Search results for "Chinese Phoenix" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • [[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang ... cosmology. Sometimes called the Chinese Phoenix, the Feng-Huang is a ...
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  • ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...
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  • Constabulary. He did his cadet training at Phoenix Park Depot in Dublin, before ... quot; riots, near Bright, against the Chinese gold miners in 1857. In ...
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  • → wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green ... The name oolong comes into the English language from the Chinese name ...
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  • and the turning away from communism by the Chinese government that followed ... red dominates the mountain, as the famous Chinese sweet gums come into season ...
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  • was also highly developed in Europe. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ... from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ...
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  • , 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 ...
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  • wǔshī) is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers ... The lion dance continues to be an important part of Chinese culture ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... **Fenghuang (Chinese Phoenix) **Ji Guang (吉光) **Jian (鶼) A mythical ...
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  • differently. Though the qilin (麒麟, Chinese), a creature in Chinese ... does not mean however, that the ancient Chinese did not believe in its existence ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • arrival of Islam, Buddhism and tradition Chinese culture had a powerful impact ... Ningxia is the home of the Hui, one of the officially recognized Chinese ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial ... , originally a master of Shuaijiao (Chinese wrestling); Song Changrong ...
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  • , was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born in Japan ... and claimed Taiwan, bringing it under Chinese Han rule for the first time ...
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  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...
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  • their skills to become champions in Chinese wrestling and in Japanese ... Mongolia the wrestler imitates falcons or phoenix taking off (devekh). In ...
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  • ;Chinese dragon: Also appearing in other East Asian cultures, it is ... ;Feng-huang: Sometimes called the Chinese Phoenix, the feng-huang ...
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  • Bruce Jun Fan Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), was a Chinese ... martial arts in part as a means to promote Chinese national pride. His films ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ... separated from the Miao. Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe ...
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  • administrators, began calling himself the Chinese title of "wang" ... into the Liaodong Peninsula, the last Chinese commandery at Lelang was ...
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  • Horyuji Temple, were built in the style of Chinese worship halls. Japanese ... cloister. The Kondo, in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two ...
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  • interconnected as early as 5000 B.C.E. Chinese merchants colonized the ... Hainan Island and several other southern Chinese regions such as Yunnan, ...
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  • Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... and servants. Cao belonged to a Han Chinese clan which reached the height ...
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  • . When speaking of "Hainan" in Chinese, it is usually the main ... abbreviation, Qióng (琼 in Simplified Chinese), referring to the greenery ...
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  • American cultures, as well as Latino, Chinese, Anglo, Arabic, and African ... Mountains into the valley southeast of Phoenix. It eventually joins the ...
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  • can exist, similar to the classical Chinese understanding of Yin and Yang. ... * Leland, Charles G. Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches. Phoenix ...
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  • the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the ... (with movable bridges)"), another Chinese long zither also without ...
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  • :For dragons in Oriental cultures see Chinese dragon cultures have perceived them differently. Chinese dragons, and Eastern dragons ...
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  • hope of promoting trade with Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) China. Kiyomori ... [[Image:Japan Uji ByodoIn phoenix hall DSC00409.jpg|thumb|250px|left ...
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  • developed. During a thousand years of Chinese domination starting in the ... Excavations of Chinese tombs in the area indicate that during the ...
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  • Early Chinese prose was deeply influenced by the great philosophical ... fiction. One of the masterpieces of Chinese vernacular fiction is the ...
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  • largest city in the Mountain West after Phoenix and has the tenth largest ... or Latinos in the United States. The Chinese ethnic group make-up of ...
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  • Mongols' discrimination against Han Chinese during the Yuan dynasty ... peasant landholders predominated in Chinese agriculture. ...
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  • from China, one common nickname is "Chinese apple." ... *Aqua Phoenix. 2007. [http://www.aquaphoenix.com/misc/pomegranate/ ...
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  • The school's mascot is the Phoenix, chosen in honor of the city ... in numerous high-level American and Chinese government officials including ...
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  • months before (under the ill-fated name Phoenix Opera), burned to the ground ... question anticipated studies by modern Chinese seismologists in the 1960s) ...
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  • Tiger bones and nearly all body parts are used in traditional Chinese ... of the tigers killed provide stock for Chinese pharmacies. Also, the tigers ...
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  • important towns are Curepipe, Vacoas, Phoenix, Quatre Bornes, Rose-Hill ... Gujarati, Punjabi, and dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, Hakka ...
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  • is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...
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  • (town head), and, as members of the Chinese-mestizo minority, his family ... and Government. Quezon City, Philippines: Phoenix Pub. House, 2006. ISBN 9710618946 ...
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  • on Japanese culture, including the use of Chinese written language; historiography; ... cloister. The Kondo, in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two ...
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  • In the Chinese-influenced capital city of Jakarta, firecrackers are widely used to celebrate Ramadan, although they are officially illegal. ...
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  • 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing escalated ... warfare units were founded in major Chinese cities and were referred ...
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  • a grid pattern, modeled after the ancient Chinese capital during the Tang ... is a golden fenghuang or "Chinese phoenix." The temple was ...
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  • of India's Great Emperors. (London: Phoenix, 2004. ISBN 0753817586) ... stalls, and South Indian, North Indian, Chinese and Western fast food enjoy ...
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  • #039;s Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council ... the island of Taiwan in 1949, during the Chinese Civil War. The Chinese Communist ...
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  • There, she taught English to Syrian and Chinese children and their parents ... Island (now Nikumaroro, Kiribati) in the Phoenix group, landed there, and ...
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  • to Origen and Augustine: What of the Phoenix, which is unique, how could ... In this regard, some apologists cite the Chinese Ming Dynasty "Treasure ...
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  • topped mound tombs in China. Most of these Chinese pyramids are ancient mausoleums ... tycoons in the US. Hunt's Tomb in Phoenix, Arizona and Schoenhofen ...
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  • The Babylonians, Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Aztecs all held somewhat ... Allen Telescope Array in California, the Phoenix Project in Australia, and ...
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  • (now Nanjing) fell. As a result, the Chinese government moved its seat ... 120,000 soldiers under 4 divisions. The Chinese responded with 300,000 men ...
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  • that were traditionally owned by Chinese and Mestizo oligarchs to ... * Lacsamana, Leodivico Cruz. Philippine History and Government. Phoenix ...
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  • were made from an ash and an elm. In Chinese mythology, there is a peach ... ** Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera ** Chusan Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei ...
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  • Avtar Brah and Ann Phoenix, [http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol5/iss3/8/ ... and families are evident in the lives of Chinese migrant workers (Chow, Tong ...
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  • on a pair of male lovers, Qing Dynasty. Chinese Sexual Culture Museum in ... not identities. In more recent times, the Chinese society adopted the term ...
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  • The Phoenix Program, a CIA program of assassination during the Vietnam ... had obtained through treaties from the Chinese Empire. Like Hong Kong, ...
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  • Ling Foundation, a charity backed by the Chinese government.Alan Paul, [https://www ... along with Chino native, Laker fan and Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi ...
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