The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.
Wade–Giles is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's Chinese–English Dictionary of 1892.
Chang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.
Zhang Xuan (713–755) was a Chinese painter who lived during the Tang Dynasty (618–907).
Guang Qi(pinyin) or Kuang Chi(Wade–Giles) may refer to:
The Northeastern Army, was the Chinese army of the Fengtien clique until the unification of China in 1928. From 1931 to 1933 it faced the Japanese forces in northeast China, Jehol and Hebei, in the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Zhang Yanyuan, courtesy name Aibin (爱宾), was a Chinese art historian, scholar, calligrapher and painter of the late Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Ji, courtesy name Yisun (懿孙), was a Chinese poet born in Xiangyang during the Tang dynasty.
The Tang Huiyao is an institutional history of Tang dynasty compiled by Wang Pu and presented it to Emperor Taizu of Song in 961. The book contains 100 volumes and 514 sections, it has an abundant content for the period before 846, and scarce material unobtainable from the Tongdian, Old Book of Tang, and New Book of Tang.
The 8th National People's Congress was in session from 1993 to 1998. It succeeded the 7th National People's Congress. It held five sessions in this period.
Qieding District is a coastal suburban district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Zou is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China. Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau, Trau, Tsou or Chew. It is the 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, often referred to as The Transmission of the Lamp, is a 30 volume work consisting of putative biographies of the Chan Buddhist and Zen Buddhist patriarchs and other prominent Buddhist monks. It was produced in the Song dynasty by Shi Daoyuan. Other than the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall, it represents the first appearance of "encounter dialogues" in the Chan tradition, which in turn are the antecedents of the famous kōan stories.
Zhang Ji, courtesy name Wenchang (文昌), was a Tang dynasty poet and scholar.
Yu Jiao Li, known in the West as Iu-Kiao-Li: or, the Two Fair Cousins, is an early-Qing Chinese caizi jiaren novel by Zhang Yun (張勻).
Zsolt Tokaji (simplified Chinese: 陶凯; traditional Chinese: 陶凱; pinyin: Táo Kǎi: Wade–Giles: T'ao K'ai; born 25 March 1971 in Debrecen is a Hungarian writer, sinologist and translator chiefly known for translating many classic and early Chinese texts into Hungarian, most famously the Inner Canon of Huangdi.
Zhang Hu was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Chengji.
Jiang and Chiang is a Chinese surname. In 2019, it was the 39th most common surname in mainland China. It is listed 13th in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
Wèi is a Chinese surname. It means ‘defend, guard’ and is written Wai in Cantonese. The character 衞 is traditionally preferred although 衛 is now more prevalent, with 卫 being the simplified form in Mainland China. In 2013 it was found to be the 214th most common surname, shared by 480,000 people or 0.036% of the population, with the province with the most being Shanxi.
Wen Tian or Wentian or variation, may refer to:
