Lan Tianye Lan Tianye Lan Tianye (; born 1927) is a Chinese actor and painter. Lan is noted for his roles as Jiang Ziya in the television series "The Investiture of the Gods". Lan was born Wang Runsen () in Raoyang County, Hengshui, Hebei in 1927, during the Republic of China. Wang became a drama actor in 1944. Wang graduated from National Beiping Art School (). In 1948, during the Chinese Civil War, Wang defected to liberated areas, and changed his name Lan Tianye. Lan entered the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1952. In 1962, Lan learned Chinese painting from Li Kuchan
Acronym ... believe that acronyms can be differentiated from other abbreviations in being pronounceable as words. Dictionaries, however, do not make this distinction because writers in general do not. ... "Initialism", an older word than "acronym", seems to be too little known to the general public to serve as the customary term standing in contrast with "acronym" in a narrow sense." About the use of "acronym" to only mean those pronounced as words, "Fowler's Modern English Usage" (3rd ed.) states: "The limitations of the term being not widely known to the general public, "acronym" is also often applied to abbreviations that