Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the unsuccessful 1898 reform movement

children or descendants, specifically male offspring in the context of family lineage

from that time on; subsequently or henceforth

collective offspring or future generations of a person or family

a son adopted into a family specifically to continue the ancestral lineage

Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to [[袁世凯|袁世凱|Yuan2 Shi4 kai3]] during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire

to accede to a throne

the following year; the next year

the inheritance or continuation of a glorious tradition, reputation, or legacy

to follow a predecessor's example or carry on a tradition

a person who inherits a title or estate; posterity

to succeed to a title or throne; to inherit a position of power