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  Anguo - China-related Topics AM-AP - China-Related Topics
Anguo (zh-cp c=安国 p=Āngu?), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (藥都), is a county-level city in the regional city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China, south of Beijing.
In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (祁州: Q?zhōu).
In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Anguo   (193 words)

  
  Anguo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anguo (Chinese: 安国; pinyin: Ānguó), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (藥都), is a county-level city in the regional city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China, south of Beijing.
In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (祁州: Qízhōu).
In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anguo   (124 words)

  
 China-Project.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
  Anguo has been known as China's "medicinal herbs capital" for over 1,000 years.
  Anguo herbal products are mainly exported to Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), west European countries, and Southeast Asian nations.
Herbs from Anguo make up 70 percent of exports to the ROK market.
www.china-project.com /en-end/aug13b.html   (169 words)

  
 Kathleen Hall Memorial Scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Kathleen Hall was born in Napier, New Zealand in 1896 and later moved to Auckland.
She became acquainted with the deplorable living conditions in the Hebei mountains and in 1934 she obtained the permission of her Bishop to leave the cities and set up her own cottage hospital in the mountain village of Songjiazhuang.
In 1937 she had to return temporarily to take charge of the hospital at Anguo on the plains and she was in charge there when the Japanese invaded.
www.nzchinasociety.org.nz /kathleen.html   (1231 words)

  
 100   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Portland Vase is believed to have been made in Alexandria some time between 20 BC and this year.
The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo, China.
Lions have become extinct in Europe by this date.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /100.html   (145 words)

  
 "The Search for Evidence:
Anguo had been born in 156 B.C. and for him to present the Old Text chapters and his commentary to the imperial court in the last years of the Wudi reign, circa 87 B.C., as the "Preface" attributed to him
Their conclusions had been that a member of Anguo's family after his death, and not Kong Anguo himself, had presented the Old Text Classics to the Former Han imperial court.
After the Tianhan ¤Ñ º~ era [100-97 B.C.], Kong Anguo presented them [to the Imperial Academy], but because of the witchcraft trials then rocking the court, they were not officially accepted.
www.admin.ias.edu /eas/tokugawa.html   (9493 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net - Persecution Cases in Hebei Province
Officers from the Anguo City Police Department and the 610 Office extorted more than 10,000 yuan from her family before releasing her.
Yang Xinli was detained at Anguo City Detention Center, savagely beaten and later sentenced to 18 months of forced labor.
He was arrested for broadcasting truth clarification videos and was tortured in Xushui for several months, after which he received a lengthy prison sentence.
clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2006/10/25/79282.html   (882 words)

  
 A Concise History of China, Chapter 3
He found a special one when he learned that one of Prince Anguo's sons, Prince Zichu, was being held hostage in Zhao, to end the petty wars between Qin and Zhao.
The elder sister suggested that since Huayang had no son, she should adopt the son of one of the royal concubines as her own, and that a loving son like Zichu would be the best bet; she also should do it soon, before old age took away her beauty.
The queen asked Anguo to let her adopt Zichu; Anguo agreed and gave her a jade disk with the promise engraved upon it.
xenohistorian.faithweb.com /china/ch03.html   (10406 words)

  
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 Young Norwegian Collage Students In Baoding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In fact, this village is an administrative unit of the County Anguo, a herbal city well-known in China.
People here have formed the habit of growing Chinese medicinal herbs for over 2000 years, thus they also established a giant herb market selling hundreds of different grasses and roots or seeds which are believed to have been used as the medicine by the Chinese people for thousands of years.
While wandering in the thousand-year-old street of Anguo, the foreigners are astonished to find the whole city full of all kinds of herbs.
www.baodingtravel.com /herb.htm   (281 words)

  
 The Illuminated Lantern: Principal Players of the Qin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
His machinations began in the fourtieth year of King Zhaoxiang (267 BC), when the crown prince died, and his second son, Lord Anguo, became the new crown prince.
He picked one of the younger sons, Zichu, and convinced the concubine to adopt him as his own, to ensure her place as Queen and her choice of children as successor.
They conceal the pregnancy, and when she bore a son, Zichu believed it was his and named him Zhao Zheng -- the boy who grew up to become Qin Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor.
www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/archives/principal_players_of_the_qin.php   (2251 words)

  
 Shiji - Chapter 85 - China History Forum, chinese history forum
One of the younger sons of the Lord of Anguo was named Zichu.
And then you will have no hope, with the oldest sons and the other princes spending their days and nights pushing themselves forward, to become the crown prince." Zichu said : "This is so.
His crown prince, the Lord of Anguo, succeeded him on the throne, Dame Huayang became queen, and Zichu was the crown prince.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=14716   (3073 words)

