Unstained (175.4*89cm) 1984 by Deng Bai 邓白

Mainland China

Wuhua, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, China

The Memorial Hall of General Deng Shichang & Haizhu Museum

2 Longxianli, Baogang Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou (510220). Source:english.gz.gov.cn

Famous People in History

Deng Man Hou.

The twenty second King of the Shang Dynasty (°Ó´Â 1783BC to 1135BC) was Shang King Wu Ding (°ÓªZ¤B¤ý) who reigned from 1324BC to 1275BC. Shang King Wu Ding and gave his uncle named Zi Man (¤l°Ò) the authority to administer a district called Deng (¾H present day Deng Xian ¾H¿¤ in Henan province ªe«n¬Ù). Shang King Wu Ding awarded upon his uncle the hereditary title of Hou («J) or Marquis. As the district was called Deng, Shang King Wu Ding bestowed upon his uncle the surname of Deng. Zi Man was then known as Deng Man Hou. Deng Man Hou had a son by the name of Chao (®Ð) whom he surnamed Deng. From then on all his descendants inherited the surname Deng.

In 1122BC Zhou King Wu (©PªZ¤ý) destroyed the Shang Dynasty (°Ó´Â 1783BC to 1122BC) and established the Zhou Dynasty (©P´Â 1134BC to 256BC). During that time the ruler of Deng was Deng Zhong (¾H©¾) who was the seventh ruler of Deng district. Zhou King Wu rewarded him the hereditary title of Hou for his loyalty to the Zhou Court. The rank of the title was the same as that during the preceding Shang Dynasty. Distrct of Deng was upgraded to Statehood which was then known as the State of Deng (¾H°ê).

Source: Hakka surname THIEN

Deng Yu (25-220 A.D.). "My 47th generation ancestor Deng Yu was a renowned general in the Eastern Han period (25AD to 220 AD) and there is a biography of him in 16th scroll of Eastern Han Canon of History. According to our genealogy, he had 3 wives and 13 sons, and lived to the age of 57."

Deng Clan Genealogy -http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3998/deng.htm

"It is said that Duke Deng Yu once lived in seclusion here during the reign of the Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and as the highest official position Deng Yu took was the Commander-in-chief, the hill was called the Commander-in-chief Deng⦣128;™s Hill."

http://www.suzhou.gov.cn/English/Travel/18.shtml

 

"Dengsitu Temple situated on Dengwei Hill, Wu County, Jiangsu Province was used to offer sacrifices to Deng Yu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Inside the temple are four cypresses, respectively named "Qing" (clear), "Qi" (grotesque), "Gu" (ancient) and "Sheng" (holy). Cypresses of this kind are rarely seen elsewhere."

Scenic Spots in Suzhou -http://www.seu.edu.cn/EC/english/jssz.htm

邓禹 Deng Yu (2-58): http://www.ndcnc.gov.cn/datalib/2001/MartialCyclopaedic/DL/DL-3122/

"Deng Sui (鄧綏) (AD 81 - 121), formally Empress Hexi (和熹皇后, literally "the moderate and pacifying empress") was an empress during Han Dynasty. She was Emperor He's second wife. She later, as empress dowager, served as regent for his son Emperor Shang and nephew Emperor An, and was regarded as an able and diligent administrator. She was perhaps the last effective ruler of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the subsequent emperors and empresses dowager were largely incompetent rulers. During her regency, there were natural disasters and wars with Xiongnu and Qiang, but she was able to remedy the disasters and largely quell the wars. She was also praised for her attention to criminal justice.

Deng Sui was born in 81. Her father Deng Xun (鄧訓) was a son of Emperor Guangwu's prime minister Deng Yu. Her mother, Lady Yin, was a daughter of a cousin of Emperor Guangwu's wife Empress Yin Lihua. She was selected to be in the palace in 95, and she became a consort to Emperor He in 96. She was 15, and he was 17."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Deng_Sui

Deng Mengnu 鄧猛女 (116-150 AD),Empress of Emperor Huan of Later Han. "Daughter of Deng Xiang and his wife Xuan, whose maiden surname is unknown, the Lady Deng was selected into the harem of Emperor Huan in 153 or 154; she was at that time probably thirteen sui, the most common age for such entry, and was therefore born about 141. First appointed a Chosen Woman, lowest of the three ranks of imperial concubines, she was extremely beautiful, she attracted the attention and favours of the emperor, and she was swiftly promoted to be an Honoured Lady, highest rank below the empress."

