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2 unusual facts about Lingnan


Hai Sheng Wang

Hai Sheng Wang studied art in Canton, China from Professor Li Xiongcai who is the best known great master of the Lingnan School of Landscape Painting.

Lingnan

At that time, Lingnan was considered as a barbarian land and it had loose contact with the Zhongyuan region, which was the cultural cradle of Chinese culture.


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Hong Kong Archaeological Society

In 2004–05, the society invited Lingnan Archaeology of Sun Yat-sen University to salvage a stone quarry excavation site at Wong Tei Tung near Sai Kung.

Jian Youwen

Jian was born in Guangdong in 1896, the son of Jian Yinchu and Jian Wenliu, and educated at Lingnan School, where he was baptized as a Christian.

Liberal arts college

Examples of such colleges are Mount Allison University, Bishop's University, and St. Thomas University in Canada; John Cabot University in Rome, Italy; European College of Liberal Arts in Germany; Lingnan University in Hong Kong; University College Maastricht in the Netherlands, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in Pune, India, Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel, Campion College in Sydney, Australia; Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, etc.

Lingnan culture

--寶墨園--> is located at Zini Village near Shawan town of Panyu and is a fine example of classical Lingnan architecture.

Longchuan County, Guangdong

The Beijing–Kowloon, Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou and Zhangping–Longchuan Railways intersect in Longchuan, making it an important railway hub for the Lingnan region.

Mo Xuanqing

In 851, at the age of 17, he was also the first youngest Number One Scholar (in the imperial examination) in Chinese history since Sui Dynasty and the first Number One Scholar in Lingnan.

Zheng Tian

At Zheng's suggestion, the imperial control over the salt and iron monopolies in the region was transferred to Wei He (韋荷) the military governor of Lingnan East, who was authorized to boil water to produce salt for sale, and then use the proceeds to buy food supplies from the prefectures in the southern parts of Jiangxi Circuit (江西, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi).


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