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  Yang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yang is the one of the two opposing forces in Chinese philosophy, it associates with the bright Sun, represents masculine nature.
Yang is the transliteration of a Chinese family name
Yang is Experiment 502 in Lilo and Stitch: The Series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yang   (113 words)

  
 Yang (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yang is the transliteration of Chinese family name 楊/杨, also spelt as Yeung, which means poplar literally.
Yang Guozhong, a politician and Yang Guifei's brother
Yang Lu-ch'an (楊露禪, 1799-1872), whose family became the most well-known exponents of the Chinese martial art known as T'ai Chi Ch'uan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yang_(surname)   (243 words)

  
 Cultural Affairs Messages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ini adalah sebuah masyarakat perbudakan, karena para pekerja yang "bebas", yang sepanjang hidupnya bekerja untuk kaum kapitalis, hanya "diberi hak" sebatas sarana subsistensinya.
Partai kita adalah sebuah asosiasi dari para pejuang maju yang berkesadaran kelas, yang bertujuan untuk emansipasi kelas pekerja.
Namun kita mendirikan asosiasi kita, Partai Buruh Sosial-Demokrat Rusia, tepatnya untuk sebuah perjuangan melawan setiap agama yang menina bobokan para pekerja.
www.spc.org.nc /culture/contacts_messages.htm   (5782 words)

  
 KITLV - 1999 Daily Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
RUU tersebut tidak mengakomodir hak-hak masyarakat adat yang pada kenyataannya, selama ini menjadi korban kebijakan Departemen Kehutanan sehingga masyarakat adat mengalami peminggiran sistematis dari sumber daya alam turun temurun yang mereka miliki; 5.
Menolak RUU tentang Kehutanan yang diajukan pemerintah karena RUU tersebut tidak mencerminkan semangat reformasi yang sedang diperjuangkan oleh rakyat Indonesia saat ini; 2.
Kami dari Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara menyatakan bahwa RUUK versi Pemerintah ini sama sekali tidak dikembangkan dengan prinsip-prinsip keadilan yang berpihak bagi masyarakat adat.
www.kitlv.nl /daily/990528.html   (12506 words)

  
 Tai Chi for Health
Yang realized that this was a position with many advantages to himself and accepted the challenging assignment.
Yang smoothed the acrobatic and complex movements of Chen's Tai Chi and invented a form requiring steady, even movements resulting in a beautiful and elegant form set that is satisfying and soothing to the performer and the observer.
The secret to the Yang style's longevity is its remarkable effect on health and that it is a martial art that can be embraced by people of all age groups and of varying degrees of fitness.
www.midwoodmassage.com /gpage3.html   (509 words)

  
 Yin & Yang and the I Ching
Yang in turn meant "clear, bright, the sun, heat," the opposite of yin and so the lit, south side of a mountain or the lit, north bank of a river.
Although it is correct to see yin as feminine and yang as masculine, everything in the world is really a mixture of the two, which means that female beings may actually be mostly yang and male beings may actually be mostly yin.
The numbers 6 and 9, in turn, represent "old" yin and yang, respectively, and are called "changing lines." This illustrates an important aspect of the theory of yin and yang: Because the "Way of the Tao is Return," yin and yang, when they reach their extremes, actually become their opposites.
www.friesian.com /yinyang.htm   (5242 words)

  
 Wu Style Foundings and Designations - Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board
The family story is Ch'uan-yu was granted the surname Wu …Ç by the Imperial family (the Aisin Gioro) for recognition of Ch'uan-yu's military service as a cavalry commander for the elite Palace Battalion of the Imperial guard.
The story goes that both Yang Shao-hou and YCF were taught t'ai chi by their father from an early age, but a difference in personality between the two boys (and the fact that YSH was the older) led YCF to be somewhat rebellious in his attitude to the training.
Yang and Ch'en style, with their feet farther apart, have similar ranges, of course, they are achieved differently due to the footwork.
www.yangfamilytaichi.com /ubb/Forum4/HTML/000107.html   (3306 words)

  
 BabelStone : 'Phags-pa Script : Baijiaxing Mengguwen
However, it does include one surname (No.366) which is missing in both the 1330-1333 edition and the 1340 edition, but which is also present in the 1699 edition, from which we can deduce that the 1418 edition cannot have been derived from the 1330-1333 edition or the 1340 edition.
The 427 surnames in the 1340 and 1699 editions of the 'Phags-pa version of the Hundred Surnames are transcribed in the table below, together with their ancient and modern pronunciations, and their reading as given in the 'Phags-pa Rhyming Dictionary Menggu Ziyun 蒙古字韻.
Where the Chinese ideograph for a surname given in the 1699 edition differs from the ideograph given in the 1330-1333, 1340 and 1418 editions, the ideograph given in the 1699 edition is given in parentheses after the correct ideograph in the first column.
www.babelstone.co.uk /Phags-pa/Baijiaxing.html   (2849 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
Yang's rocket blasted off from a Gobi Desert base northeast of this city in China's northwest.
Yang's identity wasn't disclosed until he was racing toward orbit.
Yang, an astronaut since 1998, was picked for the flight from among three finalists.
uttm.com /stories/2003/10/15/tech/printable578285.shtml   (937 words)

