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In Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, 圓 / 圆 yuán literally means "round". During the Qing Dynasty and early Republic the yuan was a large, thick round coin made of silver, modelled on the Spanish dollar . The word is usually written with the Chinese character 元, literally meaning "beginning" but used as an abbreviation for 圓.
Yuan Xingqin (元行欽) (died 26 May 926), known as Li Shaorong (李紹榮) c. 915–926, was a Chinese military general and politician of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Yan and Jin/Later Tang states.
Emperor Taizong of Tang (28 January 598 – 10 July 649), previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. He is traditionally regarded as a co-founder of the dynasty for his role in encouraging his father Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu) to rebel against the Sui dynasty at ...
Flowers in the Mirror ( traditional Chinese: 鏡花緣; simplified Chinese: 镜花缘; pinyin: Jìnghuāyuán ), also translated as The Marriage of Flowers in the Mirror, or Romance of the Flowers in the Mirror, is a fantasy novel written by Li Ruzhen (Li Ju-chen), completed in the year of 1827 during the Qing dynasty . The 100-chapter novel is ...
Li or Lee ( [lì]; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. [1] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, [2] and more than 100 million in Asia. [3] It is the second-most common surname in China as of 2018, [2] [4] the ...
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Lí Jiāng. IPA. [lǐ tɕjáŋ] The Li River or Li Jiang ( Chinese: 漓江; pinyin: Lí Jiāng) is the name for the upper reaches of the Gui River in northeastern Guangxi, China. It is part of the Xijiang River system in the Pearl River basin, flowing 164 kilometres (102 mi) from Xing'an County to Pingle County .
Li Yuan (Chinese: 黎原; 1917 – December 18, 2008) was a People's Liberation Army major general who served as Chairman of the Hunan Province Revolutionary Committee during the Cultural Revolution. History. He was born in Xi County, Henan Province in 1917.
Yuan Xiangxian. Yuan Xiangxian ( 袁象先) (864? [1] /865? [2] –. July 11, 924? [1] [2] [3] ), known briefly as Li Shao'an ( 李紹安) during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period states Later Liang and Later Tang. He was a nephew of Later Liang's founding emperor ...