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64 relations: Ancient Chinese states, Animism, Battle of Boju, Cai (state), Cao Wei, Chinese constellations, Chinese nobility, Chinese surname, Chu (state), Eastern Wu, Five Hegemons, Fuchai, Goujian, Gusu District, Heavenly Market enclosure, Helü, Japan, Ji (surname), Jiangsu, Jin (Chinese state), Jin dynasty (265–420), King Ji of Zhou, King of Wu, King Ping of Chu, King Tai of Zhou, King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, King Zhao of Chu, Liao of Wu, Old Chinese, Posthumous name, Predynastic Zhou, Qi, Qi (state), Qingji, Records of the Grand Historian, Seal script, Shanghai, Shenyin Shu, Shoumeng, Sima Qian, Spring and Autumn period, Sui (state), Sun Tzu, Surname, Suzhou, Taibo, Ten Kingdoms, The Art of War, Three Kingdoms, ..., Wa (Japan), Western Zhou, Wu (Ten Kingdoms), Wu Chinese, Wu Zixu, Wuxi, Wuyue, Yangtze, Ying (Chu), Yue (state), Zeta Aquilae, Zhengzhang Shangfang, Zhongyong of Wu, Zhou dynasty. Expand index (14 more) »
Ancient Chinese states
Ancient Chinese States were typified by variously sized city states and territories that existed in China prior to its unification by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BCE.
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Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Battle of Boju
The Battle of Boju was the decisive battle of the war fought in 506 BC between Wu and Chu, two major kingdoms during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Cai (state)
Cài (Old Chinese: *s.r̥ˁat-s) was an ancient Chinese state established at the beginning of the Zhou dynasty, rising to prominence during the Spring and Autumn period, and destroyed early in the Warring States period.
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Cao Wei
Wei (220–266), also known as Cao Wei, was one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period (220–280).
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Chinese constellations
Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese xīng guān).
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Chinese nobility
Chinese sovereignty and peerage, the nobility of China, was an important feature of the traditional social and political organization of Imperial China.
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Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities.
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Chu (state)
Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state.
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Eastern Wu
Wu (222–280), commonly known as Dong Wu (Eastern Wu) or Sun Wu, was one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period (220–280).
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Five Hegemons
The Five Hegemons refers to several especially powerful rulers of Chinese states of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (770 to 476 BCE), sometimes alternatively referred to as the "Age of Hegemons".
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Fuchai
Fuchai (reigned 495–473), sometimes also written Fucha, was the last king of the state of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.
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Goujian
Goujian (reigned 496–465 BC) was the king of the Kingdom of Yue (present-day northern Zhejiang) near the end of the Spring and Autumn period.
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Gusu District
Gusu District is one of five urban districts and the main district of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
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Heavenly Market enclosure
The Heavenly Market Enclosure (天市垣, Tian Shi Yuan), is one of the San Yuan or Three enclosures.
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Helü
Helü or Helu was from 514 to 496 BC king of the state of Wu toward the end of the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Ji (surname)
Ji is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Jin (Chinese state)
Jin (Old Chinese: *), originally known as Tang (唐), was a major state during the middle part of the Zhou dynasty, based near the centre of what was then China, on the lands attributed to the legendary Xia dynasty: the southern part of modern Shanxi.
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Jin dynasty (265–420)
The Jin dynasty or the Jin Empire (sometimes distinguished as the or) was a Chinese dynasty traditionally dated from 266 to 420.
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King Ji of Zhou
Jili was a leader of the Predynastic Zhou during the Shang dynasty of ancient China.
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King of Wu
King or Prince of Wu was an ancient and medieval Chinese title referring to ruler of the area originally controlled by the Gou Wu tribes around Wuxi on the lower Yangtze, generally known as the Wu region.
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King Ping of Chu
King Píng of Chu (died 516 BC).
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King Tai of Zhou
King Tai of Zhou or Gugong Danfu was a great leader of the Zhou clan during the Shang dynasty.
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King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou (1152 1056 BC) was king of Zhou during the late Shang dynasty in ancient China.
