there r TWO TYPHOONS named after me! (yeah, named after me. not me named after them heheheh) Shanshan wreaked havoc in Japan, with reports that it caused a tornado which derailed a train. It made landfall first in the Yaeyama Islands, where it caused heavy rains, and later in Kyūshū. The outer bands of Shanshan also affected South Korea. Shanshan also knocked power out to thousands of homes in the two countries, and killed at least eleven people. The exact damage figures are not yet known. 2006 Typhoon Shanshan. (point to note: the shanshan mentioned here is not me. so i din kill anyone.)
Shanshan is the chinese of a kingdom!! Shanshan (Chinese: 鄯善; pinyin: Shànshàn) is the Chinese name for a kingdom that existed roughly from 200 BCE-1000 CE at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan desert including the great salt lake known as Lop Nur.
Japanese in Tottori City celebrates the SHANSHAN festival (kasa-odori) (pic above)! The Kasa-odori is very popular in the eastern part of Tottori Prefecture. According to the legend in Kokufu Town, in the Edo Period (A.D. 1603-1867) during a drought, an old man named Gorosaku danced with an umbrella (kasa) for the village God praying for rain. Gorosaku danced with the umbrella until he died, and the drought ended. These days, the dance is performed with ornamented paper umbrellas and Japanese swords, which represent the beautiful but gallant local culture of Tottori.
SHANstate! (see above for the state's pic) Shan State is a state located in Myanmar (Burma), which takes its name from the Shan people, the majority ethnic group in the Shan State.
There's also a Shan language used by 3,200,000 people! (abt 60% of Singapore's population)However, few Shan are literate, and many are bilingual in Burmese. The Shan State became independant last yr in may n it's now called Federated Shan States.
