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Kaiyuan Subdistrict, Huozhou
Kaiyuan is a word from Chinese phonetic alphabet (pinyin) with multiple meaning due to different forms of Chinese characters. It may refer to: Places * Kaiyuan, Liaoning (开原), a county-level city in Liaoning, China * Kaiyuan, Yunnan (开远), a county-level city in Yunnan * Kaiyuan Subdistrict, Xiamen (开元街道), a subdistrict in Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian ** Kaiyuan District (开元区), former district in Xiamen, Fujian * Kaiyuan, Shulan (开原镇), town in Shulan, Jilin * Kaiyuan, Dingzhou (开元, 镇), in Dingzhou Other uses * Kaiyuan era (713-741), early in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty * ''Kaiyuan Za Bao ''Kaiyuan Za Bao'', or ''Kaiyuan Chao Bao'', ''Bulletin of the Court'', was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette, and a ...'', the Tang Dynasty's official publication during the Kaiyuan era * Kaiyuan coin, ...
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese characters, Chinese form, to learners already familiar with the Latin alphabet. The system includes four diacritics denoting tone (linguistics), tones, but pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written in the Latin script, and is also used in certain computer Chinese input methods for computers, input methods to enter Chinese characters. The word ' () literally means "Han Chinese, Han spoken language, language" (i.e. Chinese language), while ' () means "spelled sounds". The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by a group of Chinese linguists including Zhou Youguang and was based on earlier forms of Romanization of Chinese, romanizations of Chinese. It was published by the Chinese G ...
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Chinese Characters
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji''. Chinese characters in South Korea, which are known as ''hanja'', retain significant use in Korean academia to study its documents, history, literature and records. Vietnam once used the '' chữ Hán'' and developed chữ Nôm to write Vietnamese before turning to a romanized alphabet. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as their profound historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users. The total number of Chinese characters ever to appear in a dictionary is in the tens of thousands, though most are graph ...
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Kaiyuan, Liaoning
Kaiyuan () is a county-level city in the northeast of Liaoning, People's Republic of China, bordering Jilin for a small section to the north. It is under the administration of Tieling City, the centre of which lies to the southwest. Administrative divisions There are 3 subdistricts, 9 towns, and 9 townships under the city's administration. Subdistricts: * Xincheng Subdistrict (), Laocheng Subdistrict (), Xingkai Subdistrict () Towns: *Babao (), Qingyunbao (), Kaoshan (), Yemin (), Jingouzi (), Zhonggu (), Bakeshu (), Lianhua (), Weiyuanbao () Townships: * Chengdong Township (), Sanjiazi Township (), Songshanbao Township (), Majiazhai Township (), Lijiatai Township (), Shangbadi Manchu Ethnic Township (), Xiabadi Manchu Ethnic Township (), Huangqizhai Manchu Ethnic Township (), Linfeng Manchu Ethnic Township () Geography and climate Kaiyuan is situated in northeastern Liaoning in the southeastern part of Tieling City on the eastern bank of the middle reaches ...
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Kaiyuan, Yunnan
Kaiyuan () is a county-level city within the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. Geography The maximum sea level of Kaiyuan is 2,775.6 meters and the minimum is 950 meters. The annual average temperature is 19.9 degrees Celsius. Administrative divisions At present, Kaiyuan City has 2 subdistricts, 2 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;2 subdistricts * Lebaidao () * Lingquan () ;2 towns * Zhongheying () * Xiaolongtan () ;2 townships * Yangjie () * Beige () ;1 ethnic township * Dazhuang Hui () Demography It has a population of 299,000, of whom 156,000 belong to ethnic minorities, including Yi, Zhuang, Miao, and Hui. Ethnic groups The ''Kaiyuan City Almanac '' (1996:618) lists the following ethnic Yi subgroups. *Gaisu 改苏 (autonyms: Gaisupo 改苏泼, Luoluopo 倮倮泼; exonyms: Luoluo 倮倮); ancestors migrated from Luxi 泸西 and Mile 弥勒 **Mazheshao Township 马者哨: Sanjia 三家 ...