  
 CRN | CRN Top 25 Executives 2005 | Yuanqing Yang, Lenova
But Yang (his surname), chairman of Lenovo, which late last year stunned the industry by announcing its $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division, has spent much of 2005 teaching those observers Chinese or at least the power that the Chinese may bring to bear on the IT industry.
Yang answered questions in English only after they were first translated for him in Chinese and declined one-on-one interviews with the media.
Yang certainly has had no lack of advice on the importance of the channel, including from one of his top competitors.
www.crn.com /sections/special/reports/top25.jhtml?ArticleID=173600047   (707 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / For China, space is the place
Mengniu is headquartered in Inner Mongolia, where Shenzhou 5 and astronaut Yang Liwei landed on Oct. 16 after a 21 1/2-hour mission.
Yang, a military officer, is a hot property, too.
His appearances in Shanghai were heavily publicized this week, and an estimated 130,000 people visited a two-day display of the Shenzhou 5 capsule at a science and technology fair.
www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2003/11/14/for_china_space_is_the_place   (692 words)

  
 Jordan: Chinese Personal Names
This confuses things when the surname and given name are not distinctive enough to be able to be sure which is which.
In Europe, where surnames are often written in capital letters, it is less of a problem: CHIAO Chien.
Surnames do not seem to go back quite to the beginning of Chinese history, and it is still open to debate exactly what the two words for surname, xìng and shì, meant in the Bronze Age.
weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/chin/hbnames-u.html   (1848 words)

  
 Tai Chi - History
hen Village, Chenjiagou ('Chen' - surname, 'Jia' - the family of, 'Gou' - gully or ravine, because the village lies in a gully not far from the Yellow River) is considered by all practitioners to be at the source and origins of taijiquan.
Yang Pan-Hou (1837 - 1892) the eldest son of Yang Lu Chan and the teacher of Wu Quan You (Wu Style).
Yang Shao Hao (1862 - 1929) is the oldest son of Yang Chien Hou.
www.geocities.com /ottawakungfu/200TaiChi002.htm   (1339 words)

  
 writing Chinese personal names
At least five thousand surnames have been used by the Han over the course of their history; only a few hundred, however, are in wide use today.
Since the order of surname and given name in a Han peraonal name is the opposite of that used in many Western countries, Han names often generate confusion among people of other nationalities.
As with general forms of address, surname or given name and form of address are written separately; unlike general forms, both parts should be capitalized.
www.pinyin.info /readings/texts/chinese_names.html   (2011 words)

  
 Shi Ji - Origin of Liang
The surname Liang originated in an area which was called the An Ding Prefecture during the Han Dynasty (206BC to 220AD).
There is another version of the story of the origin of the surname.
The second son, Kang, was given land in Xia Yang of Liang Shan (Han Cheng in Shanxi province), and established the Liang kingdom.
www.angelfire.com /co/leong/liang.html   (1061 words)

  
 History of Tai Chi Chuan
That is the principle of yin and yang.
Yang is said to have spent the next six years studying under Chen.
Yang Zhen-dou is the son of Yang Cheng-fu and is considered by many to be the fourth-generation inheritor of the Yang style, even though simple math shows that he was only 10 when his father died.
www.dotaichi.com /Articles/HistoryofTaiChi.htm   (5387 words)

  
 The Hitching Post | Helpful advice
Yang is depicted as a circle and Yin as a square sitting in the middle.
Yang (spirit) - Is light, day, maleness, activity, summer, the south, up and outer.
Yang is light and it seeks the dark.
thehitchingpost.co.uk /advice/index2.php?cID=153&...   (649 words)

  
 Who's Who in LOGH: Season 1 / Yang, Wen-Li   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Being of distant Chinese decent, Yang is the surname and Wen-Li is his given name.
Yang was born the son of a merchant just a few years after the construction of the Imperial Fortress Iserlohn.
After the battle at Astate, Yang was again promoted and given command of a newly commissioned fleet with an impossible mission: to conquer the Imperial Iserlohn fortress.
www.logh.net /who/w1yangwe.htm   (399 words)

