Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (November/December 260 BC-September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name First Emperor. Having unified China, he and his prime minister Li Si passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing the unification, and they undertook some gargantuan construction projects, most notably the precursor version of the current Great Wall of China. For a ...

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At the time of the young Zheng's birth, China was divided into warring feudal states. This period of Chinese history is referred to as the Warring States Period. The competition was extremely fierce and by 260 BC there were only a handful of states left (the others having been conquered and annexed), but Zheng's state, Qin, was the most powerful. It was governed by Legalist philosophy and focused earnestly on military matters. Zheng was born in Handan (邯鄲), the capital of the enemy State of Zhao. He was the son of Zichu, a prince ...

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Qin Er Shi (229 BC - beginning October 207 BC), literally Second Emperor of Qin Dynasty, personal name Huhai, was emperor of the Qin Dynasty in China from 210 BC until 207 BC. Qin Er Shi was the son of Qin Shi Huang (the First Emperor of Qin), but he was not the original crown prince. In 210 BC, he accompanied his father on a trip to Eastern China, during which trip his father died suddenly. Under the advice of the chief eunuch Zhao Gao and prime minister Li Si, he forged a fake decree of his father, which ordered his brother, the heir Fusu, to com ...

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Shī Jīng (Chinese: 詩經), translated variously as the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes, is the first major collection of Chinese poems. It comprises 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs (or airs - feng (风); 74 minor festal songs (or odes - ya 小雅), traditionally sung at court festivities; 31 major festal songs (大雅), sung at more solemn court ceremonies; and 40 hymns and eulogies (sòng - 颂), sung at sacrifices to ...

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Xi Shi (西施, Pinyin: Xī Shī, c. 506 BC - ?) was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived during the end of Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient State of Yue. Xi Shi's beauty is said to be so extreme that she caused the fish to dip in shame while laundering her garments in the river. King Gou Jian of Yue, king of Yue, was once imprisoned after a defeat in a war by King Fu Chai of Wu, king of the State of Wu. The state of Yue later became a tribulator ...

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The Huang He listen ▶ (help·info) (Chinese: 黃河; Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Hé; Wade-Giles: Hwang-ho; literally Yellow River) is, at 5,463 km, the second longest river in China, after the Yangtze or Chang Jiang. The headwaters of the Huang He lie in the Kunlun Mountains in north-western Qinghai province, where the river originates at an elevatio ...

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam P ...

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Shi'a Islam - The Shi'a denominations Shi'a Islam - Status of a Shi'a Imam Shi'a Islam - The role of religious scholars Shi'a Islam - Shi'a and Sunni traditions
Shi'a Islam - Collections of Hadiths from Shi'a sources include Shi'a Islam - Shi'a Hadith
Shi'a Islam - Religious calendar Shi'a Islam - History of the Shi'a
Shi'a Islam - Historical Shi'a-Sunni relations
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Yuan-shi tian-zong, also known as the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning, is one of the highest deities of religious Taoism. He is one of the pure ones, the so-called San-qing and resides in the Heaven of Jade Purity. It is believed that he came to being at the beginning of the universe as a result of the merging of pure breaths. He then created Heaven and Earth. He once was the supreme administrator of Heaven but later entrusted that task to his assistant Yu-huang (also known as the Jade Emper ...

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Popular use of the word youth refers to a person who is neither an adult nor a child, but somewhere in between, scientifically referred to as an adolescent and, in the United States, commonly referred to as a teen or teenager. It is used to identify a particular mindset of attitude, as in "He is very youthful." The age in which a person is considered a "youth," and thus eligible for special treatment under the law and throughout society varies around the world. Commonly, a youth is defined as being somewhere between age ...

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This article is about the Han Dynasty strategist. For the Yellow Turban general, see Zhang Liang (Yellow Turban). Zhang Liang (張良, d. 189 BC) (meaning Zhang who is of good conscience), courtesy name Zifang (子房), was a descendant from a noble family of State of Han during the Warring States Period. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all officials of the State of Han (韩). Zhang Liang had once planned an assassination against Qin Shi Huang but the employed assassin mistakenly destroyed the d ...

