“Some say it’s natural to change the names of ancient towns at present, I believe it is ridiculous to do so, as their names have so rich cultural and historical connotations,” said Liu Baoquan, a researcher on the names of towns....
Sun, Suen (Grandson) People Who Share the Same Name as the Father of China 唐 Tang, Tong Descendants of Ancient King, Yao 夏 Xia, Hsia, Ha (Summer) Descendants of Xia Yu 徐 Xu, Hsu, Shaw, Seah, Shu The Man of Lucky Omen 袁 Yuan, Yuen (Robe) Men of Ambition 11 曹 Cao, Ts...
also pronounced as Joseon. The “Go” prefix was attached to the name as it meant “old” or “ancient” and is also used to distinguish it from the time of the Joseon Dynasty that
Since ancient times, the Chinese people have attached great importance to the name. Under the influence of “Rectification of Names” of Confucius, people take it very sacred and even mystical to name their descendants. In Chinese Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC- 256 BC), naming was included in rules...
However, coordinates for certain ancient towns are approximations, and the coordinates supplied for physically large entities are for a central location. Names about which there is some question as to reference are noted with a question mark (?). Such citations are included for the sake of ...
China has an ancient imperial system, dating back to its first emperor,Qin Shi Huangdi(259-210 BCE). Qin Shi Huangdi was the first to unite all of China, and promoted a unified sense of identity, politics, and culture. The Qin dynasty basically ended with him, but the imperial focus was...
Alexander (English and Greek boy name) – Warrior name meaning“defender of men”; famous namesakes include Alexander the Great, the legendary king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon Benjamin (English and Hebrew boy name) –“Son of the right hand”; biblical boy name after the youngest...
This rather controversal hypothesis of the Chinese racial integration into the Vietnamese society, where peoples of the already mixture of ancient Yuè, or BáchViệt, former Chinese immigrants, and aborigine right from ancient times had been living, helps explain why all contemporary Vietnamese...
.It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines.All the work was done by hand.Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built.The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth,but of the flesh and blood of millions of ...
.It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines.All the work was done by hand.Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built.The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth,but of the flesh and blood of millions of ...