  
 The Wu Style of Tai Chi
It is in fact representative of the Yang style Small Frame which was developed and taught by Yang Lu Chan, the founder of the Yang style, for the students in the Imperial Court.
The form practiced by Quan Yu was the Yang style Small Frame but way back then, the division into the major styles had not yet taken place and the art was simply known as the small frame of Yang Lu Chan.
He and Yang Cheng Fu would practice Push Hands together and Wu Jian Quan used to call him `Third Uncle' because in terms of lineage generations, Yang Cheng Fu was his senior by one generation.
taichited.tripod.com /html/wustyle.htm   (2400 words)

  
 phorum - Hakka Chinese Forum at Asiawind - Hakka surname YONG
Surname Yang is the 6th most popular surname in China.
The children of Tu were unhappy over the whole affair and they adopted YANG as their surname, in remembrance of their beloved former district that their ancestors once ruled.
Yang Zhen was born in the present day county of Hua Yang (µØ¶§¿¤) in Shaanxi province (ÔE¦è¬Ù).
www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=1&i=3713&t=3713   (2044 words)

  
 Yang
His surname, they tell us, was Kung, and he was a native of Wu- yang in P'ing-Yang, which is still the name of a large department in Shan-hsi.
He had three brothers older than himself; but when they all died before shedding their first teeth, his father devoted him to the service of the Buddhist society, and had him entered as a Sramanera, still keeping him at home in the family.
In many of these engagements the Manchus, whose chief weapon was the long bow, which they used with deadly effect, found themselves opposed by artillery, the use of which had been taught to the Chinese by Adam Schaal, the Jesuit father.
www.cooldictionary.com /words/Yang.word   (309 words)

  
 Wu Family History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Chinese surname Wu Wu means : name of a State in ancient China (province of Jiangsu); a Chinese surname.(Ancient time Wu meant big or great in Wu dialect).
Surname Wu was originated in an area called Yan Ling Prefecture during the Qin Dynasty (221BC to 207BC).
Yang means : the sun; bright; clear; masculine; positive.
www.wujiaquan.com /wufam.htm   (909 words)

  
 Chinese river poisoned by cyanide spill
The truck carrying 11 tons of liquid sodium cyanide overturned on a rutted road along a tributary of the Luohe River, said a county government official in Luoning, in Henan province about 500 miles southwest of Beijing.
Henan authorities erected a pair of dams to contain the spill, said the official, who gave only his surname, Yang.
Yang said the river flows into the Luohe, which provides drinking water to the industrial city of Luoyang.
www.uswaternews.com /archives/arcglobal/1chiriv11.html   (272 words)

  
 Lesson from China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Yang Ning was convicted of stealing more than $3.1 million, said an official of China's Supreme People's Court.
Yang was put to death Tuesday after the court rejected his appeal, Wang said.
Between 1992 and 1995, Yang used phony tickets and other tricks to defraud the Chinese flag carrier of $2.9 million, according to state media.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/740458/posts   (328 words)

  
 Han Dynasty @ National Geographic Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alternating pressures of yin and yang exist in a harmonious balance, like the waxing and waning of the moon, or the ebb and flow of the tide.
At some point yin and yang cosmology blended with another school of thought, which viewed the world in terms of five distinct elements.
It was thought that the alternate pressures of yin and yang occur within these five stages.
magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0402/feature1   (921 words)

  
 Asia Finest Discussion Forum -> Family names and their meanings.
The first historical ancestor of the Cheju Yang clan was a Shilla figure named Yang T’ang, but according to legend, his distant ancestor was one of three men who ascended from a cave on the north side of Cheju Island’s Halla Mountain.
The legendary founder of the Yang clan was named Yang Ŭl-la. Some days after their emergence, a box washed up on the shore of the island.
The first king of this dynasty, Wu Wang (1122—1116 bc), had a son named Tang Shuyu; a descendant of his was enfeoffed the state of Yang, and later descendants adopted the name of the state as their surname.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=703801   (1041 words)

  
 Alphabetical Index of Chinese Surnames
The Chinese Surnames appear in the Pinyin transliteration with numerical tones.
In addition, owing the the fact that the Chinese place their surname first and given name last, some people go by a last name that was originally their own or an ancestor's given name.
155 Cai4 (surname), Chai, Chua, Chye, Choy, Tsai
www.geocities.com /Tokyo/3919/atoz.html   (1456 words)

  
 GENEALOGE: 10/12/2003 - 10/18/2003
Yangs are the descendents of the Xi Zhou Dynasty.
His descent Jin Wu Gong was awarded the Yang city (Hong Dong of Shanxi Province) and bore the last name of Yang and Yang She (Goat Tongue).
These names differ from surnames, in that a surname is something that is passed on from parent to child and identifies the family.
hughw36.blogspot.com /2003_10_12_hughw36_archive.html   (4384 words)

  
 SPCNET.TV - Question about relationship of these characters from LOCH and ROCH
JY seems to like "Yang" [杨] too, but this appears to be mostly a family-thing limited to the Condor Trilogy, i.e.
The 33rd leader of the Ming Sect, Yang Dingtian, was originally a "Yang Guo" and "Yang Xiao" type of "Yang", before JY changed it to the "9-Yang" type [阳].
Probably her surname is changed on purpose for 'security' reasons, to put Li Mochou on a false track.
www.spcnet.tv /forums/showthread.php?t=11234   (949 words)

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