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Empress Lü. Lü Zhi (241–18 August 180 BC), [1] courtesy name E'xu (娥姁) [2] and commonly known as Empress Lü ( traditional Chinese: 呂后; simplified Chinese: 吕后; pinyin: Lǚ Hòu) and formally Empress Gao of Han ( 漢高后; 汉高后; Hàn Gāo Hòu ), was the empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty ...
The Records of the Three Kingdoms ( traditional Chinese: 三國志; simplified Chinese: 三国志; pinyin: Sānguó zhì ), is a Chinese imperial history that covers the end of the Han dynasty ( c. 184–220 CE) and the following Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE). It is widely regarded as the official and authoritative source text for these ...
Western Xia dynasty, 13th century. Mahāsthāmaprāpta is a bodhisattva mahāsattva who represents the power of wisdom. His name literally means "arrival of the great strength". Mahāsthāmaprāpta is one of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism, along with Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, Avalokiteśvara, Ākāśagarbha, Kṣitigarbha ...
The name Shih Tzu is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese characters 獅子 ("lion"). A female Shih Tzu at around 18 months of age. A female Shih Tzu, with different colored eyes. In contemporary Mandarin, the Shih Tzu is generally known as the "Xi Shi dog"; Xi Shi was regarded as one of the most beautiful women of ancient China.
This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese. The below table indicates possible combinations of initials and finals in ...
The Yuezhi ( Chinese: 月氏; pinyin: Yuèzhī, Ròuzhī or Rùzhī; Wade–Giles: Yüeh4-chih1, Jou4-chih1 or Ju4-chih1 ;) were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC.
The Untamed. Mo Dao Zu Shi ( Chinese: 魔道祖师; pinyin: Módào Zǔshī; lit. 'Demonic Path Ancestral Master') is a Chinese donghua series based on the novel of the same name written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ( Chinese: 墨香铜臭 ). It is produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures and B.C May Pictures.
Shi Xie ( pronunciation ⓘ) (137–226), courtesy name Weiyan, also rendered as Sĩ Nhiếp in Vietnamese, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period of China. [1] He served as the Administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery in present-day northern Vietnam.