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Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese Alligator

Conservation status: Endangered The Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinesis) is a small relative of the well-known American Alligator. Unlike its US cousin, the Chinese alligator rarely excedes 7 feet long, with 5 feet being a more common size. While it originally ranged through much of China, this species' wild habitat has been reduced to little more than a few ponds containing a handful of animals, mostly due to conversion of its habitat to argicultural use. Poisoning of rats, which the alligators then eat, has also been blamed for their decline ...

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese in Hawaii

The Chinese in Hawaii constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) have ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. This number does not include people of mixed Chinese and Hawaiian descent. If all people with Chinese ancestry in Hawaii (including the Chinese-Hawaiians) are included, they form about 1/3 of Hawaii's entire population. Being U.S citizens, they are a group of Chinese Americans. Chinese in Hawaii - Origins. Historical records indicated that the earliest of the Chinese from Gua ...

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Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese pagodas

Chinese Pagodas (Chinese 塔, pinyin tǎ) are a traditional part of Chinese architecture, introduced from India along with Buddhism as protective structures for Buddhist relics. In addition to religious use, since ancient times Chinese pagodas have been praised for the spectacular views which they offer, and many famous poems in Chinese history attest to the joy of scaling pagodas. Chinese pagodas - Chinese Characterisation. Lamaist pagodas, mostly seen in the west of China, are closest to what is as ...

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Chinese pagodas - De-emphasis over time

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese character tattoos

Chinese character tattoos are tattoos consisting of Chinese characters (hanzi or kanji) otherwise known as kanji tattoos. Despite allegedly being based on the Chinese or Japanese writing system, these tattoos are almost unheard of in China and Japan, instead being a relatively recent phenomenon originating in Western countries which do not use Chinese characters. Many kanji tattoos are unreadable or nonsense in the original language, and the forms of the Chinese characters are also often mistaken. The online blog Hanzi Smatter gives man ...

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese herbology

Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. Herbology is traditionally one of the more important modalities utilized in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Each herbal medicine prescription is a cocktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient. One batch of herbs is typically decocted twice over the course of one hour. The practitioner usually designs a remedy using one or two main ingredients that target the illness. Then the practitioner adds many other ingredients to adjust the formula to the patient's Yin Ya ...

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Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese in Singapore

The Chinese in Singapore are people of Chinese descent who are born in or immigrated to Singapore and has attained citizenship or permanent residence status. As of 2000 the Chinese constitute 76.8% of Singapore's population, or more than three million Chinese out of four million odd Singaporeans. Chinese in Singapore today commonly recognise themselves as Singaporeans rather than Chinese. Many Chinese too have married Peranakans (Chinese who have married ethnic Malays and have adopted a mix of Chinese and Malay culture) and inc ...

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Chinese in Singapore - Dialect Groups

Chinese in Singapore - Religion

Chinese in Singapore - History

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese astrology

Chinese astrology is related to the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals (aka Chinese Zodiac), and the fortune-telling aspects according to movement of heavenly bodies across the Chinese constellations in the sky. Chinese astrology - Background. The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the names of the Five Elements. Venus is Metal (gold); Jupiter is Wood; Mercury is Water; Mars is Fire; Saturn is Earth. The position of the five planets, the sun, the moon, and comets ...

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Chinese astrology - The Twelve animals

Chinese astrology - The Twelve Zodiac Animals

Chinese astrology - Inner Animals and Secret animals

Chinese astrology - Torè Calendar

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese surname

A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; Hanyu Pinyin: xìng or clan name 氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among ethnic Chinese in overseas Chinese communities. The colloquial expression "the hundred surnames" (百姓 bǎi xìng) is use ...

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Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese character

Chinese characters or Han characters (Traditional: 漢字; Simplified: 汉字; Hanyu Pinyin: Hànzì) are logograms used in the written forms of the Chinese language, and to varying degrees in the Japanese and Korean. Use of Chinese characters has disappeared from the Vietnamese language — where they were used until the 20th century — and from Korea, where they ha ...

