He was the subject of a 64-chapter (in eight volumes) The Novel of the Prince of Qin of the Great Tang (大唐秦王詞話 Datang Qin Wang Cihua) by Zhu Shenglin (諸聖鄰) of the Ming Dynasty. The novel is also known as The Biography of the Prince of Qin of the Tang Dynasty (唐秦王本傳 Tang Qin Wang Benzhuan), Romance of Tang (唐傳演義 Tang Chuan Yiyan), and Romance of the Pr ...

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Dates and times are self-contained, and do not rely on any external context for their values. They are entirely numerical in representation, although certain specialized formats use roman letters to label fields. Every ISO date has exactly one possible unambiguous interpretation. These properties allow them to be truly international, without reliance on regional conventions, such as the names of the days of the week. Dates and times are organized from most to least significant digits. Each value (eg, year, month, day, ti ...

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ISO 8601 uses the 24-hour clock system that is used by much of the world. The basic format is hhmmss and the extended format is hh:mm:ss. hh refers to an hour between 00 and 24, where 24 is only used to notate the midnight at the end of a calendar date. mm refers to a minute between 00 and 59. ss refers to a second between 00 and 59 (or 60 in the exceptional case of an added leap second). So a time might appear as 13:47:30, or 134730. It is also acceptable to omit elements to reduce precision. hh:mm, hhm ...

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Combining date and time representations is quite simple. It is in the format of <date>T<time>. The <date> and <time> sections are any proper representation of the date and time created by following the standard. A common use could be YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm. 1981-04-05T14:30:30-05:00, for example. The standard allows the replacement of T with a space if no misunderstanding arises. This is commonly done for human communications. A date/time with timezone like 1981-04-05T14:30-05 woul ...

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He had: Wende-shunsheng Empress (文德順聖皇后), Zhangsun-shi (長孫氏) Xian Consort (賢妃), Xu Hui (徐惠) Consort Yang I (楊妃) Consort Yang II (楊妃) Yang-shi (楊氏) Consort Yin (陰妃) Consort Yan (燕妃) Secondary Consort Wei (韋貴妃) Wang-shi (王氏) He had fourteen sons (in order): Crown Prince Li Chengqian: son of Wende Empress Prince Chu, Li Kuan (楚王寬): son of one from the harem　　See also:

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Taizong was born in Lunghsi (in present-day Kansu. Taizong was known as a Hojen (胡人).) as the second son of Li Yuan, and was of one-quarter Xianbei (a people related to modern-day Turks) blood. The most capable and militarily inclined of Lee Yuan's many sons, Taizong showed his promise at an early age, helping to rescue Emperor Yang from a Turkic ambush and besiegement at the age of sixteen. In 616, the eighteen-year-old Taizong followed his general-father to his garrison-post at Jinyang, Shanxi, where he instigated his father to stage a ...

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The calendar practice prompting the coining of the term common era is the system of numbering years from the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. This system was devised by the monk Dionysius Exiguus in the year 525, who named it anno Domini. Two centuries later, the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede introduced a Latin term that is roughly equivalent to the English term before Christ to identify years before the first year of this era. The term "common era" is an alternative way of referring to this era. Using this nomenclature, ...

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According to Peter Daniels (a Cornell University and University of Chicago trained linguist): CE and BCE came into use in the last few decades, perhaps originally in Ancient Near Eastern studies, where (a) there are many Jewish scholars and (b) dating according to a Christian era is irrelevant. It is indeed a question of sensitivity. However, the term "common era" has earlier antecedents. A 1716 book by English Bishop John Prideaux says, "The vulgar era, by which we now compute the years from his incarnation." In 1835, in his b ...

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Changing dates expressed in BC terminology to BCE has given rise to some opposition. Arguments against the common era designation include: BC and AD have been used for such a length of time as to have become somewhat removed from their religious connotations. The newer BCE/CE system has not been used widely enough so as to have become commonly understood. "BCE" and "CE" are so similar that they may confuse readers. It downplays the prominence of Jesus in societies that have a Christian heritage. < ...

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Durations are represented by the format PnYnMnDTnHnMnS (nM may be replaced with nW to use the week format.) In this representation replace n with the appropriate number for the element that follows it (leading zeros are optional but may clarify ambiguous durations) The capital letters (P, Y, M, W, D, T, H, M, and S) are used as they are and not replaced. Thus P3Y6M4DT12H30M0S defines "a period of three years, six months, four days, twelve hours, thirty minutes, and zero seconds". Elements m ...

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