links * Gai Yuenat the Hong Kong Movie Database The Hong Kong Movie Database (HKMDB) is a bilingual ( English and Chinese) website started in 1995 by Ryan Law. It provides a repository for information about movies originating from Hong Kong and the people who created them. The database was ... 1945 births 1977 deaths Hong Kong male film actors Malaysian male film actors Malaysian martial artists People from Kluang 20th-century Hong Kong male actors Neurological disease deaths in Hong Kong Deaths from cerebral edema Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysian emigrants to Hong Kong [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Bao
Xie Bao is a fictional character in '' Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Twin-tailed Scorpion", he ranks 35th among the 36 Heavenly Spirits, the first third of the 108 Stars of Destiny. Background The novel depicts Xie Bao as seven '' chi'' tall, dark-complexioned and having a round face. Each of his ankles is tattooed with a flying yaksha. Nicknamed "Twin-tailed Scorpion", Xie Bao usually wears the hide of a tiger or a leopard as his outer garment, just like his elder brother Xie Zhen. Skilled in martial arts, agile in climbing hills and able to endure bad weathers, the brothers each use a bronze forked spear in hunting, which is also their weapon in combat. When he is enraged, Xie Bao could shake things around him with his roar. Joining Liangshan The governor of Dengzhou (登州; in present-day eastern Shandong) orders Xie Zhen and Xie Bao, the best among local hunters, to hunt down a tiger in three days which has prey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
