* Qin Zhong ( 秦仲 ), Zhou Dynasty general

The 14 clan names are: ' Lian ' 廉 、' Xu ' 徐 、' Jiang ' 江 、' Qin ' 秦 、' Zhao ' 赵 、' Huang ' 黄 、' Liang ' 梁 、' Ma ' 马 、' Ge ' 葛 、' Gu ' 谷 、' Mou ' 缪 、' Zhong ' 钟 、' Fei ' 费 、' Qu ' 瞿.

Liu Qin was married to the daughter of one Fan Chong ( 樊重 ), and he and his wife had three sons -- Liu Yan, Liu Zhong ( 劉仲 ), and Liu Xiu.

Twenty years later, Feizi's great-grandson Qin Zhong was also killed by the Rong in 822 BC.

Qin Zhong ( Chinese: 秦鐘 ; Pinyin: Qín Zhōng ) is a secondary character in Cao Xueqin's classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

Qin Zhong is around 12 when he first meets Baoyu and only survives for a few years.

Zhineng absconds from the Water-Moon Priory and makes her way into the city to find Qin Zhong, but is chased away at the door by his father.

After giving Qin Zhong a severe beating, Qin Ye succumbs to anger and shock.

Qin Zhong, already just recovering from illness, dies from a combination of the severe beating, and overwhelming grief and remorse.

Liu Qin was married to the daughter of one Fan Chong ( 樊重 ), and he and his wife had three sons — Liu Yan, Liu Zhong ( 劉仲 ), and Liu Xiu.

Also similar to the Qin, traditional history has judged the Sui somewhat unfairly, as it has stressed the harshness of the Sui regime and the arrogance of its second emperor, giving little credit for the Dynasty's many positive achievements.

" It was this Legalist thought combined with strong leadership from long-lived rulers, openness to employ talented men from other states, and little internal opposition that gave the Qin such a strong political base.

During the greater part of China's first great period of unification, begun with the short-lived Qin Dynasty ( 221 BCE-206 BCE ) and followed by the centuries-long Han Dynasty ( 206 BCE-220 CE ), the shi form of poetry underwent little innovation.

We have little information about the early history of Qin during the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to the eminent sinologist Robin Yates, newly discovered Qin Dynasty legal codes show that officials were required to correctly calculate the exact amount of labor expected of all artisans ; if the artisan was ordered to perform either too much work or too little work, the official would be held accountable.

Most men had little or no loyalty to the Former Qin, and many were forced to join or joined only because of military rations and pay.

Scholarship on these texts naturally divides itself into two periods, before and after the " Qin Fire ", when many of the original texts, especially those of Confucianism, were burned in a political purge.

Maria Chang noted that since the overthrow of the Qin Dynasty, " millenarian movements had exerted a profound impact on the course of Chinese history ", cumulating in the Chinese Revolutions of 1949 which brought the Chinese Communists to power.

The Terracotta Army or the " Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses ", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.

# 12 volumes of Benji ( 本紀 ), " Basic Annals " or " Imperial Biographies ", contain the biographies of all prominent rulers from the Yellow Emperor to Qin Shi Huang and the kings of Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

Qin backed off, abandoned the presumptuous title of " Di ", and restored territory to Wei and Zhao.

Admitting the impossibility of saying " when or how the first Buddhist missions in China began ", Kenneth Saunders mentions Ashoka and the Fayuan Zhulin ( written 688 CE ) noting missionaries arriving in Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BCE ) China.

The Chinese proverb " The Friendship of Qin and Jin ", meaning an unbreakable bond, dates from this period.

It literally means " Great Qin ", Qin () being the name of the founding dynasty of the Chinese Empire.

All rulers of the Later Qin declared themselves " emperors ", but for a substantial part of Yao Xing's reign, he used the title " Heavenly Prince " ( Tian Wang ).

All rulers of the Western Qin declared themselves " wang ", translatable as either " king " or " prince.

", in reference to the Qin emperor.

Qin pieces are usually around three to eight minutes in length, with the longest being " Guangling San ", which is 22 minutes long.

In 206 BC, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, nephew of Xiang Liang, proclaimed himself " Hegemon-King of Western Chu " and promoted King Huai II to the more honorific title of " Emperor Yi of Chu ", but he had the emperor assassinated later.

" Han Buddhism and the Western Region ", in Thought and Law in Qin and Han China: Studies Dedicated to Anthony Hulsewe on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, ed by W. L.

The present name of the Qin pipa, which is " ruan ", was not given until the Tang Dynasty ( 8th century ).

In Chinese records, the Roman Empire came to be known as " Da Qin ", Great Qin, apparently thought to be a sort of counter-China at the other end of the world.