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King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the first king of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.
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King Zhao of Chu
King Zhao of Chu (died 489 BC) was from 515 to 489 BC the king of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Liao of Wu
Liao, King of Wu (died 515 BC), also named Zhouyu, was king of the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn period.
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Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
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Posthumous name
A posthumous name is an honorary name given to royalty, nobles, and sometimes others, in East Asia after the person's death, and is used almost exclusively instead of one's personal name or other official titles during his life.
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Predynastic Zhou
The Predynastic Zhou or Proto-Zhou refers to the state of Zhou that existed in the Guanzhong region of modern Shaanxi province during the Shang dynasty of ancient China, before its conquest of Shang in 1046/45 BC which led to the establishment of the Zhou dynasty.
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Qi
In traditional Chinese culture, qi or ch'i is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity.
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Qi (state)
Qi was a state of the Zhou dynasty-era in ancient China, variously reckoned as a march, duchy, and independent kingdom.
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Qingji
Qingji was a nobleman at the spring and autumn period.
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Records of the Grand Historian
The Records of the Grand Historian, also known by its Chinese name Shiji, is a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian after having been started by his father, Sima Tan, Grand Astrologer to the imperial court.
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Seal script
Seal script is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Shenyin Shu
Shenyin Shu or Shenyin Xu (? - 506 BC) was a general of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Shoumeng
King Shoumeng (d. 561 BC) was the 19th ruler and first king of the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
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Sima Qian
Sima Qian was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220).
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Spring and Autumn period
The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 771 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Period.
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Sui (state)
Suí was a Zhou dynasty vassal state in the Han River Basin in modern Suizhou, Hubei, China.
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Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi; 孫子) was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China.
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Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture).
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.
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Taibo
Taibo or Wu Taibo was the eldest son of King Tai of Zhou and the legendary founder of the State of Wu.
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Ten Kingdoms
The Ten Kingdoms was a period in the history of Southern China that followed the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907.
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The Art of War
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Spring and Autumn period.
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Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms (220–280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei (魏), Shu (蜀), and Wu (吳).
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Wa (Japan)
Japanese is the oldest recorded name of Japan.
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Western Zhou
The Western Zhou (西周; c. 1046 – 771 BC) was the first half of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.
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Wu (Ten Kingdoms)
Wu (吳), also referred to as Huainan (淮南), Hongnong (弘農), Southern Wu (南吳), or Yang Wu (楊吳), was one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China which was in existence from 907 to 937.
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Wu Chinese
Wu (Shanghainese:; Suzhou dialect:; Wuxi dialect) is a group of linguistically similar and historically related varieties of Chinese primarily spoken in the whole Zhejiang province, city of Shanghai, and the southern half of Jiangsu province, as well as bordering areas.
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Wu Zixu
Wu Yun (died 484 BC), better known by his courtesy name Zixu, was a general and politician of the Wu kingdom in the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BC).
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Wuxi
Wuxi is a city in southern Jiangsu province, China.
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Wuyue
Wuyue (Shanghainese), 907–978, was an independent coastal kingdom founded during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960) of Chinese history.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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Ying (Chu)
Ying (Yǐng) was a capital city of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of Chinese History.
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Yue (state)
Yue (Old Chinese: *), also known as Yuyue, was a state in ancient China which existed during the first millennium BC the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of China's Zhou dynasty in the modern provinces of Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu.
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Zeta Aquilae
Zeta Aquilae (ζ Aquilae, abbreviated Zeta Aql, ζ Aql) is a spectroscopic binary star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila.
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Zhengzhang Shangfang
Zhengzhang Shangfang (9 August 1933 – 19 May 2018) was a Chinese linguist, known for his reconstruction of Old Chinese.
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Zhongyong of Wu
Zhongyong was the second ruler of the ancient Chinese State of Wu according to traditional Chinese history.
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Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty or the Zhou Kingdom was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty.
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Gong Wu, Gongwu, Gou Wu, Gou-Wu, Gou-wu, Gouwu, State of Wu, Wu state.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_(state)
