Prince Jia, King Qian's elder brother, escaped from Handan and went to Dai (代; present-day Yu County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei), where, with help from Zhao's remnants, he declared himself "King of Dai".
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The story of Qin's torture in hell is so well known that the Daoist Eastern Peak Temple, which is famous for its statuary representations of the celestial hierarchy, has a small hall dedicated to Yue Fei in which a likeness of the former Prime Minister is being led off to the underworld by a demon.
A Thousand Pieces of Gold was published in 2002, and looks at events under the Qin and Han dynasties through Chinese proverbs and their origins in Sima Qian's history, Shiji.
Qin Yao (1544–1604) was the son of Qin He, who had achieved renown for leading the defense of the town of Wukang from pirates in the 1550s.
Born in Mei (now Mei County in Shaanxi Province), as commander of the Qin army for more than 30 years, Bai Qi was responsible for the deaths of a total over 890,000 enemy soldiers, earning him the nickname Ren Tu (人屠 human butcher).
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The king, therefore, had to use Wang He (王齕), another prominent general of Qin, instead of Bai Qi, as the commander.
Battle of Fei River (淝水之戰), fought between Former Qin and Eastern Jin Dynasty in AD 383
The last Protector General, Dan Qin, was killed during a rebellion led by Yanqi in 13 AD.
The BYD Qin concept car was unveiled at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, and the car is named after China's first empire, the Qin Dynasty.
Chen Sheng, setting his capital at Chen County (陳縣; in present-day Huaiyang, Henan), then commissioned various generals to advance in all directions to conquer Qin territory.
In 617, when the agrarian rebel leader Xue Ju rose against Sui rule and declared himself the Emperor of Qin, Chu Liang and Chu Suiliang both joined Xue's administration.
Its name is derived from its two terminal cities, Datong, a coal mining center in Shanxi province, and Qinhuangdao, of Hebei province, on the Bohai Sea.
Jin dispatched an army to repel Qin, and the two forces met at nearby Hequ (河曲, present-day Fenglingdu, Ruicheng County), but both retreated without engaging in battle.
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A year after the battle at Linghu, Qin invaded Jin and took the city of Wucheng (武城, in present-day Hua County, Shaanxi) in revenge.
In 456 BC, the State of Jin attacked Qin, taking the city of Wucheng (武城, in present-day Hua County, Shaanxi).
The following year he moved the Qin capital eastward from Quanqiu (犬丘, also called Xichui, in present-day Li County, Gansu) to Qian (汧, in present-day Long County, Shaanxi).
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King Ping further promised to give Qin the land west of Qishan, the former heartland of Zhou, if Qin could expel the Rong tribes that were occupying the land.
Liu Qin was married to the daughter of one Fan Chong (樊重), and he and his wife had three sons – Liu Yan, Liu Zhong (劉仲), and Liu Xiu.
Her husband was Emperor Fei (Yuan Qin), and her father was Western Wei's paramount general Yuwen Tai.
While studying at the Mannes College of Music in New York City in the early 1990s, Qin founded the Rough Assemblage composers' collective, along with Mark De Gli Antoni and Norman Yamada.
Fú Jiān (苻堅) (338–385, r. 357–385), ruler of Former Qin, posthumous name Emperor Xuanzhao
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Fú Jiàn (苻健) (317–355, r. 351–355), founding emperor of Former Qin, posthumous name Emperor Jingming
Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei did not kill him but instead treated him as an honored companion, marrying a sister to him and creating him high titles—initially the Duke of Kuaiji and later the Prince of Qin—but in 434 (after his brother and successor Helian Ding had been captured and executed, ending Xia), he tried to escape and was killed.
Ulrich Libbrecht (at the time teaching in school, but subsequently a professor of comparative philosophy) gave a detailed description in his doctoral thesis of Qin's method, he concluded: It is obvious that this procedure is a Chinese invention....the method was not known in India.
Chongqing Municipality, known as Jiangzhou (江州) during the State of Qin (316 BCE)
It was derived from Chinese Jinwang (Traditional Chinese: 晉王; pinyin: jìn wáng; lit. King of Jin) although some historians have suggested it originates from Qinwang (Traditional Chinese: 親王; pinyin: qīn wáng; lit. Prince).