  
 Father Appeals for Son, Mr. Li Feng from Anguo City, Hebei Province, Who Is Ill in Prison | Clearharmony - Falundafa in ...
Li Feng is from Qudi Village, Anguo City, the Baoding Region in Hebei Province.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being tortured for several months for his involvement in the video exposing the persecution broadcasts that tapped into the local cable system.
Li Dongpu, Anguo City Police Department's present political commissioner, conspired with the Baoding Region Police Department to force Mr.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200701/37373.html   (1532 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Han Anguo": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Tian Fen was then appointed chancellor and Han Anguo, the former minister of agriculture, was made imperial secretary.
The king of Liang guarded his capital at Suiyang and dispatched Han Anguo, Zhang Yu, and others of his ministers as generals to hold off the armies of Wit and Chu.
When the Minister Han Anguo lost his official post, he sent some five hundred golden artifacts to the newly powerful Grand Commandant Dian Fen to...
amazon.com /phrase/Han-Anguo   (483 words)

  
 Practitioner Mr. Li Feng From Hebei Province Brutally Tortured; Family Asks for Medical Parole | Clearharmony - ...
Li Feng from Anguo City, Hebei Province was sentenced to 15 years in prison for broadcasting videos exposing the persecution.
Li Feng was arrested on October 4th, 2002 in Mazhuang Village, Anguo City, Hebei Province for broadcasting Falun Gong videos exposing the persecution on the local cable TV system.
He was tied in a metal chair for five days and five nights, during which time he was not allowed to sleep, and he was also brutally beaten.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200612/36774.html   (1511 words)

  
 Agenzia Fides - ASIA/CHINA - Hebei: two Catholic priests detained by police for five days are released but no sign of ...
The priests were arrested in Anguo, 200 km south west of Beijing in Hebei province as they were about to give talks at a Day of Study for local Catholic young married couples on Catholic moral theology and natural family planning.
On 13 April that same year he was sent to Gao Yang labour camp for three years.
Father Francis Cheng Xiaoli, ordained in 1991 for Anguo diocese (Hebei), which has no Bishop since the death of 80 year old Bishop Liu Difeng in Chengde prison (Hebei) in 1992.
www.fides.org /eng/news/2004/0405/29_2489.html   (401 words)

  
 Traditional Chinese Herbs: Quality Assurance: Plum Flower Unsulfured Herbs: Mayway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In 1996 we constructed our 24,000 square foot Mayway Anguo herb processing facility in Anguo (Hebei province), an ancient Chinese herb capital established during the Sung Dynasty and still a center for herbs in China today.
We work with growers, educating them about the importance of reducing the use of pesticides, the necessity of cultivating herbs to minimize the endangerment of plant species, the hazards of sulfur dioxide processing, and of quality control in general.
Once the herbs arrive at Mayway Anguo, sulfur testing, organoleptic inspection, and frequently microscopic inspection is used to ensure and verify that our Plum Flower® Brand herbs are the correct species and not commonly used substitutes.
www.mayway.com /general/qa_chinese_medicine_unwhere.htm   (269 words)

  
 China arrests two underground priests, Kung Foundation says
A May 16 foundation press release said Father Lu Genjun, 42, second vicar general of Baoding Diocese, and Father Cheng Xiaoli, 40, of Anguo Diocese, were arrested May 14 in Anguo, about 130 miles southwest of Beijing, according to a report from UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.
According to the release, Father Lu, who was ordained a priest in 1990, is being kept in a police detention center in Dingzhou, near Anguo.
Father Cheng, who was ordained in 1991, belongs to the Anguo Diocese.
georgiabulletin.org /world/2004/05/17/WORLD-5   (416 words)

  
 Baoding
Anguo was the fief of Wang Ling in the reign of the Han Emperor Liu Bang.
Besides, there are Anguo, "the Capital of Herbs"and Fuping Tianqiao Waterfalls, the largest waterfall group in North China.
The ballad "Baoding has three treasures, namely, iron ball, sauce made of fermented flour and potherb mustard"has been passed on from generation to generation for over 300 years.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-07/16/content_349142.htm   (982 words)

  
 Diocese of Anguo 安國, China
Vicar Apostolic of Anguo 安國 (China) (1937.07.01 – 1946.04.11)
Bishop of Anguo 安國 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1951.02.21)
Vicar Apostolic of Anguo 安國 (China) (1926.06.24 – 1937)
www.gcatholic.com /dioceses/diocese/ankw0.htm   (110 words)

  
 Shangshu: Venerable Documents - China History Forum, chinese history forum
The 15/16 extra documents said to have been found in Confucius' house walls, although mentioned in the Han, are quoted by no one, so we don't know what they said.
Unfortunately, the Tang dynasty chose to use the Kong Anguo version, and the authentic Old Text was thus lost because no one continued to study it.
The key question is whether Wang Su's forged Kong Anguo commentary is the same as the one Mei Ze presented to the Eastern Jin court, but we have too little information to be sure.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=13189   (1701 words)

