* Zhong Kui: vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings

Other common activities include hanging up icons of Zhong Kui ( a mythic guardian figure ), hanging mugwort and calamus, taking long walks, and wearing perfumed medicine bags.

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The poster depicting Wei Zheng or Zhong Kui are used on single doors.

According to folklore, Zhong Kui travelled with Du Ping ( 杜平 ), a friend from his hometown, to take part in the imperial examinations at the capital.

In anger, Zhong Kui committed suicide upon the palace steps by hurling himself against the palace gate until his head was broken.

To repay Du Ping's kindness, Zhong Kui gave his younger sister in marriage to Du.

The bigger ghost then introduced himself as Zhong Kui.

So he commissioned the court painter Wu Daozi to produce an image of Zhong Kui to show to the officials.

Gong Kai, Zhong Kui Traveling ( c. 1304 ), Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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In 914, Gao launched his fleet and headed west on the Yangtze, trying to capture four prefectures that were previously part of Jingnan but which had become Former Shu territory — Kui ( 夔州 ), Wan ( 萬州 ), Zhong ( 忠州 ), and Fu ( 涪州, all in modern Chongqing ).

Historical maps in Ming or Qing Dynasty named the channel between Tsim Sha Tsui and Central as Chung Mun ( Pinyin: Zhong Men, 中門, lit.

* Huang Zhong ( died 220 ), or Huang Chung in Wade – Giles, leading military general of the Kingdom of Shu

* Wang Zhong, or Wang Chung in Wade – Giles, Chinese officer of the Three Kingdoms Period

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** Z-Chen 張智成 / 张智成 ( 1973 -; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Zhong Zhi Shin ), Singer ; Known as " The Little Prince of R & B "

Glossika divides the Min languages into eight: Northern Min ( Min Bei in Nanping prefecture in Fujian, but Jian ' ou dialect is the standard dialect of Min Bei ), Shaojiang ( eastern Nanping and surrounding areas ; in broader classifications treated as a dialect of Min Bei ), Eastern Min ( Min Dong in Fuzhou and Ningde prefectures ), Central Min ( Min Zhong in Sanming prefecture ), Puxian Min in Putian prefecture, Southern Min ( Min Nan in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen ( Amoy ) prefectures and on Taiwan ( Hokkien dialect ), and in eastern Guangdong province ( Teochew dialect ); Hokkien and Teochew are sometimes considered separate languages ), Leizhou ( on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong ), and Hainanese ( on Hainan Island ; in broader classifications Leizhou and Hainanese are treated as a Qiongwen language or as dialects of Min Nan ).

Jiang Wei quickly withdrew his forces to try to defend against the attack, and after some initial failures, was finally able to block off Zhong Hui's forces at Jiange ( 劍閣 ; in present-day Guangyuan, Sichuan ).

Zhong Hui considered retreating, but Deng Ai led a smaller detachment through a treacherous mountain pass descending on Jiangyou ( 江油 ; in present-day Mianyang, Sichuan ), defeating Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan and heading directly for the Shu capital Chengdu.

Regular script did not become dominant until the early Southern and Northern Dynasties, in the 5th century ; this was a variety of regular script which emerged from neo-clerical as well as from Zhong Yao's regular script, and is called " Wei regular " ( 魏楷 Weikai ).

However, the prominent warlord Cao Cao conquered Jing Province after Liu Biao's death in 208 ; Huang Zhong subsequently continued his service under this new lord of the land, specifically under Administrator Han Xuan in Changsha.

The most relevant among these last are Yiguandao ( and other sects within the Xiantiandao category ), Deism, Tiendery-Tientism, Yaochidao and Zailiism ; among the very new ones the most notable are the various Qigong-inspired groups, such as Falun Gong, Zhong Gong, Yuanji Gong and Wang Gong, and Christian-inspired Taiping-style sects such as Zhushenism, Linglingism, Fuhuodao, Mentuhui and Lightning from the East.

On one hand he recommended many other men of calibre to Cao Cao, including Xun You ( his nephew ), Chen Qun, Zhong Yao, Guo Jia and Sima Yi, creating a body of advisors around Cao ; at the same time he participated in several battles and major events of the era, often giving timely advice to his master.

The plan, however, had a fatal flaw — it assumed that Wei forces would siege the border cities, which, instead, Deng Ai and Zhong Hui ignored, and they advanced instead on Yang ' an Pass ( 陽安關 ; in present-day Hanzhong, Shaanxi ), capturing it.

