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unusual facts about manchu



Albazinians

The majority of its inhabitants agreed to evacuate their families and property to Nerchinsk, whereas several young Cossacks resolved to join the Manchu army and to relocate to Beijing.

Amban

After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, the Manchu amban was expelled by Mongol forces, fleeing to China proper via Russia.

Bible translations into Manchu

In 1833 the British and Foreign Bible Society sent George Borrow (1803–1881) to Russia to supervise the completion of the translation of the New Testament into Manchu.

Changbai Mountains

The range represents the mythical birthplace of Bukūri Yongšon, ancestor of Nurhaci and the Aisin Gioro Imperial family, who were the founders of the Manchu state and the Chinese Qing Dynasty.

Daughter of the Dragon

The film was made to capitalize on Sax Rohmer's then current book, The Daughter of Fu Manchu, which Paramount did not own rights to adapt.

Dr. Yen Sin

The novels are set in a dark, fog-shrounded version of Washington, D.C. resembling the Limehouse of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books.

Dragon Lady

However, a 1931 film based on Rohmer’s The Daughter of Fu Manchu, titled Daughter of the Dragon, is thought to have been partly the inspiration for the Caniff cartoon name.

Drums of Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu attempts to conquer the world by acquiring the Sceptre of Genghis Khan, which will unite the people of Asia under his rule.

Fu Manchu moustache

The Fu Manchu moustache derives its name from Fu Manchu, the fictional character who wears such a moustache in film versions of the stories written by the British/Irish author Sax Rohmer.

Fuyu County, Heilongjiang

Dawujia in Aihui District of Heihe Prefecture is another village where a few Manchu speakers can be found.

Guandao

The heaviest known "testing guandao", which resides in a museum at Shanhaiguan (山海關), the site of one of the gates on the Great Wall and a Ming Dynasty outpost that marked the division between territories controlled by Han Chinese and Manchu forces, weighs a whopping 83 kilograms.

Heishui Mohe

The Heishui Mohe or Heuksu Malgal also called Black-River Mohe (黑水靺鞨; Hangul: 흑수말갈; pinyin: Hēishuǐ Mòhé; Jurchen/manchu: sahaliyan i aiman 薩哈廉部), were the most feared among the Mohe tribes.

Huma County

Kumarsk, the predecessor of the present-day Huma, was a fortified Russian town in the Amur River region, founded in 1652 by Yerofey Khabarov and his companions, during his retreat from Achansk, corresponding to the present-day Khabarovsk, where he was besieged by Manchu and Daur allied forces.

Jiangshan Fengyu Qing

Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou are both capable military leaders appointed by Chongzhen to counter the Manchu invaders, but they meet with different fates — Yuan is executed by slow slicing for treason after Chongzhen believes false accusations that Yuan is plotting against him; Hong is forced to surrender to the Manchus after his defeat at the Battle of Songjin, and he aids the Qing forces on their campaign against the Southern Ming Dynasty later.

Joseph Clement Coll

His illustrations for books such as Talbot Mundy's King of the Khyber Rifles and Sax Rohmer's The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu were widely reprinted for many years.

June 10th Movement

In Manchu in 1920 Japan defeated and pushed back Russia far inland, then in 1921, in a deal to avoid further attacks from Japan, Russia executed all of the Korean freedom fighters that were living in in modern day Svobodny, Russia.

Kingdom of Tungning

A pro-Ming Dynasty state, it was founded by Koxinga (also known as Zheng Chenggong) (鄭成功) after the Ming government in China was replaced by the Manchu-ruled Qing Dynasty.

Kowtow

In 1636, Injo, king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty had to kneel three times on the ground and touch his head nine times on the ground (三拜九叩頭禮), to show his allegiance to Hóng Tàijí, the Manchu emperor.

Louis Antoine de Poirot

He was also in charge of the translations between Latin and Manchu for the diplomatic correspondence between Pekin and Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Matteo Ripa

Matteo Ripa (29 March 1682, Eboli – 29 March 1746, Naples) was an Italian priest who was sent as a missionary to China by Propaganda Fide, and between 1711 to 1723 worked as a painter and copper-engraver at the Manchu court of the well-known Kangxi Emperor.

Mongolian Revolution of 1911

The early Manchu rulers enacted various laws to isolate Manchuria from China proper (Eighteen Provinces) and Mongolia.

