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Songjiang Town

Index Songjiang Town

Songjiang (Chinese: t, s, p Sōngjiāng Zhèn; Shanghainese: Son1-kaon1 Tsen3), formerly romanized as Sungkiang, was a large town and the seat of Songjiang County in Shanghai. [1]

23 relations: Apotheosis, Chinese folk religion, Chinese language, Chinese postal romanization, Ever Victorious Army, Fujian, List of Mazu temples, List of water deities, Mazu, Ming dynasty, Pinyin, Shanghai, Shanghainese, Simplified Chinese characters, Song dynasty, Songjiang District, Songjiang Square Pagoda, Spirit screen, Taiping Rebellion, Tianfei Palace (Songjiang), Towns of the People's Republic of China, Traditional Chinese characters, Yuan dynasty.

Apotheosis

Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθέωσις from ἀποθεοῦν, apotheoun "to deify"; in Latin deificatio "making divine"; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chinese postal romanization

Postal romanization was a system of transliterating Chinese place names developed by the Imperial Post Office in the early 1900s.

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Ever Victorious Army

The Ever Victorious Army was the name given to an imperial army in late-19th-century China.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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List of Mazu temples

This is a list of Mazu temples, honoring Mazu - the deified form of the medieval Chinese girl Lin Moniang.

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List of water deities

A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.

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Mazu

Mazu, also known by several other names and titles, is a Chinese sea goddess.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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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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Shanghainese

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Songjiang District

Songjiang, is a suburban district, formerly a county, of Shanghai.

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Songjiang Square Pagoda

The Songjiang Square Pagoda or Songjiang Fangta, officially the Xingshengjiao Temple Pagoda, is a Buddhist pagoda in the old town of Songjiang in suburban Shanghai.

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Spirit screen

A spirit screen, also called spirit wall or screen wall, is used to shield an entrance gate in traditional Chinese architecture.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or total civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan.

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Tianfei Palace (Songjiang)

The Tianfei Palace,.

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Towns of the People's Republic of China

When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮). The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China currently classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with townships and ethnic minority townships (The State Council, 2014).

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Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters (Pinyin) are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Yehe Yuan Ulus), was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songjiang_Town

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