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The 1931 Huang He floods (Yellow River Floods) are generally thought to be the deadliest natural disaster of historic times, and almost certainly of the twentieth century (when pandemics are discounted). Estimates of the number of people killed range from 850,000 to 4,000,000. Deaths caused by the flooding include but are not limited to drowning, disease, ensuing famines, and droughts. The Huang He or Yellow River has been prone to flooding due to the broad expanse of almost flat land around it. The 1887 Huang He floods had devastated the area, killing 900,000-2,000,000. ...

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The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent myths associated with the state. Fountain of Youth - The Fountain of Youth. A long standing myth is that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth when he traveled to present-day Florida in 1513, but the story did not start with him, nor was it unique t ...

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The word king has many meanings: Monarch, the head of state Germanic king for the origins of the word king and for the traditional kings of Germanic countries High king, King of Kings King (chess), king (playing card) King Kong, a fictional gigantic gorilla King Midget, a car King (band), an eighties New Wave band King size, a size of Bed King magazine, a lad mag for African-Americans Two broadcasting stations in the United States have the callsign KING:

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Xi Ling-Shi or Xilingshi, (Chinese: 嫘祖; Hanyu Pinyin: Léi Zǔ), is a legendary Chinese empress—wife of the Yellow Emperor. According to tradition, she discovered silk and invented the silk loom in the 28th century BC. Xi Ling-Shi discovered silkworms while on a walk investigating damage to the emperor's mulberry trees. However there are different accounts of ex ...

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Sunni fatwas on Shi'as show the how the Sunni view of Shi'a is documented in legal rulings. The following famous Sunni scholars of early Islam are known to have openly considered the Shi'a as "Kafir": [citation needed] Malik ibn Anas, See: al-sanat lilkhilal السنة للخلال 2/557 Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man — "and those who doubt shia as kufr are kafirs" Imam Shafi'i — "closer to kufr than belief" Ibn Hanbal al-Bukhari — "do ...

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There are Additional Shi'a doctrines besides the Roots of Religion and the Branches of Religion. Additional Shi'a doctrines - Shared by all Muslim. Additional Shi'a doctrines - Hijab. wearing of the veil for females (Arabic: Hijab). Additional Shi'a doctrines - Leadership. Islamic leadership. Islam Additional Shi'a doctrines - More distinct in usage. Add ...

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When playing qin, there are many aesthetics involved. Firstly is the whole aspect of musicality. Take, for example, the second section of "Pingsha Luoyan." The first few bars contain a rou vibrato followed by a phase of sliding up and down the string, even when the sound has already become inaudible. For the musically trained, this is not seen as music. Normally, they would pluck the string very lightly to create a very quiet sound. For the qin player, this plucking is a 'forced pluck', trying to force a sound out of the string instea ...

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In 209 BC Chen Sheng led an uprising against Qin Dynasty and assumed the title "King of Great Chu." Pei was in old Chu territory. At the time that Liu released the prisoners he was to escort to Mount Li and then became a fugitive himself, Xiao He was serving as a secretary to the county magistrate of Pei County. When Chen Sheng started his rebellion, the county magistrate considered joining the rebellion, and at the advice of Xiao and Cao Can (曹參) (who was then a county police official), he sent Liu's brother-in-law Fan Ceng (樊噌) to ...

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Xiang then prepared an invasion against the heart of Qin, to wipe Qin out. He was unaware that, by this point, Liu Bang had already proceeded deep into Qin and was near its capital Xianyang (near modern Xi'an, Shaanxi). Xianyang and Qin's final ruler, Ying Ying, surrendered to Liu's forces in winter 207 BC, ending Qin Dynasty. When Xiang arrived at Hangu Pass (函谷關, in modern Sanmenxia, Henan), the gateway into Qin proper, he found the pass guarded by Liu's forces, and in anger, he sieged it, even though Liu was a fellow Chu general. He ...

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