"The Lady's father Deng Xiang was a great-nephew of the Empress-Dowager Deng. The family had been respected and powerful in Nanyang commandery, the southwest of present-day Henan, for many generations and Deng Xiang's ancestor Deng Yu was a leading supporter of the founding Emperor Guangwu of Later Han."

Ladies of the Court of Emperor Huan of Han: http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/huan.html

"Deng Ai, a talented strategist (197-264 A.D.). He styled himself Shizai. He was from Jiyang, Yiyang Prefecture (northeast of the Xinye County, Henan Province today). He was a famous military general of the Wei State of the period of the Three Kingdoms, who helped the Simashi fight east and west and made great merits."

Famous Persons of Henan Province -http://china-window.com/Henan_w/culture/minrene.htm

"In the 260s, after the Sima family had established control of the government of Wei, they planned the attack on Shu-Han. In the autumn of 263 they captured the passes into Hanzhong, and while one army held Jiang Wei in the northwest, the general Deng Ai went forward against Chengdu. In the winter, after victory in one pitched battle, he received the surrender of Liu Shan. There was a brief period of intrigue and confusion as Deng Ai was dismissed and then assassinated, while Jiang Wei and a rebel commander of Wei, Zhong Hui, sought to establish an independent position, but the plotters were killed, and in the summer of 264 Liu Shan was received into honoured exile at Luoyang."

The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin. A history of China in the Third Century AD: http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/3KWJin.html

邓艾 Deng Ai: http://www.ndcnc.gov.cn/datalib/2001/MartialCyclopaedic/DL/DL-3106/

 

Deng Yu. (1337-1377). "Deng Yu's Tomb lies on the western Dengfushan Hills, outside Zhonghuamen Gate, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Pr., China. It was built in 1378 (the 10th year of Emperor Zhu Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty). Born in: Hongxian County, Anhui Pr. in the Ming. Career: In his early years, he joined in Zhu Yuanzhang's insurrectionary army and repeatedly performed outstanding service. In 1377, he withdrew his troops back to the imperial court from the Kunlun Mountain, and while he was passing by Shouchun County, Anhui Pr., he died of sickness at the age of forty-one. Afterwards, he was awarded the title "King of Ninghe" and the posthumous title "Wushun" by the emperor."

Deng Yu's Tomb -http://www.chinaart-6.com.cn/home/chinese%20p/wenwu/mu/dengyumu/dengyumu-e.htm

邓愈 Deng Yu: http://www.ndcnc.gov.cn/datalib/2001/MartialCyclopaedic/DL/DL-3123/

 

Deng Tingzhen 邓廷桢 (1775-1846). "Economic and social dilemmas raised by the opium trade prompted a number of Qing officials to memorialize the throne on this question. What ensued was a carefully reasoned examination of China's existing opium laws. Some memorialists believed that Opium should be legalized and paid for with trading goods. While China developed domestic sources for the drug to diminish reliance on imports, European traders could at least be forced to pay duty on shipments from abroad. Other memorialists advocated a "War on drugs" with strict prohibitions designed to dry up the supply of the drug and discourage its domestic marketing and use.

One advocate of legalization was Xu Naiji (1777-1839), an 1809 jinshi from Renhe County, Zhejiang, who had served as circuit intendant (daotai) at Canton. In the spring of 1836, while he was serving as a sub-director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship in Peking, Xu addressed his ideas to the throne in a memorial that remains controversial even today. In the memorial, reproduced below, he admitted the evil effects of opium but argued for a process of legalization whose end result would have been the elimination of silver outflow and the dominant foreign role in the trade. The Daoguang emperor seemed to lean toward Xu's proposal but remanded it with a terse edict to Deng Tingzhen, the governor of Guang-dong and Guangxi, for his consideration."

The First Clash with the West: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/restricted/legal.htm

"The Imperial Commissioner responsible for leading the crackdown on opium, Lin Zexu, and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Deng Tingzhen, stayed in this temple on their inspection tour of Macau in 1839, and received Portuguese officials here."

http://www3.icm.gov.mo/gate/gb/www.icm.gov.mo/Heritage/Tour/CHPointE.asp?N=2&R=B

Movie: Yapian zhanzheng (1997)

Deng Shichang 邓世昌 (1849-1894), renowned captain of the 2,300-ton cruiser Chih Yuan which was torpedoed off the coast of Chengshantou during the "Battle of the Yellow Sea" on 17 September 1894. A movie entitled "The Naval Battle of 1894" was produced by Changchun Studio to depict this spectacular sea battle. His ancestral home is known to be in Panyu, Guangdong.

