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- well-suited to support the Pandas, the Chinese government has established ... * Wolong National Nature Reserve (Chinese: 卧龙自然保护区) ...13 KB (1,731 words) - 20:05, 21 April 2023
- his translations introduced the best of Chinese and Japanese literature ... Waley was self-taught in both Chinese and Japanese and achieved a ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in Beijing. It developed ... edu/skozerow/wadegiles.htm |title=Chinese Language Transliteration Systems—Wade ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang ... Feng-Huang (Chinese: 鳳凰; Pinyin: Fènghuáng; Japanese: 鳳凰 ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- :For other uses, see Chinese nationality. t=中華民族|s=中华民族 ... Zhonghua minzu (Chinese: 中华民族; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- He also compiled a Grammar of the Chinese Language (1815) and a Dictionary ... In Canton City he learned the Chinese language from a student named ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- known as Prince of Wu (吳王), was a Chinese poet and the last ruler ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Daoist classics, attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dongbin (798 ... Golden Flower is attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dong bin (798 ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- the empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources ... Since the empire took on trappings of a Chinese state, Chinese historians ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... quot;), the first systematic work of Chinese etymology. He developed ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... ambiguity of meaning was a feature of Chinese language, and therefore Chinese ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ... the development of present-day Chinese writing and remains an academic ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... and these traits are associated with the Chinese concept of Yin (the feminine ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- names, including the stage name Lan Ping (Chinese: 蓝苹), and commonly referred ... was one of the most powerful figures in Chinese politics during Mao’s ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... and clothing and refused to use the Chinese language, devising a writing ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... a new method of romanizing the Chinese language, and created an indexing ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- He allied with the Kuomintang against the Chinese Communists, but gradually ... (Chang Tso-lin, “Old Marshal”) a Chinese warlord who dominated Manchuria ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- ; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō ... for everyone with great compassion. Such language has deep resonances in other ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ... sānhuáng) of ancient China. According to Chinese mythology, he is a cultural ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military ... niru, Chinese: 佐領 zuoling), some of which reflected pre-existing ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a re-evaluation ... communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话) made it possible ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- 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
- The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji ... end. Rinzai is the Japanese branch of the Chinese Linji school, which was ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of ... and, less formal than most classical language, his history was therefore ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- these structures incorporated elements of Chinese pavilions and towers. ... encounter with the East. The original Chinese is ta, which is an abbreviated ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" ... had no basis in history. Dating classical Chinese text has been difficult ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- He translated more than 60 sutras into Chinese, including Saravanabhava ... of Buddhist practices in South Asia and of Chinese monks who traveled to India ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- gained immunity from prosecution under Chinese law. The treaty resulted ... political influence, resented by the Chinese. The Opium Wars rank among ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- in 1582, Ricci began learning the Chinese language and customs, and eventually ... in Macao to start learning the Chinese language and customs. These Jesuits ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Halhūn be jailara gurung) or Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 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
- The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: ... This tradition was been followed until the Chinese Communist takeover in the 1950s. ...11 KB (1,374 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- Han Chinese speak various forms of the Chinese language; one of the ... Wu dialects, which are part of the Chinese language family but are mutually ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 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
- , 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
- kingdoms shared a similar culture and language. Their original religions ... fall. The first mention of Goguryeo in Chinese records dates from 75 B ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics of Chinese at an early age. By the ... Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Baekdu Mountain (Baekdusan), also known as Changbai Mountain in Chinese ... quot;white-headed mountain." Both the Chinese name, Changbai Shan and ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- 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 New Testament and the Psalms into Chinese and Uyghur. After working ... he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- ) 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
- ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, ... ; translation: Baidu Encyclopedia) is a Chinese language collaborative ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- , 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
- → 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
- by the Arabs. Though the Sogdian language is extinct, there remains ... China were triggered by the embassy of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian during ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- the original culture. For example, the Chinese written language Hanzi was ... languages. “Pidgin” is a mixed language that developed to help members ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- Documents] of the Yongle Era”) was a Chinese compilation commissioned ... Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 16:59, 4 June 2023
- altar, just as is performed in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism ... Séances can be conducted in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, or English, depending ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese "spoken theater" ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- women leaders who successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years ... the fate of servitude to the people from the North (Chinese). ...14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022
- bone script, the earliest recorded form of Chinese writing. Wang Yirong, director ... History of China (Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2002). King Wu Ding ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 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
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- In Chinese, Huang Taiji is also known as Hóng Tàijí (洪太極 ... in the Manchu language. Huang Taiji is also sometimes referred erroneously ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- He encouraged the participation of Han Chinese in government while pursuing ... age of five (six according to traditional Chinese age reckoning) in 1643, ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- *Metal (Chinese:金, pinyin: jīn, "gold") *Wood (Chinese: 木, pinyin: mù) *Water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ) ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- of spices. Chai is ultimately from the Chinese word chá (茶) meaning ... The Chinese character for tea is 茶, but it is pronounced differently ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- interest in the inter-connections among language, thinking, and culture. ... so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents. When he ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- * Chinese Law that between the Soviet, Muslim, Hindu, or Chinese Law. According to David ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against ... Pinyin: luàn), a negative term in Chinese language, when described by commentators ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- merchants, resolved to enter the vast Chinese market, used his actions ... increased the economic burden on the Chinese people, and, together with ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- Jiao Yu (Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 焦玉, Wade-Giles: Chiao ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology during ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- (T: 吉林烏拉 / S: 吉林乌拉) in Chinese, then shortened to Jilin ... and Balhae. Since 926 C.E., various Chinese dynasties and people have ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not reflect ... Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 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
- Chinese 菩提達摩, Japanese ダルマ), with founding the famous Shaolin school of Chinese martial arts and is known ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within ... word Deus does not sound right in the Chinese language, the Westerners in China ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji ... is used for collation. For example, the Chinese character for "mother ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- , 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
- of his work; he tried to use simple language and direct themes, and it ... became perhaps the most famous in Chinese history. Yuan Zhen ( ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- “School of semantics”) was a classical Chinese philosophical school that ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally ... derived from the written form of the Chinese language, which is not alphabetical ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- which occurs many times in modern English-language popular culture. is interesting to note that the following Chinese couplet attributed to a ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- 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
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... of romanization based on different Chinese language variants between 1900 ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信， Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin ... Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (University ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 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
- | nationality = Chinese | denomination = | school ... | title = Third Chinese Patriarch | workplace = ...18 KB (2,660 words) - 12:22, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 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
- Asia. Hwanin is a pronunciation of the Chinese letters "환인 桓因 ... this according with similar sounding Chinese Letters: 桓因. Modern ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ... 鄂爾渾文字) to record the Old Turkic language. == Etymology == ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- Leninism derived from the teachings of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong ... Maoism has never been used in its English-language publications except pejoratively ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ... and hence, the local people and their language is referred to as Cantonese ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- other intellectual traditions, such as Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy ... from non-Western traditions, such as Chinese or Indian philosophy, often ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- As a consequence of the heavy fighting, many innocent Chinese and ... story temple in 1954, one of the few Chinese Mahayana temples in Singapore ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) ... Gardens, before becoming a member of the Chinese People's Political ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- a jelly-like noodle), negi (green onions), Chinese cabbage, and enokitake mushrooms ... (a type of noodles), negi (green onions), Chinese cabbage, enokitake mushrooms ...7 KB (1,137 words) - 21:42, 26 February 2023