* Middle dantian ( 中丹田, Zhong Dantian ): at the level of the heart, associated with storing life energy ( qi ) and with respiration and health of the internal organs, in particular the thymus gland ;

He later befriended the Shu general, Jiang Wei, and they plotted to rebel against Deng, starting a rebellion in 264, but the rebellion failed after Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei were discovered planning to execute several officers ; the enraged officers revolted and killed Zhong Hui at the age of 39.

Wen Zhong ( Chinese: 文种 ; Pinyin: Wén Zhǒng ) was an advisor in the state of Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period.

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

* Maitreya ( 彌勒佛 ), the next Buddha to succeed the historical Sakyamuni Buddha and who has come already according to I-Kuan Tao ; Maitreya was reincarnated as Lu Zhong Yi.

Her performances in Cantonese opera were quite different ; she brought in a mixture of Peking Opera, in which she performed a lot of footwork, as in Suet Ting Shan and Fan Lai Hua-Meeting on the Weedy River ( 蘆花河會母 ) in 1961, Giving birth on the bridge – the White serpent ( 斷橋產子 ) in 1962 and How Zhong Wuyan Conquered the West ( 鍾無艷掛帥征西 ) in 1962.

Yokohama Chinatown ( Japanese language | Japanese: Chukagai, Mandarin Chinese: Zhong hua jie ) in Yokohama, Japan

In Shanghai, Sheng lived a mansion constructed in 1900 which is currently the Japanese Consulate located at No. 1517 Huaihuai Zhong Lu.

Additionally, this is when the People's Republic of Da Han Zhong forms out of China.

For example, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty was posthumously named Zhong ( 忠 ), and thus is referred to as Prince Gongzhong ( 恭忠親王 ); Prince Chun was posthumous named Xian ( 賢 ), hence is referred Prince Chunxian ( 醇賢親王 ).

Phylogenetically, there is a primary split between an Inland Min group consisting of Shao-Jiang Min ( disputed ), Min Bei, and Min Zhong and a Coastal Min consisting of Min Dong, Pu-Xian Min, Min Nan, and Qiong Wen.

Like Zhuang, Zhong may also be the short form of Buzhuang, which Zhuang people use to refer to themselves, as the pronunciation of Zhong and Zhuang is similar, and Zhong was once a variant form of Zhuang in the Han Chinese historical books.

Even his father's name is unrecorded, although a folk tradition gives it as Sun Zhong ( 孫鍾 ).

However, little was documented about him in historical records and it is only known he was older than Guan Yu, when the latter contended " it was a shame to take an equal rank with that old soldier ( referring to Huang Zhong )".

Huang Zhong is featured as a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors, Kessen II and Warriors Orochi video game series.

However, there is a young Zhong Hui, who will be a threat to both kingdoms of Wu and Shu.

In another, " Qing Xia Ji " ( 情俠記 Pinyin: Qīng xiá jì, Record of the Passionate Hero ), the protagonist, Zhang, a valiant soldier with two warrior wives, is seduced by his younger friend Zhong, a remarkable arrangement as it is stereotypically the older man who takes the initiative with a boy.

It is not known when it became apparent that he was developmentally disabled, but in any case, after Sima Zhao died in 265 and Sima Yan subsequently forced the Cao Wei emperor Cao Huan to abdicate to him, ending Cao Wei and starting Jin ( as Emperor Wu ), he created Prince Zhong crown prince in 267, at age seven.

The cobble named “ Fig Tree Barberton ” is thought to be a stony or stony-iron meteorite ( mesosiderite silicate ), while “ Allan Hills ,” and “ Zhong Shan ” may be iron meteorites.

Ullambana or Zhong Yuan Jie is in fact on the fullmoon day ( 15th day ) of the 7th month ); the reason the rituals practiced today is on the 14th day is because it's customarily practised on the midnight of the 15th, very much like the celebration of Jade Emperor's birthday which starts on the eve of the ninth day of the first lunar month.

The cobble named “ Fig Tree Barberton ” is thought to be a stony or stony-iron meteorite ( mesosiderite silicate ), while “ Allan Hills ,” and “ Zhong Shan ” may be iron meteorites.

The earliest known commentary by another author is now preserved within the first Chinese translation of the Kārikā, known as the " Middle Treatise " ( 中論 Zhong Lun ), translated by Kumarajiva in 409.

Pang apologized to Zhong right away, but Zhong said to Pang, " Even I'm Guo Yuan's uncle, he is still a traitor of our country, why are you making apology to me?

# Zhongli 重黎 or 融黎 is identified with Zhu Rong 祝融 " god of fire ", which is a mythology from the southern state Chu, with variations appearing as two gods Zhong and Li.