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The Legend Of Beggar King And Big Foot Queen (TV Series)
The Legend of Beggar King and Big Foot Queen () is a 2016 Mainland Chinese period comedy television drama starring Benny Chan and Ning Jing. Set in the 14th imperial century China, the drama is based on the life of Hongwu Emperor (played by Benny Chan) and Chen Youliang (played by Ji Chen). The story revolves around the founding emperor Ming - Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife Ma Xiuying (played by Ning Jing). Ma is the empress consort famous for her "big feet" because it was not bound like other women where foot binding Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known as lotus feet, and the shoes made for these feet were kno ... was the beauty standard for women. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Legend of Beggar King and Big Foot Queen (2016) Chinese comedy-drama television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Chan (actor)
Benny Chan Ho-man (born 7 October 1969) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. Education Chan attended . He graduated with a bachelor's degree in social science from Lingnan University. Acting career Chan's career in the entertainment industry began in 1994 when he appeared in a television commercial for Vitasoy. He later joined TVB and acted in many television dramas produced by the company. Some of his best-known roles include Duen Yu in '' Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'' (1997), the Monkey King in ''Journey to the West II'' (1998), and Na-tsa in '' Gods of Honour'' (2001). Since the early 2000s, Chan has become less active in Hong Kong, and has switched to working on mainland Chinese and Taiwanese television series. One of which is a series drama, The Holy Monk, as the main character, Holy Monk. The drama became popular in various countries. Music career Apart from being an actor, Chan is also a singer, and has released a number of albums. His best-known song is the theme song of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ning Jing
Ning Jing (; born April 27, 1972) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is best known for playing Milan in ''In the Heat of the Sun'' (1994), Danzhu in '' Red River Valley'' (1997), Angel in '' Lover's Grief over the Yellow River'' (1999) and Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang in the television series '' Xiaozhuang Epic'' (2003). Ning has received various accolades, including a Silver Shell for Best Actress, a Golden Rooster Award from two nominations, two Hundred Flowers Awards, and has been nominated for one Golden Horse Award. Early life Ning Jing was born in Guiyang, Guizhou. Her mother is Nakhi The Nakhi or Nashi (; Naxi: ; lit.: "Black people") are an East Asian ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China. The Nakh ..., and her father is Han. She has a younger brother, Shun Wenqi, who is a rock musician. Personal life In 1996, while shooting '' Red R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hongwu Emperor
The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (), courtesy name Guorui (), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398. As famine, plagues and peasant revolts increased across China proper in the 14th century, Zhu Yuanzhang rose to command the Red Turban forces that conquered China proper, ending the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and forcing the remnant Yuan court (known as Northern Yuan in historiography) to retreat to the Mongolian Plateau. Zhu claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming dynasty at the beginning of 1368 and occupied the Yuan capital, Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing), with his army that same year. Trusting only his family, he made his many sons feudal princes along the northern marches and the Yangtze valley.Chan Hok-lam.Legitimating Usurpation: Historical Revisions under the Ming Yongle Emperor (r. 14021424)". ''The Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Youliang
Chen Youliang (陳友諒; 1320 – 3 October 1363For those cross-referencing the Mingshi, in the old Chinese calendar 至正二十三年 refers to the year 1363 CE, 七月二十日 refers to 8月29日 or 29 August, and 八月二十六日 refers to 10月3日 or 3 October.) was the founder and first emperor of the dynastic state of Chen Han in Chinese history. He was one of the military leaders and heroes of the people's revolution at the end of the Yuan dynasty. Biography Chen was born to a fishing family in Mianyang (沔陽) in present-day Hubei. Some say he was born with surname Chen (陳), while others say he was born with surname Xie (謝). Vietnamese records say that Chen Youliang was the son of Chen Yiji (陳益稷) or Trần Ích Tắc, a Trần dynasty leader who settled in the Yuan dynasty. In his childhood, he grew up poor, and he and his family were relatively unsuccessful fishermen. Chen once served as a district official before becoming a general under Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji Chen (actor)
Ji Chen is an American nuclear physicist who invented an image analysis software application. Biography Ji Chen got his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and the same year was employed by Emory University where he invented an image analysis software program which can automatically calculate the prognosis of heart failure in patients by using left-ventricular dyssynchrony. In 2006 he was awarded the ''GE Healthcare Research Award'' from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and in 2009 got a grant from both the National Institute of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ... and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Currently he has written 40 articles and held 28 lectures. References 21st-century American physicists Living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump regimes ruled by remnants of the Ming imperial family—collectively called the Southern Ming—survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world. He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress Ma (Hongwu)
Empress Xiaocigao ( zh, t=孝慈高皇后, 18 July 1332 – 23 September 1382), commonly known as Empress Ma ( zh, t=馬皇后), was a Chinese empress consort of the Ming dynasty, married to the Hongwu Emperor and acting as his political adviser, exerting a large amount of influence during his reign. Early life Ma was from a poor background, born in Suzhou (宿州). Her personal name was known as Ma Xiuying ( zh, t=馬秀英) in legends and operas, but this was never mentioned in any official records, including the ''History of Ming''. It is noted that she did not have bound feet, which most women above the working class had in contemporary China. All that is known of her parentage is that her mother, who died when she was young, was surnamed Zheng, and that her father had fled with her to Dingyuan (in modern-day Anhui Province) after he had killed someone. Her father came into contact with and befriended the founder of the Red Turban army, Guo Zixing, who was both affluent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foot Binding
Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known as lotus feet, and the shoes made for these feet were known as lotus shoes. In late imperial China, bound feet were considered a status symbol and a mark of feminine beauty. However, footbinding was a painful practice that limited the mobility of women and resulted in lifelong disabilities. The prevalence and practice of footbinding varied over time and by region and social class. The practice may have originated among court dancers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 10th-century China, and gradually became popular among the elite during the Song dynasty. Footbinding eventually spread to lower social classes by the Qing dynasty (1636–1912). Manchu emperors attempted to ban the practice in the 17th century, but failed. In some areas, footbinding raised marriage prospects. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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