• 1. August; Aug.
• 2. the eighth month of the lunar year; the eighth moon

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• August 1st PLA Founding Day, a day to commemorate the founding of the PLA (People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China) on August 1st, 1927.

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• December 9th Movement. On December 9th, 1935, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Beiping (now Beijing) students launched the anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. The Japanese imperialist invasion of Northeast China in 1931 continued to unfold in North China under the KMT government's policy of compromise. On August 1, 1935, the Communist Party of China issued the "August 1st Declaration", calling on the people to save the nation from Japanese imperialism. On December 9...

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• a legendary ruler of great antiquity, the first of the Three August Ones (三皇), credited with the invention of hunting and fishing and the domestication of animals

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• Army Day (1 August)

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• 1. the last or third fu—the third hottest period of the year (10 days)
• 2. the first day of the last or third fu (falling in early or mid August)

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• august wisdom (formerly used in adulation of the Roman emperor Augustus)

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• Dairy Queen Ice Cream, an international chain of ice cream and fast food restaurants. It was funded in August 4, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, and the funder is John Fremont McCullough.

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• 1. August
• 2. Auguste

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• The legal currency first issued by the Kuomintang government on November 4th, 1935. It was devaluated sharply during the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. On August 19th, 1948 it was then replaced by Jinyuanquan (金圆券).

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• Leifeng (1940 ー1962), who took part in army in 1960, and in communist party in the same year. He met his death in the line of duty in August 15th 1962. Comrade Leifeng is an average and great communist soldier. Chairman Mao Zedong ever wrote as "to learn the virtue of Leifeng". Premier Zhou Enlai ever generalized spirits of leifeng as "clear-cut class stand, revolutionary spirit of actions in accordance with words, communist manner of objectivity and brave proletariat militant spirit".

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• The March 8th International Women's Day. On march 8, 1909, women workers in Chicago, the United States, took to the street in a demonstration for the equality of men and women and other rights. At the 2nd International Socialist Women's Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August the following year, a decision was reached to designate March 8 as Women's Day in order to promote the unity and liberation of laboring women throughout the world. Abbreviation 妇女节、三八节.

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• Three wise kings and five august emperors; legendary Chinese rulers of remote antiquity. The three refer to Fuxi, Suiren, Shennong according to one version of the legend, or the King of Man according to another. The five emperors refer to the Yellow Emperor, Emperor Zhuanxu, Emperor Ku, Emperor Yao, and Emperor Shun.

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• The abbreviation for 中国革命同盟会; United League; Chinese Bourgeois Revolutionary Party founded by Sun Yat-sen in Tokyo in August of 1905, whose political program was to "expel the Manchus, restore order to China, found the Republic, and redistribute land ownership equally". Active in the revolutionary struggle launched the revolution of 1911, overthrew the Qing Dynasty and founded the Republic of China. In 1912 it was regrouped and became the Kuomintang of China.

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• Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935-August 16, 1977), commonly referred to as the "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", "The King", or "The Hillbilly Cat", an American singer, musician and actor

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• Christmas in August

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• August (Aug.)

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• August Hermann Francke

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• Francis August Schaeffer

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• Consumer Level Quality August Program

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