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- Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient and modern, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- role in the governing itself of the ancient Chinese rulers: ... The early Chinese sages were fascinated to "look upward and contemplate ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It has been in continual use in ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed in China during the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The materials used in Chinese painting, brush and ink on paper ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- A Chinese character ( t=漢字|s=汉字|汉字|p=Hànzì ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Greater China region, which includes territories administered by ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 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
- Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in Asia over the centuries. The structural principles of Chinese ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Chinese New Year ( t=農曆新年, 春節|s=农历新年, 春节 ) (or generally referred to as Lunar New Year globally) is the Chinese festival ...42 KB (6,591 words) - 16:45, 10 December 2023
- Simplified Chinese Characters ( s=简化字|t=簡化字|p=Jiǎnhuàzì or s=简体字|t=簡體字|p=Jiǎntǐzì ) are one of two standard sets ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- Traditional Chinese medicine (also known as TCM, s=中医学|t=中醫學|p=zhōngyī xué ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating ...53 KB (7,935 words) - 04:54, 1 May 2023
- The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn|l=Nationalist-Communist Civil War ) or ( t=解放战争|s=解放战争 ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
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- Zhonghua minzu (Chinese: 中华民族; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú), is a Chinese term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- ==Filial Piety and Chinese Culture== Filial piety is considered the first virtue in Chinese culture, and ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- of) Korean Peninsula. Most of the Chinese and Korean scholars consider the era of Gija Joseon as a part of the Gojoseon period (2333 B.C.E.-108 ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- [[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
- 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
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary. His philological works ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. ... Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- London Missionary Society. He found the Chinese government hostile, but ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- Feng Youlan (馮友蘭, 冯友兰, Féng Yǒulán; Wade-Giles: Fung Yu-lan) (1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script. Carved onto 81,258 ... version incorporated older Northern Song Chinese, Khitan, Goryeo versions ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- Daoist classics, attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dongbin (798 C.E. - ?) who is believed to have lived on earth for more than 800 ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 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
- 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
- in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally be translated as "Emperor (or Sovereign) Above," ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- one of the most public leaders in Chinese history. Burdened with many ... seizure of power was justified within Chinese political thinking. He invaded ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- these structures incorporated elements of Chinese pavilions and towers. ... encounter with the East. The original Chinese is ta, which is an abbreviated ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 06:15, 18 November 2022
- ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ... The dizi is an important Chinese musical instrument, and is widely ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
