Zhu Quan, Prince of Ning
Statue of Zhu Quan in Wuyi Mountain Tea Theme Park
Prince of Ning
Reign	1391 - 1448
Successor	Zhu Dienpei
Issue
Zhu Panshi, Hereditary Prince Zhu Panye, Prince Kangxi of Linchuan Zhu Panyao, Prince Anjian of Yichun Zhu Panzhu, Prince Anxi of Xinchang Zhu Panmuo, Prince Daohui of Xinfeng
Full name
Family name: Zhu (朱) Given name: Quan (权 / 權)
Posthumous name
Prince Xian of Ning 寧獻王
Father	Hongwu Emperor
Mother	Imperial Concubine Yang
Born	(1378-05-27)27 May 1378
Died	12 October 1448(1448-10-12) (aged 70)

First page / leaf of volume 3 of Zhu Quan's Shenqi Mipu. From right to left: Full title of tablature collection 臞仙神奇秘譜 with volume number 下卷 (lower or third) plus seals of the owner of this copy (if any), title of the volume 霞外神品, the tuning and method of tuning 黃鐘調, name of the 'modal preface' 調意, the tablature (shorthand) of the modal preface, [next page] title of the piece, description of the piece's origins, and the tablature of said piece.

Zhu Quan (朱权 / 朱權), The Prince of Ning (宁王), (1378 – 1448) was the 17th son of Ming Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang; a military commander, historian and playwright, a great tea connoisseur and a qin player.

Pseudonyms: Mr. Dan Qiu, Da Ming Qi Shi, The Odd Scholar of Great Ming, the Emaciated Immortal (臞仙).

Zhu Quan was a military commander, famous for his masterly art of war. In his later years, he retired completely from politics. A great lover of books, he funded the publishing of many rare books. Prince Ning himself wrote many books on history and drama, including The Secret History of the Han and Tang Dynasties and Eloping Xianru. His most famous book was Cha Pu (茶谱, "Tea manual") in 1440. He is also the ancestor of the famous Chinese painter Zhu Da.

Zhu Quan is an important person in the guqin world, for his compiling of the important Shenqi Mipu (神奇秘譜, Mysterious and Marvellous Tablatures) of 1425, the earliest known collection of qin scores.

Succession[link]

• 1st prince: Zhu Quan, Prince Xian of Ning
  • Hereditary Prince: Zhu Panshi, Prince Hui of Ning
    • 2nd Prince: Zhu Dienpei, Prince Jing of Ning
      • 3rd Prince: Zhu Kunjun, Prince Kang of Ning
        • 4th Prince: Zhu Chenhao, Prince of Ning

See also[link]

• Tea Classics
• Guqin
• List of qinpu

References[link]

Please see: References section in the guqin article for a full list of references used in all qin related articles.

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Yuan Quan (袁泉) (October 6, 1977 -) is a Chinese actress & singer, who was born in Hubei City, and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama.

Filmography[link]

• My Ex-wife's Wedding (2010)
• Like a Dream (2009)
• Shanghai Rumba (2006)
• The Proud Twins (2005)
• Waiting Alone (2004)
• The Law of Romance (2003)
• For the Children (2002)
• A Love of Blueness (2000)
• Rhapsody of Spring (1998)
• Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1998)

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References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• IMDB page

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Bronze bust of professor Wang Zhuxi at Department of Physics, Peking U

Wang Zhuxi (Chinese: 王竹溪; Pinyin: Wáng Zhúxī; June 7, 1911 - January 30, 1983), given name as Zhiqi (治淇), sobriquet as Zhuxi, was a renowned physicist, educator and philologist of China.

Biography[link]

Born in Gong'an County, Hubei Province, Wang graduated from department of physics of Tsinghua University in 1933, and continue his postgraduate study in its graduate school. Being supported by the government, he went to study in Britain and obtained his doctorate degree from Cambridge University in 1938. Then he returned to China and taught Statistical Physics, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics in physics department at Tsinghua. After 1952, he became a professor at Peking University, and later served as the vice president of the University. He was elected a founding member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.

Wang authored several textbooks, such as "Thermodynamics", "Introduction to Statistical Physics". He served as the director of Terminology Committee of Chinese Physics Society, and created quite a few Chinese versions of new physics terms. In the meantime, he devoted to studying philology and edited "New Chinese Dictionary by Division Heads" with 2,500,000 words. It simplified 214 division heads in Kangxi Dictionary into only 56, and arranged over 50,000 Chinese characters by stoke orders, from top to bottom, left to right, which was convenient for retrieval.

Many of Wang's students are prominent physicists, including Nobel laureate Chen-Ning Yang and former president of CAS, Zhou Guangzhao. In 2003, a brass statue of Wang was founded on the campus of Peking University.

Works[link]

• Thermodynamics,2nd Edition; Wang Z.X; Peking University Press 2005 ISBN 7-301-08495-1
• Statistical Physics, Wang Z.X. Peking University Press
• Special Functions, Wang Z X, Guo D R, Singapore World Scientific Publishing C. 1989 ISBN 9971-5-0667-X
• New Chinese Dictionary by Division Heads, Wang Z.X.

References[link]

• The Beauty of Rigor and Conciseness—Wang Zhuxi's Life Long Pursuit of Physics, by Wang Zhengxing, Peking U Press 244pp ISBN 978-7-301-13538-9

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