All articles starting with X

Xie Jin

Xie Jin (解缙) was a Ming dynasty scholar-official from Jishui, Jiangxi, who became one of the first grand secretaries under the Yongle emperor and directed the Yongle Encyclopedia.

Xie Lingyun

Xie Lingyun (谢灵运) was a poet and official of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties, remembered as a founder of Chinese landscape poetry; he was executed for rebellion in 433.

Xie Qian

Xie Qian (谢迁, 1449–1531) was a Ming dynasty statesman from Yuyao, Zhejiang, who ranked first in the palace examination and served as Minister of War and Grand Secretary.

Xie Siyi

Xie Siyi (谢思埸), Chinese diver born 1996 in Shantou, three-time Olympic springboard gold medalist (Tokyo 2020 individual and synchro, Paris 2024) and 2019 FINA Best Male Diver.

Xie Tiao

Xie Tiao (谢朓), courtesy name Xuanhui, was a Southern Qi poet and official from the Xie clan of Chenjun, a master of five-character verse executed in prison at thirty-six.

Xie Zhenye

Xie Zhenye (谢震业), born 1993, Chinese sprinter; Asian 200m record holder at 19.88, 100m best 9.97, Olympic 4x100m relay bronze at Tokyo 2020 and World silver 2015.

Oct 22, 2026

Xie Zhiliu

Xie Zhiliu (谢稚柳, 1910–1997) was a Chinese painter, art historian, and connoisseur from Changzhou, Jiangsu, who led the national survey of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy in the 1980s.

Xie Zicheng (谢子澄) was a Qing dynasty official, a juren from Xindu, Sichuan, who served as magistrate of Tianjin, defended the city at Shaozhikou in 1853, and drowned fighting the Taiping northern expedition.

Sep 25, 2026

Xiefeng guan (slant-sealed edict officials)

Xiefeng guan (斜封官, "slant-sealed officials") were Tang officials appointed through obliquely sealed black-ink edicts bypassing regular channels under Emperor Zhongzong, driven by Empress Wei and Princesses Taiping and Anle, and abolished in 710.

Xiegou Coal Mine

The Xiegou Coal Mine (斜沟煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Xingxian county, Shanxi, China, with a capacity of 15 million tonnes per year.

Xieqiao Coal Mine

Xieqiao Coal Mine (谢桥煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Yingshang County, Anhui, China, in production since 1997 and operated by Huainan Mining Group with a verified capacity of 9.6 million tonnes a year.

Xieqiao power station

Xieqiao power station (谢桥电厂) is an operating 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Yingshang County, Fuyang, Anhui, China, built as a pit-mouth plant burning coal from the adjacent Xieqiao Coal Mine.

Oct 21, 2026

Xiexin Tang

泻心汤 (Xiexin decoction), a family of five Zhang Zhongjing formulas from the Shanghan Lun treating pi syndrome (epigastric fullness), plus a three-herb dahuang-huangqin-huanglian version used to drain fire and stop bleeding.

Oct 22, 2026

Xieyi

Xieyi (写意) is a major technique of traditional Chinese painting in which concise, freely moving brushwork conveys a subject's spirit and mood, standing opposite the meticulous gongbi mode.

Xifeng Oil Field

The Xifeng Oil Field (西峰油田) is a large onshore oil field in southwest China's Ordos Basin, discovered in 2001 and operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Branch.

Sep 21, 2026

Xifeng Wu

Xifeng Wu is a Chinese cancer epidemiologist and dean of the School of Public Health at Zhejiang University, known for the finding that 15 minutes of daily exercise extends life.

Xiheishan power station

Xiheishan power station (华电新疆西黑山发电厂) is an operating 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Xiheishan Industrial Park, Qitai, Changji, Xinjiang, China, with two ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2024 and owned by Xinjiang Waneng Yinggema Power Generation.

Sep 21, 2026

Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin (林希虹) is a Harvard biostatistician known for the SKAT rare-variant test for whole-genome sequencing and COVID-19 modeling, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Xihoumen Bridge

The Xihoumen Bridge (西堠门大桥) is a suspension bridge in Zhejiang, China, opened in 2009 to link Jintang and Cezi islands with a 1,650 m main span, then China's longest.

Xihu Jiqiren (Westlake Robot) (西湖机器人)

Xihu Jiqiren, known in English as Westlake Robot (西湖机器人), is a Chinese robotics startup in Hangzhou founded in 2021 as Westlake University's first AI commercialization project.

Xihu Xinchen

Xihu Xinchen (西湖心辰) is a Chinese AI company founded in 2021 in Hangzhou, incubated by Westlake University, that develops diffusion-based multimodal language models for emotional companionship and mental health.

Xihuingo

Xihuingo (Tepeapulco), archaeological zone in Hidalgo, Mexico, 3 km north of Tepeapulco; Teotihuacan-linked Classic period site (200-650 AD) with the largest concentration of pecked crosses and the Pirámide del Tecolote.

XII Scripta

XII Scripta (Ludus duodecim scriptorum, alea) was a Roman race board game on three rows of twelve markings, played with dice and fifteen pieces; it evolved into tabula and is a relative, though not direct ancestor, of backgammon.

XIII (comics)

XIII is a Franco-Belgian thriller comic series created in 1984 by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance for Dargaud, about an amnesiac tattooed man implicated in a US presidential assassination; over 20 million albums sold, with Sente and Jigounov continuing the series and spin-offs XIII Mystery and XIII Trilogy.