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Tang of Shang. Cheng Tang [a] (born Zi Lü [b] [1] ), recorded on oracle bones as, in English, Tai Yi [1] (太乙) or Da Yi (大乙), was the first king of the Shang dynasty. Tang is traditionally considered a virtuous ruler, as signified with the common nickname of " Tang the Perfect " given to him. [2] According to legend, [3] as the last ...
Tai Tzu-ying ( Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. [1] At the age of 22, she achieved world no.1 in the BWF women's singles ranking in December 2016, and has held that title for 214 weeks, the longest in BWF history. [note 1] Tai was the women's singles ...
The Tang dynasty (/ t ɑː ŋ /, [6]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period .
Ban Gu (AD 32–92) was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of fu, a major literary form, part prose and part poetry, which is particularly associated with the Han era. A number of Ban's fu were collected by Xiao Tong ...
The Kaiyuan Tongbao (traditional Chinese: 開元通寶; simplified Chinese: 开元通宝; pinyin: kāiyuán tōng bǎo; lit. 'Circulating treasure from the inauguration of a new epoch'), sometimes romanised as Kai Yuan Tong Bao or using the archaic Wade-Giles spelling K'ai Yuan T'ung Pao, was a Tang dynasty cash coin that was produced from 621 under the reign of Emperor Gaozu and remained in ...
General. Made in. Japan. The Minolta XE, known as the XE-1 in Europe and the XE-7 in North America, is a manual focus, 35 mm single-lens reflex camera produced by Minolta of Japan between 1974 and 1977. [ 1] It was developed in collaboration with Leica Camera and has many similarities to the Leica R3 . The XE uses a Leitz - Copal electronic ...
The Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song ( Chinese: 唐宋八大家; pinyin: Táng Sòng Bā Dàjiā) refers to a grouping of prose writers, during the Tang and Song dynasties, who were renowned for their prose writing, mostly in the essay form. Almost all of the eight masters are also accomplished in other aspects of Chinese politics ...
July 10, 2024 at 10:23 PM. Night 2 of MasterChef: Generations continued to pit the generations – Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z – against each other. Wednesday night’s challenge ...