A highly sought after chamber musician, recent collaborations include Australian and international tours with the Australian String Quartet, performances with violinists Natsuko Yoshimoto, Elizabeth Layton, Ilya Konovalov, (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic), Flinders Quartet, and cellists Li-Wei Qin and Guy Johnston.
General Wú Qĭ subsequently occupied Qin territory to the east of the Luo River for the four years between 409 and 406 BCE thereby expanding the State of Wei along its western borders.
Dadiwan (5800–5400 BCE) is a Neolithic site discovered in Qin'an County, in the province of Gansu.
NAGA was founded by the qin player Wang Fei in 1997 who is the current director of the society.
In late 408, Liu Jingxuan advanced to Huanghu (黃虎, in modern Suining, Sichuan), and Qiao Zong sought aid from Later Qin; Yao Xing sent an army to assist him, but at the same time, Qiao Daofu was able to resist Liu Jingxuan's advance, and after the armies stalemated for 60 days, Liu Jingxuan's army ran out of food supplies and grew ill, and was forced to retreat.
In February 2003, when Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao and her team were holding auditions in Beijing, Qin was selected from a pool of 200 candidates to play a new character "Chen Zhihua" in the third season of the television series Princess Pearl.
#For several generations the major qin lineage in Zhejiang has been surnamed Xu; Yao Bingyan and his tentative "Yaomen" lineage are an off-shoot.
Qin Shubao is one of the 32 historical figures who appear as special characters in the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI by Koei.
When Liu Bei was leaving his base in Xiaopei (小沛; in present-day Pei County, Jiangsu) after the Battle of Xiapi to follow Cao Cao back to the capital Xuchang, Qin Yilu attempted to join them on their journey.
Qin Yu (born June 1964) was briefly the chief of Baoshan District in Shanghai, China.
In his 15th chapter, "Yearly Chronicle of the Six States," he writes, “I have read the Annals of Qin (qin ji 秦記), and they say that the Quanrong a barbarian tribe defeated King You of Zhou ca 771 BC.
Many years after the year 272 years ago, when the Qin dominate the West, Xi Rong also Qin assimilation, Rong family will not appear in any history book.
In 382, the Former Qin king Fu Jian sent General Lü Guang on a military expedition to the Dayuan kingdom and promoted him to Protector General of the western border regions.
A 1499 entry in the Ming Shilu recorded that thirteen Chinese men from Wenchang including a young man named Wu Rui were captured by the Vietnamese after their ship was blown off course while traveling from Hainan to Guangdong's Qin subprefecture (Qinzhou), after which they ended up near the coast of Vietnam, during the Chenghua Emperor's rule (1447 - 1487) .
The historian Li Ling mentions this in his simplified version "Sun Tzu" in the "Espionage" chapter, viz “When the Zhou flourished, Lu Ya was in Yin" followed by the sentence, “When the Yan State flourished, Su Qin was in Qi”. Li Ling believes that this "Sun Tzu" is not the same as the one handed down to later generations and is clearly the history of the late Warring States period.
Yu Huan also includes a brief description of "Zesan" which probably refers to the East African coast which was known to Greek and Roman authors as Azania, and what appears to be awareness of a route around Africa to the Roman Empire - "You can (also) travel (from Zesan) southwest to the capital of Da Qin (Rome), but the number of li is not known".
After Chen Sheng set up his capital at Chen County (陳縣; in present-day Huaiyang, Henan), he appointed Wu Guang as acting-'King of Chu' and ordered Wu to head west toward Qin proper.
The Xiongnu were a people who had migrated in and out of China proper, especially during times of turmoil, apparently at least since the days of the Qin.
The King, under the influence of several of his courtiers (many of whom were believed to be bribed by Qin emissaries), and heedless of the advice given by his most important minister, Lin Xiangru, was dissatisfied by Lian's defensive strategy: while Lian Po was in command, he set up camp, built forts, and stayed in them, not responding to any of the enemy's taunts or lures designed to get his army out onto the field.
The state of Zhao was defeated and absorbed by the state of Qin in 222 BCE, whereupon Zhao Tuo became a citizen of Qin.
Zhuanxu was subsequently claimed as an ancestor by many of the dynasties of Chinese history, including the Mi of Chu and Yue, the Ying of Qin, and the Cao of Wei.
From Qin to Tang, zhuqi had been the county site before it was combined with Huairen County (i.e. Ganyu County)