After Xiang's death, his nephew Xiang Yu overthrew the Qin Dynasty and proclaimed himself " Hegemon King of Western Chu ", while Xiong Xin was promoted to the more honorific title of " Emperor Yi of Chu ".

The Feast at Hong Gate, also known as the " Banquet at Hong Gate ", " Hongmen Banquet ", " Hongmen Feast " and other renditions, was a historical event that took place in 206 BC at the Hong Gate ( 鴻門 ) outside Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty.

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ", along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ", along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), ε Oph ( Yed Posterior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

The original form of the theorem, contained in a third-century AD book The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi ( 孫子算經 ) by Chinese mathematician Sun Tzu and later generalized with a complete solution called Da yan shu ( 大衍术 ) in a 1247 book by Qin Jiushao, the Shushu Jiuzhang ( 數書九章 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections ) is a statement about simultaneous congruences ( see modular arithmetic ).

Next, Qin armies launched assaults to the east, and later the south as well ; they took the Wei city of Daliang ( now called Kaifeng ) in 225 BC and forced the Chu to surrender by 223 BC.

The tribes of these locations, collectively called the Hu by the Qin, were free from Chinese rule during the majority of the Dynasty.

* A merchant from the Roman Empire called " Qin Lun " by the Chinese, arrives in Jiaozhi ( modern Hanoi ) and is taken to see Sun Quan, king of Eastern Wu, who requests him to make a report on his native country and people.

* The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ( 2008 )-The film starred Jet Li, the resurrected mummy called the " Han Emperor " and may be a reference to Qin Shi Huang.

In 288-287 the kings of Qin and Qi briefly called themselves " emperor " ( di ), before reverting to " king ".

One school advocated a ' vertical ' or north-south alliance called hezong ( 合縱 / 合纵 ) in which the states would ally with each other to repel Qin.

The other advocated a ' horizontal ' or east-west alliance called lianheng ( 連橫 / 连横 ) in which a state would ally with Qin to participate in its ascendancy.

The Buyi, who lived in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau since ancient times, were called Luoyue, Pu, Puyue, Yi, Yipu, Lao, Pulao, Yilai, etc., in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Much earlier, during the period of the Qin and the Han Dynasty, they were called Wulin Man or Wuxi Man.

At the fall of the Qin Dynasty a decade later, Zhao Tuo, using his position as the commander of the Nanhai Commandery, formed a state centered on Panyu called Southern Yue ( Nanyue ).

* The sovereign during the Zhou Dynasty called themselves Wang ( Chinese: 王 or 國王 ; wáng ), before the Qin Dynasty innovated the new term huangdi which would become the new standard term for " emperor.

As noted above in the section discussing Emperors, the sovereigns during the Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty who called themselves Di ( Chinese: 帝 dì ) and during the Zhou Dynasty who called themselves Wang ( Chinese: 王 or 國王 ; wáng ), was the title of the Chinese head of state until the Qin Dynasty.

In Water Margin by Shi Naian, another of the Four Great Classical Novels, five of the 108 outlaws at Liangshan Marsh-Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, Huyan Zhuo and Dong Ping-are called " Five Tiger Generals " of the Liangshan cavalry.

Surprised and enraged by such a bold act ( one that came terribly close to causing his demise ), the king of Qin called on Wang Jian to destroy Yan.

One instrument, called xiantao ( 弦鼗 ), with strings stretched over a small drum with handle, was said to have been played by labourers who constructed the Great Wall of China during late Qin Dynasty.

The Kingdom of Da Qin ( the Roman Empire ) is also called Lijian.

They resemble the people of the Middle Kingdom and that is why this kingdom is called Da Qin.

Before the Qin conquest of the last remaining six of the Seven Warring States of China, local styles of characters evolved independently of one another for centuries producing what are called the scripts of the Six States ( 六國文字 ).

The traditional forms in Qin evolved slowly during the Eastern Zhou, gradually becoming what is now called ( small ) seal script during that period, without any clear dividing line ( it is not the case, as is commonly believed, that small seal script was a sudden invention by Li Si in the Qin dynasty ).

Of his disciples, the most notable are Li Si ( prime minister to the first Qin emperor ) and the Han state royal Han Feizi, who developed the quasi-authoritarian aspects of his thought into the doctrine called the School of Law, or Legalism.

Qinqiang ( 秦腔, pinyin: Qínqiāng ) or Luantan ( 亂彈, pinyin: Luàntán ) is the representative folk Chinese opera of the northwest Province of Shaanxi, China, where it was called Qin thousands of years ago.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 265-420 CE ) it was known as Sin Yang, the Liang dynasty ( 502-557 CE ) it was called Jiang Zhou.