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Yang Yanzhao

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Yang Yanzhao (楊延昭) (958 – 9 February 1014), named Yang Yanlang (楊延朗) before 1012 and Liu Yanlang (劉延朗) before 979, was a military general in ancient China's Northern Song Dynasty. [1]

57 relations: Ambush, Baoding, Chai Rong, Chanyuan Treaty, Chinese armour, Chinese given name, Chinese surname, Commoner, Defensive wall, Emperor of China, Emperor Taizu of Song, Emperor Zhenzong, Empress dowager, Flood, Frontier, Hebei, Historian, History of China, History of Liao, History of Song, Huai River, Huainan, Invasion, Jiedushi, Jing County, Hebei, Khitan language, Khitan people, Li (unit), Liao dynasty, Liu, Maozhou, Hebei, Minister (government), Puyang, Reincarnation, Shanxi, She Saihua, Shuozhou, Sirius, Sixteen Prefectures, Song dynasty, Star, Taiyuan, The Generals of the Yang Family, Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty), Transliteration, Vanguard, Xiao Yanyan, Xu Zizhi Tongjian Changbian, Xushui District, Yang (surname), ..., Yang Wenguang, Yang Ye, Yang Zongbao, Yangtze, Ying County, Zeng Gong, Zhou (country subdivision). Expand index (7 more) »

Ambush

An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which combatants take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind hilltops.

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Baoding

Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing.

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Chai Rong

Chai Rong (柴榮) (27 October 921 – 27 July 959) or Guo Rong (郭榮), also known by his temple name Shizong (世宗), was the second emperor of imperial China's short-lived Later Zhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 954 until his death.

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Chanyuan Treaty

The Chanyuan Treaty in 1004-1005 was the pivotal point in the relations between the Northern Song (960-1127) and the Liao Dynasties (916-1125).

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Chinese armour

Armour in China was predominantly lamellar from the Warring States period (481 BC - 221 BC) forward, prior to which animal parts such as rhinoceros hide, leather, and turtle shells were used for protection.

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Chinese given name

Chinese given names are the given names adopted by native speakers of the Chinese language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora.

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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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Commoner

The common people, also known as the common man, commoners, or the masses, are the ordinary people in a community or nation who lack any significant social status, especially those who are members of neither royalty, nobility, the clergy, nor any member of the aristocracy.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Emperor of China

The Emperor or Huangdi was the secular imperial title of the Chinese sovereign reigning between the founding of the Qin dynasty that unified China in 221 BC, until the abdication of Puyi in 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution and the establishment of the Republic of China, although it was later restored twice in two failed revolutions in 1916 and 1917.

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Emperor Taizu of Song

Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927 – 14 November 976) personal name Zhao Kuangyin, courtesy name Yuanlang, was the founder and first emperor of the Song dynasty in China.

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Emperor Zhenzong

Emperor Zhenzong of Song (23 December 968 – 23 March 1022), personal name Zhao Heng, was the third emperor of the Song dynasty in China.

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Empress dowager

Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) (hiragana: こうたいごう) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese emperor.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Frontier

A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary.

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Hebei

Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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History of China

The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.

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History of Liao

The History of Liao, or Liao Shi (Liáo Shǐ), is a Chinese historical book compiled officially by the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), under the direction of the historian Toqto'a (Tuotuo), and finalized in 1344.

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History of Song

The History of Song or Song Shi (Sòng Shǐ) is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China that records the history of the Song dynasty (960–1279).

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in China.

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Huainan

Huainan is a prefecture-level city with 2,334,000 inhabitants in central Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China.

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Invasion

An invasion is a military offensive in which large parts of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering; liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory; forcing the partition of a country; altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government; or a combination thereof.

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Jiedushi

The jiedushi were regional military governors in China during the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Jing County, Hebei

Jing County or Jingxian is a county in Hengshui, Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

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Khitan language

Khitan or Kitan (in large script or in small, Khitai;, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is a now-extinct language once spoken by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century).

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Khitan people

The Khitan people were a nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.

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Li (unit)

The li (lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, is a traditional Chinese unit of distance.

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Liao dynasty

The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Liao Empire, officially the Great Liao, or the Khitan (Qidan) State (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), was an empire in East Asia that ruled from 907 to 1125 over present-day Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East, northern China, and northeastern Korea.

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Liu

劉 / 刘 (Liu, Lao, Lau, Low, Lauv, Lieh, Lieu, Liew, Loo, Lew, Liou or Yu) is a Chinese surname.

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Maozhou, Hebei

Maozhou is a town of Renqiu in east-central Hebei province, China, located north of downtown Renqiu, which can be accessed by China National Highway 106 and east of Baoding.

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Minister (government)

A minister is a politician who heads a government department, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers.

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Puyang

Puyang is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, People's Republic of China.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Shanxi

Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.

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She Saihua

She Saihua (佘賽花) is a legendary heroine from ancient China's Northern Song Dynasty.

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Shuozhou

Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.

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Sirius

Sirius (a romanization of Greek Σείριος, Seirios,."glowing" or "scorching") is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.

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Sixteen Prefectures

The Sixteen Prefectures, more specifically the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun or the Sixteen Prefectures of You and Ji, comprise a historical region in northern China along the Great Wall in present-day Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities and northern Hebei and Shanxi Province, that were ceded by the Shatuo Turk Emperor Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin to the Khitan Liao dynasty in 938.

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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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Star

A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.

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Taiyuan

Taiyuan (also known as Bīng (并), Jìnyáng (晋阳)) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China.

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The Generals of the Yang Family

The Generals of the Yang Family is a collection of Chinese folklore, plays and novels on a military family from the earlier years of imperial China's Song Dynasty (960–1279).

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Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty)

Toqto’a (ᠲᠣᠭᠲᠠᠭᠠ Toqtogha; Cyrillic: Тогтох;; 1314-1356), also called "The Great Historian Tuotuo", was a Yuan official historian and the high-ranking minister of the Yuan dynasty of China.

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Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways (such as α → a, д → d, χ → ch, ն → n or æ → e).

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Vanguard

The vanguard (also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

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Xiao Yanyan

Xiao Yanyan (953–1009) was a Khitan empress of imperial China's Liao dynasty.

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Xu Zizhi Tongjian Changbian

The Xu Zizhi Tongjian Changbian ("Extended Continuation to Zizhi Tongjian") is a 1183 Chinese history book by Li Tao which chronicles the history of Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127).

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Xushui District

Xushui District is a district under the jurisdiction of Baoding prefecture-level city, Hebei, China.

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Yang (surname)

Yang is the transcription of a Chinese family name.

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Yang Wenguang

Yang Wenguang (楊文廣) (died 1074) was a general in ancient China's Northern Song Dynasty.

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Yang Ye

Yang Ye (楊業) or Yang Jiye (楊繼業)According to he changed his name directly from Liu Jiye to Yang Ye in 979, changing both the surname and the given name.

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Yang Zongbao

Yang Zongbao (楊宗保) is a character in the Generals of the Yang Family legends.

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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 County

Ying County or Yingxian is a county of Shanxi, China.

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Zeng Gong

Zeng Gong (1019–1083), courtesy name Zigu (子固), was a Chinese scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China.

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Zhou (country subdivision)

Zhou were historical political divisions of China.

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Redirects here:

Liu Yanlang, Yang Liu Lang, Yang Liulang, Yang Six, Yang Yen-chao.

References

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

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