GansuTibetan nameTibetanཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན།Mongolian nameMongolian CyrillicГаньсү мужMongolian scriptᠭᠠᠨᠰᠤ ᠮᠤᠵᠢUyghur nameUyghurگەنسۇ ئۆلكىسىKazakh nameKazakhگانسۋ ولكەسىГаньсу өлкесіGansu ölkesiGansu is a province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province.
ShaanxiShaanxi is a province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km (79,000 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th-largest in China.
NingxiaOfficial nameSimplified Chinese宁夏回族自治区Traditional Chinese寧夏回族自治區Xiao'erjingنِئٍثِيَا خُوِزُو زِجِٿِيُوِHanyu PinyinNíngxià Huízú ZìzhìqūPostalNingsia Hui Autonomous RegionNingxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in Northwestern China.
Prefecture-level cityA prefecture-level city (simplified Chinese: 地级市; traditional Chinese: 地級市; pinyin: Dìjíshì) or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. It usually consists of multiple sub-prefecture-level cities or towns and the surrounding countryside.
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GuangchengziGuangchengzi (simplified Chinese: 广成子; traditional Chinese: 廣成子; pinyin: Guǎngchéngzǐ; Wade–Giles: Kuang ch'eng-tzu) is a legendary Daoist immortal associated with the Yellow Emperor and a character in the Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi. In Daoist traditionThe earliest surviving account of Guangchengzi appears in the Zhuangzi.
Former LiangThe Former Liang (Chinese: 前涼; pinyin: Qián Liáng; 301–376) was a dynastic state, and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, in Chinese history. It was founded by Zhang Shi of the Han Chinese Zhang family. Its territories included present-day Gansu and parts of Ningxia, Shaanxi, Qinghai and Xinjiang.Kongtong MountainsKongtong Mountains (Chinese: 崆峒山; pinyin: Kōngtóng Shān) is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism. It is located in Pingliang City, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China. It is the mythical meeting site between the Yellow Emperor (also known as Huangdi or by his given name 'Xuan Yuan') and Guangchengzi.
TaoismTaoism or Daoism ( , ) is a philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao (道). With a range of meanings and interpretations in Chinese philosophy, translations of Tao include 'way', 'road', 'path', or 'technique', all dependent on intention as the Chinese language is polysemic in design, but generally understood in the Taoist sense as an enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying what is understood as reality.
PinyinScheme for the Chinese Phonetic AlphabetSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseLiteral meaningscheme of spelled Han language sounds This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
Yellow EmperorThe Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or Huangdi (traditional Chinese: 黃帝; simplified Chinese: 黄帝), was a legendary Chinese leader of the Youxiong clan, a culture hero included among the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. He is revered as a deity individually or as part of the Five Regions Highest Deities (Chinese: 五方上帝; pinyin: Wǔfāng Shàngdì) in Chinese folk religion.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.