  
 A Concise History of China, Chapter 3
This meant not only that there was no legitimate heir for Qin, but that the queen had no one to care for her when she got old, always a paramount concern in ancient societies.
The elder sister suggested that since Huayang had no son, she should adopt the son of one of the royal concubines as her own, and that a loving son like Zichu would be the best bet; she also should do it soon, before old age took away her beauty.
The queen asked Anguo to let her adopt Zichu; Anguo agreed and gave her a jade disk with the promise engraved upon it.
www.xenohistorian.faithweb.com /china/ch03.html   (10539 words)

  
 INDIAN CATHOLIC - NEWS SITE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Six Chinese were ordained together in Rome on Oct. 28, 1926, by Pope Pius XI to head the apostolic vicariates of Anguo, Fenyang, Haimen, Puqi, Taizhou and Xuanhua.
Four of these vicariates were created that year, while the other two, Anguo in Hebei province and Puqi in Hubei, were elevated from prefectures.
Apart from 2006 being the 80th anniversary of those ordinations, it also marks the 60th anniversary of the naming of the first Chinese cardinal and the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in China.
www.theindiancatholic.com /newsread.asp?nid=4674   (1025 words)

  
 PhotoVoyage | Nature's Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
A 4-year-old boy in Anguo, China chews astragulus as he watches a worker slice the root into thin strips.
The dried shavings will be sold in Anguo's busy marketplace.
Research shows that the root causes bone marrow to produce virus-fighting cells.
wpni01.auroraquanta.com /pv/naturesrx?img=1212   (53 words)

  
 Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition: what's in it?
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:04, Anguo wrote: > Michael D. Viron banged on their keyboard and produced the following > arrangement of letters: > - >Is there such a thing as a "Linux Mandrake 8.1 i586 edition"?
> - > - Anguo, > - > - By default, Mandrake's distributions are built for i586--the 'i586 > edition' - would be extraneous.
Usually the speed boost isn't large enough to make a real difference.
www.mail-archive.com /newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg75668.html   (283 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Kong Anguo": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Kong Anguo reports the opinion that what this means is that if one is not able to be sincere and serious, one...
Kong Anguo is the first commentator to identify the two, yet he says that Sima Niu's name is Li V, while the...
APPENDIX 477 Kong Anguo R -Ic- [9(of the early Han era is credited with a possibly apocryphal commentary on this sequence: All these...
amazon.com /phrase/Kong-Anguo   (542 words)

  
 Seeing Once Is Better Than Hearing For A Hundred Times
During the reign of the Emperor Xuan, a government official by the name of Qu Anguo was sent to inspect the area.
The people there requested for the government to relax restrictions, but Qu Anguo left without resolving the problem.
Qu Anguo led a group of soldiers to quell the Western Qiang people but they were completely defeated.
www.storycola.com /storypage/story910.htm   (335 words)

  
 Independent Catholic News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Chinese police have arrested two priests of the 'underground' Catholic Church, the United States-based Cardinal Kung Foundation said yesterday.
Fr Lu Genjun, in the city of Baoding, and Fr Cheng Xiaoli, a priest in Anguo country, both in Habei province, northern China, were arrested on 14 May.
The Foundation, which has its headquarters in Connecticut but maintains close links with the Catholic community in China, does not give the reason for the arrests but said that the two priests led courses in natural family planning methods and in moral theology.
www.indcatholicnews.com /charest.html   (192 words)

  
 Kashgar, China
"During the Yuanchu period (114-120 CE) in the reign of Emperor An, Anguo, the king of Shule (Kashgar), exiled his maternal uncle Chenpan to the Yuezhi (Kushans) for some offence.
The king of the Yuezhi became very fond of him.
If one wants to put on the throne a member of (Anguo's) mother’s family, I am Yifu's paternal uncle, it is I who should be king.”
creekin.net /c2757-n40-kashgar-china.html   (3596 words)

  
 Lü Bu (Fengxian) - Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi) Biography
Wu Anguo, an officer under Kong Rong, battled Lü Bu with his iron mace.
However, Lü Bu’s spear broke Wu Anguo’s wrist, thus he was forced to drop his mace and retreat.
The warlords led their forces to Wu Anguo’s rescue, and Lü Bu was forced to retreat to his line.
www.kongming.net /novel/sgyy/lubu.php   (4901 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net - Father Appeals for Son, Mr. Li Feng from Anguo City, Hebei Province, Who Is Ill in Prison
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being tortured for several months for his involvement in the truth-clarifying video broadcasts that tapped into the local cable system.
Li to eat something that appeared to be cotton candy at the time of his arrest.
You'd better go home and learn more about the law before you come to see us!" We pursued this matter and talked with the relevant personnel about it, including the 610 Office leader in Anguo City, who said to us, "Nobody cares about this matter.
www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2007/1/6/81486.html   (1548 words)

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