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4 unusual facts about Xiang


Xiang'an Railway Station

Xiang'an Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Xiang'er

The Xiang’er was most likely written in between 190 and 220 CE, a time when the Celestial Masters controlled a theocratic state in Sichuan.

The text available to us today was discovered in the Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in the early 20th century and was part of the trove that traveled to London along with Aurel Stein.

Zunyi Conference

At the Xiang river, Chiang Kai-shek had reinforced the KMT defenses.


Battle of Gaixia

In one of the ambushes, Xiang Yu's beloved wife Yuji (虞姬), who always traveled with his forces, was captured by Han troops.

C.L.I.F.

Andie Chen 陈邦鋆 as SSI Chao Kok Hung (赵国煌), Kwee Xiang and Xiao Yang's team leader

Candice Yu

In the late 1970s, Yu also began appearing on television, notably the Rediffusion TV series Reincarnated, and her appearances as Princess Xiang Xiang in the martial arts series Book and Sword.

Cornus piggae

Manchester, Xiang, and Xiang published their 2010 type description for C. piggae in the International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Dai Min

Dai Min is the granddaughter of General Dai Feng Xiang who supported Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in China’s Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty in 1911.

Duke Xiang of Qi

After a brief struggle between Duke Xiang's two younger brothers Prince Jiu and Prince Xiaobai, Xiaobai would win out and ascend the throne, posthumously known as Duke Huan of Qi.

Duke Xiang of Qin

In 766 BC, the 12th year of his reign, Duke Xiang died while campaigning against the Dog Rong in Qishan.

Fan Zeng

Fan Zeng died of illness on his journey home and was buried by Xiang Yu's followers at Pengcheng (彭城; present-day Xuzhou).

Fei Xiang

As Kris Phillips, Fei Xiang subsequently performed as a featured soloist with Sarah Brightman in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, a concert with full orchestra that was presented in over 40 American cities, including two performances at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

Gao Yu

He thus, with approval from Emperor Taizu, established tea trade offices at the Later Liang capital Daliang, as well as at Jing Prefecture (荊州, Jingnan's capital), Xiang Prefecture (襄州, in modern Xiangyang, Hubei), Tang Prefecture (唐州, in modern Zhumadian, Henan), Ying Prefecture (郢州, in modern Jingmen, Hubei), and Fu Prefecture (復州, in modern Tianmen, Hubei).

Gwei Lun-Mei

Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Gwei acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with Chou himself playing the male lead, Ye Xiang Lun.

Hunan cuisine

Hunan cuisine, also known as Xiang cuisine, consists of the cuisines of the Xiang River region, Dongting Lake, and western Hunan province in China.

Itazura na Kiss

In 2005, it was adapted into two Taiwanese dramas, It Started With a Kiss and its sequel They Kiss Again, both starring Ariel Lin as not-so-bright Yuan Xiang Qin and Joe Cheng as the genius Jiang Zhi Shu.

John W. Kluge Center

Past resident scholars have included Václav Havel, Klaus Larres, Xiang Lanxin, Melvyn P. Leffler, Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, Mort Kondracke, and Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick.

Keisaku

In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn; kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration.

Landscape and Urban Planning

Xiang (Global Institute for Urban and Regional Sustainability, East China Normal University).

Marquess of Beixiang

The Marquess of Beixiang, (trad. ch. 北鄉侯, sim. ch. 北乡侯, py bĕi xīang hóu, wg. Han Pei-hsiang-hou), sometimes referred to as Emperor Shao (少帝, literally "young emperor"), was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Shade of Darkness

Luo Xiang and his family including his niece Luo Xiao-wei (Ada Choi) become hungry ghosts, unable to be reincarnated until they have avenged themselves.

Sichuanese Mandarin

This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.

The vocabulary of Sichuanese has three main origins: Bashu (or Ancient Sichuanese), Middle Chinese and the languages of the immigrants, including Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang, Gan and Hakka, which were brought to Sichuan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Record of Tea

Cai Xiang was a native of Fujian; he was the first writer to report the tea spotting game of Jian'an (now Shuiji county in Fujian).

Tong'an District

In September 2003, 5 towns (namely Xindian, Xinyu, Maxiang, Neicuo, and Dadeng) in the eastern and south-eastern part of the then Tong'an District were split off, to form the new Xiang'an District.

Wu Hu Jiang

It consists of four members: George Hu, Benji (leader of the band), Shao Xiang and Si Wei Hong Zheng.

Xiang Jun

By the 2011 Chinese Super League season Xiang Jun would return to Shenzhen and the clubs new manager Philippe Troussier would give him a significantly larger role within the club, however by the end of the season the club were relegated.

Xiang River goddesses

Upon his sudden death during this journey, in the "Wilderness of Cangwu", near the headwaters of the Xiang River in the Jiuyi Mountains, both of his wives rushed from home to his body (or, in another version, to look for it, but were unable to find it), and then they wept by the river for days: their copious tears falling upon the bamboos by the river, stained them permanently with their spots.

Xizhong

Xizhong Township (simplified Chinese: 息仲乡; traditional Chinese: 息仲鄉; pinyin: Xīzhòng Xiāng) in Baoding, Hebei, China

Yuan Xie

It is not known when Tuoba Xie was born, but he was a younger brother to Emperor Xiaowen and was younger to all of the six other sons of their father Emperor Xianwen except Tuoba Xiang (拓拔詳) the Prince of Beihai.


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