Photo: http://www.epicbook.com/history/densichang.html
Beiyang Navy: http://www.beiyang.org/mrt/dsc.htm

"The Yellow Sea Naval Battle during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (launched by Japanese imperialism to annex Korea and invade China) happened on the sea 10 sea miles off the coast of Chengshantou. The patriotic general of Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, Deng Shichang, died in this battle on 17 September 1894. One corrupt Chinese official had used ammunition funds for personal use. As a result, shells ran out for the some of the warships during battle such that one navy commander, Deng Shichang, resorted to ramming the enemy's ship. Deng, captain of the 2,300-ton cruiser Chih Yuan, and his crew's fate was sealed when their vessel was hit by a torpedo during the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the first full-scale confrontation between two national fleets of ironclads in modern times. The then emperor, Guang Xu, wrote a lament for him, and the tomb with the inscription are still in Shihuangdi Temple."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/shichang.htm

邓世昌 Deng Shichang: http://www.ndcnc.gov.cn/datalib/2001/MartialCyclopaedic/DL/DL-3116/

Deng Yingchao 鄧穎超. Wade-Giles romanization Teng Ying-ch'ao (b. Feb. 4, 1904, Guangshan [Kuang-shan] county, Henan [Honan], China - d. July 11, 1992, Beijing, China), Chinese politician; wife of Zhou Enlai. Her commitment to expanding women's rights was manifested early in life when she joined the movement to abolish the custom of binding women's feet. She took part in the May Fourth Movement (1917-21), a revolution by young intellectuals aimed at preserving Chinese culture in the wake of Japanese encroachment. When she was 15, she joined the Awakening Society, a liberal student movement headed by Zhou, and was arrested for her radical activities. She joined the Communist Party in 1924.

http://rulers.org/indexd2.html
The Zhou Enlai-Deng Yingchao Memorial Hall in Tianjin -http://www.online.tj.cn/zhel/zhelmain.htm
Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao -http://www.mzhoudeng.com/

Deng Xiaoping 邓小平(1904-1997).

"Plant trees everywhere and make our country green in the interest of future generations." http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1070.html

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/

"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." http://www.time.com/time/deng/thoughts.html

"By boldly repudiating Maoism and masterminding epochal economic reforms in China, Deng Xiaoping improved the lives of far more people than any other leader -- anytime, anywhere." http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0307/cs6.html

Deng Xiaoping and the fate of the Chinese Revolution 12 March 1997. http://www.wsws.org/history/1997/mar1997/dengx.shtml

The Chinese character of Deng 鄧 邓 in their traditional (Big5) and simplified (GB) forms.

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(Photo: Wushu Team Head Coach: Deng Zhen.
See him in action.)

The Origin of Chinese Surnames. According to legends, Chinese surnames originated from the Emperor Fu Xi (2852BC). He standardized all Chinese surnames and defined matrimonial relationship. Thus a proper system of population census was established. It was also believed that there is a close relationship between surnames and totem worship; the early Chinese adopted the names or symbols of certain animals as their surname (e.g. Long (2) which means dragon.)

.China issues 1st set of stamps on family names. This set of special stamps features a red Chinese knot, which symbolizes unity and luck, in the center and a totem design of the surname. On each of the 128 stamps is printed a different family name.

Chinese surname history: Wang . One of the current biggest surnames in China, families surnamed Wang are the descendants of monarchs. One can know from historical records that Wang families are the "offspring of kings", namely, the descendants of monarchs. Wang means the king or the ruler.

The origin of Chinese Surnames. The Chinese have had surnames long before the period of the Three Emperors and Five Kings, that is, during the time when recognition was given only to one's mother and not one's father. Hence, the Chinese character for surname is made up of two individual characters----one meaning woman and one meaning to give birth. That is to say, the surnames of the early Chinese followed the maternal line. Before the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou (2140-256 BC), the people in China were already having surnames (Xing) and clan-names (Shi).

Hundred Name
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