Sima Niu, in contrast to Yan Hui, was from a hereditarily noble family hailing from the Song state.

* date unknown – Yan Song, Chinese prime minister ( d. 1568 )

** Yan Song, Chinese prime minister ( b. 1481 )

* Xue Song, general under the Yan and Tang Dynasties

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tanguts of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan ' an.

* As recorded in the Song Shi, the Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Yan Su reinvents the 3rd-century South Pointing Chariot, a mechanical-driven compass vehicle.

The " Three Giants of Yuanjia ," Bao Zhao 鮑照 ( d. 466 ), Xie Lingyun 謝霊運 ( 385 – 433 ), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 ( 384 – 456 ) are perhaps the most famous poets of the Song, each of them being credited as the originators of the three major literary trends to follow.

Leading contemporary visual artists include Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang, Cai Xin, Fang Lijun, Huang Yan, Huang Yong Ping, Kong Bai Ji, Lu Shengzhong, Ma Liuming, Ma Qingyun, Qiu Shihua, Song Dong, Li Wei, Christine Wang, Wang Guangyi, Wang Qingsong, Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, Yang Zhichao, Zhan Wang, Zheng Lianjie, Zhang Dali, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Huan, Zhu Yu, Yan Lei, Ma Kelu, Ding Fang, Shang Yang, Wei, Ligang ( modern calligraphist ), Yue Min Jun, Zheng Fan Zhi, Liu Fengzhi, and Zhang Yue.

Over the next century or so Shandong changed hands several times, falling to the Later Zhao, then Former Yan, then Former Qin, then Later Yan, then Southern Yan, then the Liu Song Dynasty, and finally the Northern Wei Dynasty, the first of the Northern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period.

However, the poetry scene was still dominated by the adherents to the Tongguang School ( named after the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns of the Qing ), whose leaders — Chen Yan ( 陈衍 ), Chen Sanli ( 陈三立 ), Zheng Xiaoxu ( 郑孝胥 ), and Shen Zengzhi ( 沈曾植 ) — promoted a Song style in the manner of Huang Tingjian.

Examples of this new socialist literature include The Builder ( Chuanye Shi 创业史 ) by Liu Qing 柳青, The Song of Youth ( Qing Chun Zhi Ge 青春之歌 ) by Yang Mo 杨沫, Tracks in the Snowy Forest ( Lin Hai Xue Yuan 林海雪原 ) by Qu Bo ( novelist ) 曲波, Keep the Red Flag Flying ( Hong Qi Pu 红旗谱 ) by Liang Bin 梁斌, The Red Sun ( Hong Ri 红日 ) by Wu Qiang 吴强, and Red Crag ( Hong Yan 红岩 ) by Luo Guangbin 罗广斌 and Yang Yiyan ( 杨益言 ).

Yan believed that the focus and intent of Wang's reforms was to strengthen the Song dynasty by persuading ordinary Chinese to give the dynasty their active support, instead of merely serving it.

** Consort Song ( 宋姬 ), bore Cao Yan

Some of the more well known stories and characters in Water Margin are clearly visible, including " Yang Zhi sells his precious saber ", " Robbing the convoy of birthday gifts ", " Song Jiang kills Yan Poxi ", " Fighting Fang La ", among others.

Yan Song (; pinyin: Yán Sōng ; 1480 – 1567 ), courtesy name: Weizhong ( 惟中 ), pseudonym: Jiexi ( 介溪 ), was a corrupt Ming Chinese Chief Grand Secretary who became a homeless pauper.

Under Yan Song, the nation fell into an era of moral decadence and corruption, where righteous officers were sidelined and the Ming national strength fell rapidly.

Yan Song was finally disgraced in his later years and died in poverty not long after that, while his son, the infamous Yan Shifan, was executed for collaborating with Japanese pirates who invaded Chinese coastal provinces at the time.

He was the subject of the Chinese opera called Beating Yan Song ( 打嚴嵩 Dǎ Yán Sōng ).

no: Yan Song

The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang ( 陰陽家 / 阴阳家 ; Yīnyángjiā ; Yin-yang-chia ; " School of Yin-Yang ") was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

In its early days, this theory was most strongly associated with the states of Yan and Qi.

Confucius ' favorite disciple was Yan Hui, most probably one of the most impoverished one of them all.

In the Central Plains War, Beijing was taken in June, 1928, from an alliance of the warlords Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.

Yan broke down in tears while talking of the loss of his home province of Shanxi to the Communists, and warned Li that the Nationalist cause was doomed unless Li went to Guangzhou.

After the Legislative Yuan rejected Chu, Li was obliged to choose Yan Xishan instead.

By this time Yan was well known for his adaptability, and Chiang welcomed his appointment.

Yan Xishan continued in his attempts to work with both sides, creating the impression among Li's supporters that he was a " stooge " of Chiang, while those who supported Chiang began to bitterly resent Yan for his willingness to work with Li.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

In 2006, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, the Xavier Tomb Monument and Chapel on the Shangchuan Island, in ruins after years of neglect under communist rule in China was restored with the support from the alumni of Wah Yan College, a Jesuit high school in Hong Kong.

Many cloth shops located on Wing On Street, also known as Cloth Alley, were moved to the Western Market while Eu Yan Sang, a traditional Chinese medicine shop, was moved near the Stag Building to continue business.

He was sent to the court of one of the emperor's son, Zhu Di the Prince of Yan, where he was called Sān Bǎo ( 三寶 / 三宝, or 三保 ) meaning ' Three Jewels.

Yan was placed under house arrest, her relatives were either killed or exiled, and her eunuch allies were slaughtered.

Xian was persuaded by Cao Cao ( 155 – 220 CE ), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and eastern Henan, to move the capital to Xuchang in 196 CE.

In 1941, when Li was twelve, Zhou sent Li to Yan ' an, where Li studied until 1945.

Although the Yan ' an period did answer some of the questions, both ideological and theoretical, which were raised by the Chinese Communist Revolution, it left many of the crucial questions unresolved ; including how the Chinese Communist Party was supposed to launch a socialist revolution while completely separated from the urban sphere.

Nankai Middle School was founded by Yan Xiu, a prominent scholar and philanthropist, and headed by Zhang Boling, one of the most important Chinese educators of the 20th century.

Yan was so impressed with Zhou that he encouraged Zhou to marry his daughter, but Zhou declined.

) Although money was a problem, he received a scholarship from Yan Xiu.

The Art of War was one of the most widely read military treatises in the subsequent Warring States Period ( 475 – 221 BC ), a time of constant war among seven nations ( Zhao, Qi, Qin, Chu, Han, Wei and Yan ) who fought to control the vast expanse of fertile territory in Eastern China.

Robinson composed the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag "), " Margie ", " Jazzola ", " Singin ' the Blues ( Till My Daddy Comes Home )", which was recorded by Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, and Eddie Lang, " Mary Lou ", " Pan Yan ( And His Chinese Jazz Band )", " How Many Times?

It was launched by Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Wang Jingwei.