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Bixiayuan jun

Bixiayuan jun since the Song dynasty is a very important female Daoist divinity. She originated from the belief in mountain divinities of northern China. She is called "Eastern Marchmount Taishan heavenly transcendent Jade woman Bixiayuan, Our Lady of Taishan, Maternal Grandmother of Taishan, Old Mother of Taishan, Holy Mother of Taishan, or Our Lady of Ten Thousand Mountains. She is propitiated on Mount Tai the Eastern of the Five Marchmounts.

Tenuta de Castelporziano

The Tenuta de Castelporziano is one of three residences of the president of the Italian Republic (the other two are the Quirinal Palace in Rome and the Villa Rosebery in Naples). It is situated in Rome's Rione XIII, twenty-four kilometers from the city center.

The Castelporziano estate was purchased in 1872 for the House of Savoy, by the minister of finance for the Kingdom of Italy. Quintino Sella. In 1948, it became the property of the president of the Italian Republic. In 1977, the president Giovanni Leone forbade hunting on the estate, and the cultural zone was reduced to five-hundred hectares. In 1985, around one-thousand hectares of the Capocotto shoreland. In 1999, the estate became a national nature reserve. In 1997, a fire destroyed around twenty hectares of the presidential park.

The Prix Giles (also known as the Prix Hérbert Allen Giles) is a awarded biennially for a work relative to China, Japan or East Asian that was published in the previous two years by a French author. It is named after the British sinologist, Herbert Giles, and is awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. The prize was established in 1918 and was funded by Herbert Giles himself. The first award was given in 1919.