| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan | |
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| | Yanchang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | Yanjing, an old name for Beijing / capital of Yan at different periods | |
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| | Yanchuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy) | |
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| | surname Yan | |
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| | Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers | |
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| | Yichuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | surname Yan | |
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| | Ansai county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地｜革命圣地 | |
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| | surname Yan / name of a district in Henan | |
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| | mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor / Huangling county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Zhidan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yan'an, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, wartime stronghold of the communists from the mid-1930s until 1949 | |
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| | Ganquan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Luochuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces | |
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| | Fu county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Later Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (384-409) | |
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| | Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom) / fig. to have used up one's creative powers / to have writer's block | |
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| | name of an immortal / ancient place name / surname Yan | |
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| | Northern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (409-436) | |
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| | Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵｜颜渊 | |
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| | Mo Yan (1955-), Chinese novelist, winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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| | Lü Yan (lived c. 874), Tang dynasty poet | |
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| | Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | Southern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (398-410) | |
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| | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
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| | Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻｜荆轲 in 227 BC | |
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| | Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty | |
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| | old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) | |
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| | Yan'an, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi 陝西｜陕西, communist headquarters during the war | |
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| | Yan Ying (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as Yanzi 晏子 , hero of book 晏子春秋 | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) | |
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| | Ganquan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢 of 楚 in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕 as "promote the wise" | |
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| | Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi | |
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| | School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍｜邹衍 | |
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| | Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as 顏回｜颜回 | |
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| | Gao Yun (died 409) emperor of Northern or Later Yan dynasty | |
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| | Huangling county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Former Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (337-370) | |
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| | Sima Yan (236-290), founder and first emperor (265-290) of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉｜西晋, posthumous name 晉武帝｜晋武帝 | |
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| | Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences | |
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| | Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻｜荆轲 in 227 BC | |
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| | Zichang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Zichang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Ansai county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yichuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Baota or Pagoda district of Yan'an city 延安市, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yanchuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Yanchang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Zhidan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | variant of 愷撒｜恺撒, Caesar (emperor) used by Yan Fu 嚴復｜严复 | |
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| | another name for Yan Ying 晏嬰｜晏婴 or Yanzi 晏子 (-500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States 齊國｜齐国 | |
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| | Luochuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Aaron Yan (1986-), Taiwanese singer | |
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