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Chinese character - Rare and complex characters

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese language

The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. In general, all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. However, Chinese is also distinguished for a high level of internal diversity. Regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable t ...

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Chinese language - Spoken Chinese

Chinese language - Language or language family?

Chinese language - Written Chinese

Chinese language - Chinese characters

Chinese language - Loanwords

Chinese language - Grammar

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese art

Life in the People's Republic of China Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. The art of Taiwan and that of Chinese Emigrants can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on the heritage of Chines ...

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Chinese art - Historical development to 221 BC

Chinese art - Early imperial China 221 BC–AD 220

Chinese art - Period of division 220–581

Chinese art - The Sui and Tang dynasties 581–960

Chinese art - The Song and Yuan dynasties 960–1368

Chinese art - Late imperial China 1368–1895

Chinese art - Modern Chinese art

Chinese art - Contemporary art since 1979

Chinese art - Unsorted

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese wedding album

A Chinese wedding album is an elaborate book of pictures that became a part of Chinese weddings in the late 20th century. The album usually consists of many pictures of the bride and groom taken at various locations with many different costumes. In contrast to Western wedding pictures, the Chinese wedding album usually does not contain pictures of the actual ceremony and wedding itself. In Hong Kong, howev ...

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese sausage

Chinese sausage (literally “preserved sausage”) is a dried, hard sausage usually made from pork meat and a high content of fat. It is normally smoked, sweetened, and seasoned. It is used as a condiment in many stir-fried dishes in some parts of southern China, including Hong Kong and the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Hunan, and countries in Southeast Asia. It is, for example, used in fried rice, lo mai kai, popiah and char kway teow, a popular noodle dish in Malaysia and Singapo

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion comprises the religion practiced in much of China for thousands of years which included ancestor worship and drew heavily upon concepts and beings within Chinese mythology. It is a constituent part of Chinese traditional religion. Folk religions have been practiced alongside Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism by Chinese people throughout the world for thousands of years. Worship, legends, festivals and various devotions associated with different folk gods and goddesses form an important part of Chinese cul ...

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese State Circus

The Chinese State Circus is a touring circus. The show is based on distinctively chinese acts and acrobatics. All the performers come from China and are trained in the Chinese Tradition. The circus has toured in the UK since 1996, when it was first bought to the UK by Phillip Gandey but is now run by the EEC. It is staging a Christmas show (2005) at the Queen Elizabeth Halls in London. (SE1) Category: Circuses ...

Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese nationalism

Chinese nationalism refers to cultural, historiographical, and political theories, movements and beliefs that assert the idea of a cohesive, unified Chinese people and culture under state(s) that are primarily Chinese. One difficulty in this definition is the wide variation and ambiguities in the definition of the term Chinese. Chinese nationalism - Ideological basis. Chinese nationalism has drawn from extremely diverse ideological sources including traditional Chinese thinking, American progressivis ...

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Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese abacus

The suanpan (Simplified: 算盘; Traditional: 算盤; Hanyu Pinyin: suànpán) of the Chinese dates from the Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 184 CE). However, it rose to prominence during the Yuan Dynasty (1271 CE - 1368 CE). The Chinese abacus is typically around 20 cm (8 inches) tall and it comes in various widths depending on the application. It usually has more than seven rods. There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and hexadecimal comp ...

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Chinese: Encyclopedia II - Chinese Filipino - Chinese Mestizos

See also: Mestizos in the Philippines. Chinese mestizos are those in the Philippines of mixed Chinese and either Filipino or Spanish (or both) ancestry. They make up about another 20% of the country's total population (those who are pure Chinese make up 2% of the population). A number of Chinese mestizos have surnames that reflect their heritage, mostly two or three syllables that have Chinese roots (e.g., the full name of a Chinese ancestor) with a Spanish phonetic spelling. The Chinese mestizos may also be known as Chinoys or Chinitos, although these terms ...

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