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Kaiyuan Subdistrict, Xiamen
Kaiyuan Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ... Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and has a registered population of 63,362. It is located in central Xiamen Island, north of the original Siming District and south of Huli District. It is named after a street meaning "Initiating the First (Year)". History In October 1945, Kaiyuan was created as a district (Kaiyuan District 開元區) along with Zhongxin District () Gulangyu District () and Heshan District (). In August 1966, it was renamed Dongfeng (lit. East Wind) District (), but this was reverted in October 1979. Finally, in April 2003, Kaiyuan and Gulangyu Districts were merged into Siming District. References厦门市历 ...
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Kaiyuan District
Kaiyuan Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ... Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and has a registered population of 63,362. It is located in central Xiamen Island, north of the original Siming District and south of Huli District. It is named after a street meaning "Initiating the First (Year)". History In October 1945, Kaiyuan was created as a district (Kaiyuan District 開元區) along with Zhongxin District () Gulangyu District () and Heshan District (). In August 1966, it was renamed Dongfeng (lit. East Wind) District (), but this was reverted in October 1979. Finally, in April 2003, Kaiyuan and Gulangyu Districts were merged into Siming District. References厦门市� ...
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Shulan
Shulan () is a county-level city in northern Jilin province, Northeast China. It falls under the administration of Jilin City, to the south-southwest. Administrative divisions Shulan is divided into 5 subdistricts, 10 towns, and 5 townships. The city is also home to a National Economic and Technological Development Zone. The following table shows the township-level subdivisions of Shulan: Geography The city spans an area of approximately 4,557 square kilometers in area, bounded by the Songhua River to its west. The Hulan River also flows through the city. The city has an average elevation of 740 meters in height. Shulan is home to a total of 318 species of animals which are classified as protected by the government, including sables, tigers, oriental storks, black storks, Asian black bears, yellow-throated martens, lynx, red deer, hazel grouse, Siberian cranes, swans, and various types of hawks and eagles. Climate The average annual temperature of Shulan 4.3  ...
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Dingzhou
Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and formerly called Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding, Hebei Province. As of 2009, Dingzhou had a population of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, southwest of Beijing, and northeast of Shijiazhuang. History Dingzhou was originally known as Lunu in early imperial China. A tomb about southwest of Dingzhou from 55BCE was discovered and excavated in 1973. It contained several fragments of Han literature, including manuscripts of Confucius's ''Analects'', the Taoist '' Wenzi'', and the '' Six Secret Teachings'', a military treatise. The identity of the tomb's occupant is unknown, but Chinese archaeologists have speculated that it belonged to Liu Xiu or Xu Xing. Dingzhou took its present name around 400CE when it became the seat of Ding Prefecture under the North ...
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Kaiyuan Era
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 712 to 756 CE. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. In the early half of his reign he was a diligent and astute ruler. Ably assisted by capable chancellors like Yao Chong, Song Jing and Zhang Yue, he was credited with bringing the Tang dynasty to a pinnacle of culture and power. Emperor Xuanzong, however, because of his interest in his two beloved concubines who were involved in governmental matters ( Consort Wu and later with her death; was succeeded by Yang Guifei) and was blamed for over-trusting Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and An Lushan during his late reign, with Tang's golden age ending in the An Lushan Rebellion. Background Li Longji was born at the Tang dynasty eastern capital Luoyang in 685, during the first reign of his father Emperor Ruizong (Li Dan) – but at that time, Emperor Ruizong's ...
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Kaiyuan Za Bao
''Kaiyuan Za Bao'', or ''Kaiyuan Chao Bao'', ''Bulletin of the Court'', was an official publication which first appeared in the 8th century, during the Kaiyuan era. It has been described as the first Chinese newspaper or official gazette, and also as the world's first magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio .... Its main subscribers were imperial officials. Every day the political news and domestic news were collected by the editors, and the writers transcribed it to send to the provinces. It was hand printed on silk, and appeared between 713 and 734. See also * '' Tipao'' * '' Peking Gazette'' * List of the earliest newspapers References Tang dynasty literature Mass media in Xi'an History of Xi'an 713 establishments 734 disestablishments {{Chin ...
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