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- one of the most respected physicians in Chinese history, Hua Tuo devised ... lost forever. This loss to traditional Chinese medicine was irreplaceable. Veith ...11 KB (1,818 words) - 01:27, 4 February 2023
- on Mount Emei had long been the home of Chinese martial arts. ... tall. Chinese monk Hai Tong and his disciples carved the Buddha statue ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese dragon]] The Chinese dragon (spelled Long, Loong, or Lung in transliteration ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- , courtesy name Zixian (子先), was a Chinese bureaucrat, agricultural ... de Rocha. He became the most influential Chinese Christian before the twentieth ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- bone 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
- ) (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
- Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... Christianity in China, he showed Chinese scholars that foreign countries ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... References to the Khitan in Chinese sources date back to the fourth ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- → wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green ... The name oolong comes into the English language from the Chinese name ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- ; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō ... deal of confusion over these sutras in the Chinese Buddhist world, since Confucianism ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic ... Qu Yuan is considered the first prominent Chinese poet. Twenty-five ...16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
- Xiuzhen (修真) is the principal technique in the Taoist quest for immortality or spiritual transcendence, a theme documented in Chinese history ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- 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
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has been researched by South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese scholars. ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects. The other major sect is ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- became the preferred stone of post-1800 Chinese imperial scholars and rulers ... From about the earliest Chinese dynasties until present, the jade ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science, not religion, as ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- man and woman in wall paintings wearing Chinese-style dresses depict the ... nominal titles indicates his leverage over Chinese in the Korean peninsula ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- river. These contests were of three types: Chinese poetry, Tanka poetry, and ... a similar practice in collections of Chinese poems of the time. Unlike ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- , 429–500), courtesy name Wenyuan (文遠), was a prominent Chinese ... Chinese mechanical engineer Ma Jun (c. 200-265 C.E.) originally invented ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble ... Early Chinese poetry grew from a rich tradition of folk songs and ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- 敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the ... Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Jiao Yu (Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 焦玉, Wade-Giles: Chiao Yü, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāo Yù) was a Chinese military officer loyal to ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- Shaanxi constitutes one of the origin sites for the Chinese people ... to be one of the many points where Chinese civilization first developed ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- percent. The most impressive collection of Chinese art from those dynasties ... * Chinese Buddhism * Buddhist Art * Mogao Caves ==Notes== ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 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
- Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- “air” and “qi” (氣) in Chinese thought. Furthermore, one ... His concept of “air,” like “qi” in Chinese thought, seems not to be ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Heaven and Earth on the behalf of the Chinese empire, especially responsible ... variation of Tai Chi. Developed by Chinese Olympic boxing coach Bai ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 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
- Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280 B.C.E. – 233 B.C.E., ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- is included among the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. ... or fictionalizing, was used in ancient Chinese historical narratives, but ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations covering a history of over ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- 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
- century, Sinocentrism was replaced with Chinese nationalism (zhonghua minzu ... of China, and relations between the Chinese Empire and these peoples ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- Baekdu Mountain (Baekdusan), also known as Changbai Mountain in Chinese, is a volcanic mountain on the border between North Korea and the Manchurian ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- (December 1, 1886 – July 6, 1976) was a Chinese Communist military leader ... severely curtailed the growth of the Chinese Communist Party. ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 15:28, 3 December 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
- Daman Hongren (Chinese: 弘忍) (Wade-Giles:Shih Hung-jen; Japanese: Daiman Konin) (601 - 674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch in the ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- Chinese mythology starts with Pangu, the creator of the universe, ... It was during this period that Chinese civilization developed a ruling ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- | image = chinese jadeite buttons.jpg | imagesize = ... the most valuable of the jades by the Chinese, known for their carefully ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, ... In December 2007 Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- deities who play an important role in Chinese religion and culture. While ... times throughout the vast corpus of Chinese folktales and literature. ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 09:15, 20 January 2024
- Jianzhen or Ganjin (Chien-chen鑒真 or 鑑真; 688–763) was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- Tung Chung-shu or Dong Zhongshu (Chinese: 董仲舒; pinyin: Dŏng Zhòngshū; Dong Zhongshu; ca. 195 B.C.E.–ca. 115 B.C.E.) was a Han Dynasty ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
