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Yonghuai
Yonghuai (咏怀, "singing of inner feelings") is a Chinese poetic genre named for the 82 five-character poems Wei-dynasty poet Ruan Ji (210–263) wrote in veiled protest under Sima rule.
Yongin Agriculture Theme Park
Yongin Agricultural Theme Park (용인농촌테마파크), formerly Wuri Land, is a municipal rural-experience park in Wonsam-myeon, Yongin, South Korea, opened September 2006, with insect and farming-culture exhibition halls, wildflower plaza, and farm programs for urban families.
Yongji
Yongji (永济市, Yongji Shi), ancient Puban, a county-level city under Yuncheng, Shanxi, on the Yellow River; 1,208 km², 373,500 residents (2024), GDP 17.22 billion yuan; home to Guanque Tower, Pujiu Temple, Five Old Peaks, and CRRC Yongji Electric. Distinct from Yongji County, Jilin.
Yongji power station
Yongji power station (永济发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant of at least 1,300 megawatts on Zhongshan East Street in Yongji, Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Yongjia Disaster
The Yongjia Disaster (永嘉之亂) was a series of internal and external calamities that struck the Western Jin dynasty during the Yongjia era (307–313) of Emperor Huai.
Yongjia School
The Yongjia School (永嘉学派) was a Southern Song Neo-Confucian movement in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, holding that learning must produce practical results for government and the economy.
Yongjie Hu
Yongjie Hu is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA known for experimentally observing high thermal conductivity in boron arsenide and for phonon spectral mapping techniques.
Yongkang
Yongkang (永康) names a Zhejiang county-level city, China's hardware capital and largest electric-razor exporter; Yongkang District of Tainan, Taiwan; and Yongkang Street, a famous food district in Taipei's Da'an.
YongKeun Park
YongKeun Park (박용근), also known as Paul Park, is a South Korean physicist at KAIST who pioneered holotomography, a 3D quantitative phase imaging technology, and cofounded Tomocube.
Yongkui Sun (孙勇奎)
Yongkui Sun (孙勇奎) is a chemical engineer and pharmaceutical scientist elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for green pharmaceutical processes.
Yongle Emperor (朱棣)
Yongle Emperor (朱棣, Chengzu), 1360–1424, third Ming emperor (r. 1402–24) who usurped his nephew Jianwen, moved the capital to Beijing, built the Forbidden City, sent Zheng He's voyages, and compiled the Yongle Dadian.
Yongle Emperor's move of the capital to Beijing
The Yongle Emperor's move of the capital to Beijing (迁都北京) was the transfer of the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing, decreed in 1420 and effective from 1421.
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Yongle Encyclopedia (永乐大典) is a vast Chinese leishu, or classified digest of quotations, compiled by order of the Ming emperor Chengzu and regarded as the largest leishu in Chinese history.
Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva
A Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva is a gilt-bronze image of the bodhisattva Vajrasattva made under the Ming Yongle emperor, bearing the six-character mark Da Ming Yongle nian shi.
Yongle gilt bronzes
Yongle gilt bronzes are gilt Buddhist sculptures, mostly brass, made in the imperial workshops of the Ming dynasty Yongle emperor (r. 1403–1424) as gifts for Tibetan lamas.
Yongle Palace murals
The Yongle Palace murals (永乐宫壁画) are Yuan-dynasty Daoist wall paintings covering about 1,000 square meters in Yongle Palace, Ruicheng County, Shanxi, built between 1247 and 1368 and moved to escape flooding in 1959.
Yongle Purge of Jianwen Loyalists
The Yongle Purge of Jianwen Loyalists (永乐诛戮建文旧臣) was the persecution of the Jianwen Emperor's officials by the Yongle Emperor, Zhu Di, after he seized the throne in 1402.
Yongle succession crisis: Zhu Gaochi vs. Zhu Gaoxu
The Yongle succession crisis (储位之争) was the Ming dynasty contest over which son of the Yongle emperor would succeed him, resolved in favor of Zhu Gaochi.
Yongle's purge of palace women
Yongle's purge of palace women (永乐后宫惨案) is an alleged mass execution of consorts and palace women under the Ming Yongle Emperor, known from Korean tradition.
Yongle's relocation of wealthy households to Beijing
Yongle's relocation of wealthy households to Beijing (徙富戶實京師) was a Ming dynasty policy, ordered in 1403, that forcibly resettled wealthy Jiangnan households in Beijing to supply labor and offices.
Yonglong tongbao
Yonglong tongbao (永隆通宝) is a rare large iron coin cast in the Min kingdom from 942, worth one hundred lead coins and cast at Quanzhou.
Yongming style
Yongming style (永明体) was a style of five-character Chinese poetry of the 480s and 490s, regulated by the four tones and named for the Yongming era of Southern Qi.
Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou (永明延壽, 904–975) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Wuyue state, abbot of Lingyin and Yongming temples in Hangzhou and author of the Zongjing lu.
Yongping Army
Yongping Army (永平军) was the name of several separate Chinese military commands, notably a Tang Henan command and a Later Liang command at Da'anfu, modern Xi'an.
Yongpingbao Ancient City
Yongpingbao Ancient City (永平堡古城) is a Ming dynasty military fortress in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan, China, built on a cliff controlling the Baicao passes.
Yongqun Zhu
Yongqun Zhu is a Chinese biochemist and structural biologist who studies how bacteria manipulate host cells, and a Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University's Life Sciences Institute since 2020.
Yongtai hydroelectric plant
The Yongtai hydroelectric plant, formally the Yongtai Pumped Storage Power Station (永泰抽水蓄能电站), is a 1,200 MW pumped storage station in Yongtai County, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, reaching full capacity in March 2023.
Yongtianfu
Yongtianfu (用田賦), levying taxation on the fields, was the final land tax reform of the ancient Lu state, enacted under Duke Ai and criticized by Confucius as too heavy.
Yongwon Choi
Yongwon Choi is a South Korean-born immunologist and osteoimmunologist, the Leonard Jarett Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2001, known for discovering TRANCE, later called RANKL.
Yongxi Northern Expedition and the Battle of Qigou Pass
The Yongxi Northern Expedition and Battle of Qigou Pass were the Song dynasty's failed 986 invasion of the Liao empire to recover the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.