Nalan Xingde

Born in Beijing in the January of 1665, Nalan Xingde came from a powerful Manchu family that not only belonged to the Plain Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners, but was also related to royalty.

Ng Mui

She was traveling when her parents were killed in the Manchu capture of the Ming capital.

Pekingese

The Empress Dowager Cixi presented Pekingese to several Americans, including John Pierpont Morgan and Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, who named it Manchu.

Qitaihe

Qitaihe's history can be stretched back to 3,000 years ago during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, when it was inhabited by the ancient Sushen group, the ancestors of the Manchu.

Robert Elegant

Elegant is the patron of the Manchu Shih-tzu Society of Great Britain; he raises shih-tzu (Chinese lion) dogs and has been a devoted amateur sailor and owner of small craft for 50 years.

Sultan Said Khan

The Khojas were divided into two hostile groups that hated and killed each other - the ak taghliks (White Mountaineers) and the kara taghliks (Black Mountaineers), who deposed one of the last moghul khans, Ismail Khan, in 1678, with the help of invited Kalmyks (Dzungars), and put the whole country under the foot of future invaders, including Dzungars and Qings (Manchus), for gaining personal powers.

Sutra of Forty-two Chapters

In Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron, the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters is the key to the Manchu's treasures.

T. dubia

Thladiantha dubia, the goldencreeper, Manchu tuber-gourd, wild potato, thladianthe douteuse, a fieldweed and a rarely used ornamental plant species

Taiping Rebellion

Richard Berg created the boardgame Manchu which covers the entire rebellion.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

A young student named Liu Yude, later known as San Te, is drawn by his activist teacher into the local rebellion against the Manchu government.

The Castle of Fu Manchu

With his evil daughter, Lin Tang, his army of dacoits, and the help of the local crime organization led by Omar Pasha (whom Fu Manchu doublecrosses), Fu Manchu takes over the governor's castle in Istanbul which has a massive Opium reserve, to control the largest opium port in Anatolia, a fuel for his machine.

The Languages of the Peoples of the USSR

#Mongolic, Tungus-Manchu and Paleosiberian languages (Монгольские, тунгусо-маньчжурские и палеоазиатские языки)

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Sir Denis Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British Secret Service warns Egyptologist Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Grant) that he must beat Fu Manchu in the race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan.

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 film starring Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu.

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.

In his remote hideaway in the Chinese province of Gansu, the evil Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) plots the death and downfall of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world's most terrible criminals.

Wang Xiuchu

Wang's most significant accomplishment is his writing of the "Yangzhou shiri ji" (Account of Ten Days of Yangzhou) an account that details his survival of the notorious Massacre of Yangzhou that was perpetrated by the Manchu prince Dodo.

Wu Ta-hsin

Born into a Manchu military family known for their contributions towards preserving knowledge of the traditional Chinese martial arts, Wu Ta-hsin endured strict training from his grandfather Wu Chien-ch'uan, uncle Wu Kung-i and father Wu Kung-tsao.

Xianfeng

Xianfeng Emperor (1831 – 1861), Emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty

Yan Chongnian

#Wu Sangui, the Ming general who had opened the gates at Shanhai Pass to let 150,000 Manchu soldiers march into China proper, resulting in the annihilation of the Ming Dynasty, should be reevaluated for avoiding the mass bloodshed that may have resulted had he not surrendered.

Yellow Peril

A 1977 Doctor Who serial, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, builds a science fiction plot upon another loose Fu Manchu pastiche.

Yinzhi

Yinzhi, Prince Cheng (胤祉; 1674 - 1732), a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and third son of the Kangxi Emperor

Yinzhi, Prince Zhi (胤禔; 1672 - 1735), a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and eldest son of the Kangxi Emperor

Yixuan

Yixuan, Prince Chun (1840-1891), a Manchu prince and statesman of the late Qing Dynasty

Yunzhi

Yinzhi, Prince Zhi (胤禔; 1672 - 1735), also known as Yunzhi, a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and eldest son of the Kangxi Emperor

Yuyan

Born in Wangfujing, Beijing, Yuyan was the second son of Pucheng (溥偁) and Jinggui (敬貴), a lady of the Manchu Fuca (富察) clan.

Zhonghua minzu

The theory behind the ideology of Zhonghua minzu is that it includes not only the Han but also other minority ethnic groups within China, such as the Mongols, Manchus, Hmong, Tibetans, Tuvans, etc.


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