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- Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... and became a protégé of Luo Zhenyu, a Chinese antiquarian who encouraged ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- culture") is an infrequent Chinese surname, and "Wenzi ... In 1973, Chinese archeologists excavated a Han Dynasty tomb near Dingzhou ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- , 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician ... In his writing, despite his own strong emphasis on Confucian learning ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ... the countryside became a common theme in Chinese art and a model for later ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ... E.). Some of the earliest examples of Chinese writing date back to this period ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally ... most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese dragon]] ... for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... Often they are improvised at the moment of writing. Calligraphy has ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher ... role in educating the public, and used his writing to advocate democracy and ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are transmitted ... denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- script, the earliest recorded form of Chinese writing. Wang Yirong, director ... Longgu (dragon bones) at a traditional Chinese pharmacy. He noticed strange ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- same day, see Mid-Autumn Festival (across Chinese diaspora and Vietnam) and ... honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. The ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... young age to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist ... also witnessed how Westerners viewed the Chinese people. He developed his ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese ... is used for collation. For example, the Chinese character for "mother ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- but later resigned to devote himself to writing. His first book, Wagahai ... school, Natsume became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- was also highly developed in Europe. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ... from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. The scroll is ... prepared specifically for the purpose of writing a Torah Scroll. ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ... One of the best known stories in Chan history is the verse writing ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... tenth century, when the Balhae (Bohai in Chinese,振, then 渤海) kingdom ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- is an unusual surname and the common Chinese word for "ink," ... He was well-educated and versed in the Chinese classics. He held public ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ... separated from the Miao. Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- Some of them viewed the traditional Chinese writing system as an obstacle ... characters point out that the Chinese writing system has been undergoing ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- Block printing is well-suited to written Chinese because character alignment ... inventors with advantage over their Chinese counterparts: the screw ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- , also known as Jin Kui (金喟), was a Chinese literary theorist, writer ... Please note that to be "painfully happy" in Chinese does ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- altar, just as is performed in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism ... performed is not limited; at times, spirit writing using a brush or other implement ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- | typedesc = (non-linear writing) | time = 1821 to the present ... | fam1 = Night writing | creator = Louis Braille ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- love. Murasaki is thought to have started writing the novel around 1003, and ... study with her brother, and to learn some Chinese and Buddhist classics, which ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 ... The work was included in the ancient Chinese civil service examinations ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- his family’s library and was talented at writing. He was to become the Korean ... reach future generations was through his writing. During that period he concentrated ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- as "Bai Qiuen" (白求恩) in Chinese, (March 4, 1890 – November ... In 1938, Bethune went to China to aid the Chinese Red Army in their war with ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- He combined the depth of the Chinese scholarship and the study ... a telescope and used to observe the stars, writing his own analysis in short ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng, was a Chinese educator, philosopher, ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...26 KB (3,844 words) - 14:50, 5 December 2023
- 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a Chinese painter. His pseudonyms ... He is perhaps the most noted contemporary Chinese painter for the ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese ... Because he was well versed in classic Chinese, his writings often reflects ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- 18 years of her life in China, learned Chinese as her first language, and ... She was raised in China and learned the Chinese language from a teacher ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as ... Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ... calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 10:25, 21 January 2023
- Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient ... Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) has taken various ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- of Six 六一居士 in his old age, was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist ... as one of the highest achievements of Chinese travel writing. He wrote ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... Fu as one of the most humane and moral of Chinese poets; and indeed, Du Fu ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- Power of Prepositions,"] "On Writing," Criminal Brief (2007 ... of orthography, the conventions used for writing a language. It may also ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- because it uses concise language and few Chinese words. Sei Shōnagon's ... and for her familiarity with the Chinese classics, an unusual accomplishment ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- the New Testament and the Psalms into Chinese and Uyghur. After working ... preached in it, and translated into Chinese the New Testament and the ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- , is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. Qi is believed ... This active cosmology has influenced Chinese philosophy, as well as ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Wai-shih, or Hsiang–yang Man-shih, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher ... he was shown a sample of Wang Xianzhi’s writing and became so excited that ...19 KB (3,202 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- became perhaps the most famous in Chinese history. Yuan Zhen ( ... , 779–831), courtesy name Weizhi (微之), was an important Chinese ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
