X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Xia


Tuyuhun

After Tuyuhun died in Linxia, Gansu in 317, his sixty sons further expanded the empire by defeating the Western Qin (385-430) and Xia (407-431) kingdoms.

The incident took away the central leadership and stripped the opportunity for the Xianbei to restore the Tuyuhun Kingdom, although later they were able to establish the Western Xia (1038-1227), which was destroyed by the Mongols.

Western Xia

Meanwhile, Emperor Shenzong stepped down from power in 1223, leaving his son, Xianzong, in his place.

However, it would not be until 1038 that the Tangut chieftain Li Yuanhao, Li Deming's son, who also ordered the creation of a Tangut writing system and the translation of Chinese classics into Tangut, named himself emperor of Da Xia, and demanded of the Song emperor recognition as an equal.

The same year, 1211, Li Anquan abdicated the throne, and subsequently died, after Shenzong seized power.

Immediately following Renzong's coronation, many natural disasters occurred and Renzong worked to stabilize the economy.

After Renzong's death, Emperor Huanzong of Western Xia came into power and Western Xia's power began to fail.


Book of Documents

Although Confucius invoked the pre-dynastic emperors Yao and Shun, and figures from the Xia and Shang dynasties, he complained of the lack of documentation prior to the Zhou.

The chapters are grouped into four sections representing different eras: the semi-mythical reign of Yu the Great, and the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The chapters are grouped into four sections representing different eras: the semi-mythical reign of Yu the Great, and the three ancient dynasties of the Xia, Shang and Zhou.

Difference set

It is found by Xia, Zhou and Giannakis that, difference sets can be used to construct a complex vector codebook that achieves the difficult Welch bound on maximum cross correlation amplitude.

Empress Dowager Xia

The future Empress Dowager Xia was from Kuaiji Commandery (會稽, roughly modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang).

Helian Chang

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.

Invincible Shan Bao Mei

During their guest appearance, Chen Qiao En and Ethan Juan reprise their roles from Fated to Love You as Chen Xin Yi and Ji Cun Xi respectively, as do Na Wei Xun, who plays Anson, and Jessica Song, as Chen Xin Yi's eldest sister Chen Qing Xia.

Jingzong

Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (1003 - 1048), first emperor of the Western Xia Empire

Larry Conklin

During 23 years of traveling and performing throughout Europe, Conklin shared the stage with number of artists including blues great Memphis Slim, the legendary folk guitarist John Renbourn, the Chinese harpist Xu Feng Xia, blues artist John Hammond and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Manglietia

Manglietia sapaensis, Vũ Quang Nam & Xia Nian-He & Sima Yong-kang in 2010 (in Hoàng Liên National Park, Sa Pa District, Lào Cai Province, Vietnam).

Peng Xiaolian

A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, Xia is a member of the so-called Fifth Generation, although her style differs from the one of other members of this group.

Qian Xuantong

Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, Qian was named Qian Xia at birth and was given the courtesy name Deqian (德潜).

Records of the Grand Historian

#12 volumes of Benji (本紀), "Basic Annals" or "Imperial Biographies", contain the biographies of all prominent rulers from the Yellow Emperor to Qin Shi Huang and the kings of Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

Shengsheng Zui Rulan

# "Níng Xià" (寧夏 "Peaceful Summer") (originally by Fish Leong)

Shi Jinbo

After graduating in 1966, Shi joined a team researching the Western Xia caves at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Gansu, and based on his translation of Tangut inscriptions in the caves he was able to identify a large number of caves as dating to the period during which Dunhuang was governed by the Western Xia regime (1036–1226).

Tarantallegra

On May 10, ahead of the album's release, Xia released "사랑이 싫다구요 (I Don't Like Love)", a single which is used as the soundtrack for Korean drama "Rooftop Prince".

The Heroic Trio

The Heroic Trio (Dung fong saam hap, TC: 東方三俠, pinyin: dōng fāng sān xiá) is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Johnny To, starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui as the titular trio.

Type 092 submarine

The 6,500-ton Type 092 Daqingyu (United States Department of Defense designation Xia-class, Chinese designation 09-II) submarine was the first ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine class (SSBN) deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and the first SSBN designed and built in Asia.

Western Xia tombs

The Western Xia capital city and the burial complex eluded early 20th century explorers of Central Asia, including Nikolay Kozlov, Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin.

XIA 1st World Tour Concert

XIA 1st World Tour Concert is the first solo concert tour by JYJ's member Kim Junsu in support of his debut solo album Tarantallegra, which was released on 14 May 2012.

Xia Gang

A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, Xia is a member of the so-called Fifth Generation, though unlike his classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige, he did not gain prominence until relatively later, in the late 1980s.

Xia Gui

During the reign of Emperor Ningzong Xia served in the Imperial Painting Academy (Yuhuayuan 廷畫院) in the same city, the way most major artists did at the time.

Sesshū Tōyō visited China in the 15th century and was influenced by Xia Gui, as seen in Sesshū's landscape scrolls such as the smaller Landscape of the Four Seasons in the Kyoto National Museum gallery.

Xia Huan

Xia Huan (Chinese 夏欢; born January 30, 1992 in Anhua, Yiyang, Hunan Province) is a successful Chinese female badminton doubles player.

In 2011 Xia Huan and Tang Jinhua won their first major title winning the Li-Ning China Masters Super Series 2011.

Xia Yeliang

Xia, a supporter of democracy and human rights, has been outspoken in the past going so far as to directly criticize Liu Yunshan, director of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China with respect to censorship and asking him, "how he thinks he has the power to control other people's thoughts."

Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project

A session of the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in 2002 was devoted to the report, where its methods were criticised by David Nivison, among others.

An international conference on chronology arranged for October 2003 was postponed due to the SARS outbreak, but never rescheduled.

Younan Xia

Dr. Xia received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987.


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