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| | CBC News Indepth: China |
 | | Those were the bad old bachelor-community days, when the immigration restrictions prevented Chinese men from bringing in their wives and families. | | | Chinese labourers were at the centre of a little-known chapter of Canadian First World War history. | | | For years, the president of the Vancouver Chinese Benevolent Association made an annual trek to Ottawa to petition for the law to be amended. |
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| | Chinese astrology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chinese Astrology (占星術 pinyin: zhàn xīng shù; 星學 pinyin: xīngxúe ; 七政四餘 pinyin: qī zhèng sì yú; and 果老星宗 pinyin: gǔo lǎo xīng zōng) 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. | | | For example, the Vietnamese zodiac is identical to Chinese zodiac except the fourth animal is the cat not the rabbit, while the Japanese zodiac includes the wild boar instead of the pig. | | | Each year on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar, the birds form a bridge across the Milky Way. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
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| | Chinese astrology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For example, the Vietnamese zodiac is identical to Chinese zodiac except the fourth animal is the cat not the rabbit, while the Japanese zodiac includes the wild boar instead of the pig. | | | The Chinese zodiac signs are also used by cultures other than Chinese. | | | Chinese astrology is the divination of the future from the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals, referred to as the Chinese Zodiac. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_astrology
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| | Chinese Singaporean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Traditionally, the Chinese are adherents of a mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, | | | A minority (20%) of Singaporean Chinese, which is equal to the total number of religious adherents in Singapore to 13.5% are Christian. | | | Buddhism took a downturn, as the rich and educated Chinese Singaporeans viewed Buddhism as an obstacle to the modern context of society. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Singaporean
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| | Chinese astrology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For example, the Vietnamese zodiac is identical to Chinese zodiac except the fourth animal is the cat not the rabbit, while the Japanese zodiac includes the wild boar instead of the pig. | | | The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the names of the element they were associated with: Venus corresponds to Metal (gold); Jupiter to Wood; Mercury to Water; Mars to Fire; Saturn to Earth. | | | Chinese astrology is the divination of the future from the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals, referred to as the Chinese Zodiac. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
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| | Han Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Predominantly Confucianism, Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Traditional Chinese religion. | | | Some of the earliest examples of Chinese writing date back to this period, from chracters inscribed on oracle bone divination. | | | The famous Chinese historian Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian dates the reign of the Yellow Emperor, the legendary ancestor of Han Chinese, to 2698 BCE to 2599 BCE. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese
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| | Buddhism in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Buddhism is a very important religion in China and one of the three major schools of thought along with Confucianism and Taoism. | | | Buddhism was less antithetical to Daoism, the other major religion of China, but at its core Daoism sought harmony with the natural world while Buddhism sought to master the inner world. | | | The year 67 saw Buddhism's official introduction to China with the coming of the two monks Moton and Chufarlan. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Buddhism
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| | Chinese name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Note however, some Chinese people who emigrate to or do business with Western countries sometimes adopt a Westernized name; by simply reversing the "surname-given name" order to "given name-surname", or with a Western first name together with their surname, which is then written in the usual Western order with the surname last. | | | Among Chinese Americans, it is common practice to be referred to primarily by the Western name and to use the Chinese given name as a middle name; for instance, Soong would have "James Chu-yu Soong". | | | Chinese from Mainland China are generally recognizable from the Hanyu pinyin romanization used which includes "x", "zh" and "q" which are not found in other romanization systems and which does not use hyphens. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name
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| | Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There is no consensus on the origin of mythical Chinese dragon, but many scholars agree that it came from totems of different tribes in China. | | | The dragon is one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac which is used to designate years in the Chinese calendar. | | | Since the Chinese consider Huang Di as their ancestor, they sometimes refer to themselves as "the descendants of the dragons". |
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| | Chinese Internet censors face 'hacktivists' in U.S. |
| | She has adopted a Chinese blogger by using her own server in the U.S. to broadcast his very personal musings on religion to the world. | | | Chinese expatriates -- marrying U.S. free-speech politics with protests over persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China -- have focused their energy on breaking China's censorship systems. | | | Many Chinese surfers and bloggers, having a sense of the forbidden words and topics, check themselves before they cross the line. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06045/654754.stm
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| | Alchemy - Philosopher's Stone |
| | Chinese alchemy was consistent from first to last, and there was relatively little controversy among its practitioners, who seem to have varied only in their prescriptions for the elixir of immortality or perhaps only over their names for it, of which one Sinologist has counted about 1,000. | | | Alchemy was not original in seeking these goals, for it had been preceded by religion, medicine, and metallurgy. | | | Alchemy is a form of speculative thought that, among other aims, tried to transform base metals such as lead or copper into silver or gold and to discover a cure for disease and a way of extending life. |
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| | Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | That explains why the Chinese dragon has a body of a snake; the scales and tail of a fish; the antlers of a deer; the face of a qilin (a deer-like mythical creature with fire all over its body); and two pairs of talons of eagles; and the eyes of a demon. | | | In some Chinese legends, an emperor might be born with a birthmark in the shape of a dragon. | | | Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water as the bringer of rain.Chinese dragons are strongly associated with water in popular belief. |
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| | Four Gods Heaven and Earth |
| | The myth of the Four Gods has been deeply rooted in ancient Chinese mythology. | | | The four celestial animals, which have no connection with the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, are also the names of the four divisions of the sky. | | | To the Chinese the tiger was the king of all animals and 'lord of the mountains', and the tiger-jade ornament was specially researved for commanders of armies. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Malaysian Chinese |
| | The majorty of the Chinese Malaysian claim to be Buddhist or Taoist (though the lines between them are often blurred and, typically, a syncretic Chinese religion incorporating elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and traditional ancestor-worship is practised), with the fact that each individual follows it in varying degrees. | | | This diaspora is commonly referred to as the Nanyang Chinese, 'Nanyang' (南洋) being the Mandarin term for Southeast Asia. | | | Most are descendants of Chinese who arrived between the 17th and 19th centuries. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Malaysian-Chinese
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| | Online edition of Daily News - Features |
| | Of all the translators in the history of Chinese Buddhism, the monk Xuan Zang of the Tang Dynasty is considered the greatest. | | | Chinese officials say that Tibet used to be under the Chinese emperor in the past and it now functions as an autonomous region of China. | | | Among the religions in China, Buddhism is the largest. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/10/06/fea02.html
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| | Vampire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are things in which vampires have no power against such as garlic, a branch of wild rose, and all things sacred (e.g., holy water, a crucifix, a rosary, or sacred objects from other faiths). | | | This vampire is believed to return and do malicious things and/or suck the blood of a person (usually a relative who had caused their death, or hadn't properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying them as was proper). | | | Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease (contagious demonic possession), with its undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian Europe where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire
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| | Chinese style name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thus Confucius, whose Chinese name was Kong Qiu, who was the second son in his family, was given the zi Zhongni (仲尼), where the first character zhong indicates that he was the second brother. | | | The zi, sometimes called the biaozi or 'courtesy name', is a name traditionally given to Chinese males at the age of 20, marking their coming of age. | | | A Chinese style name, sometimes also known as a courtesy name (zi), is an extra name that could be used in place of one's given name. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_courtesy_name
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| | Hui people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú) are a Chinese ethnic group, typically distinguished by their practice of the Islamic religion. | | | However, many Hui and other believe that the label is appropriate because the Hui have a history and culture that would not be such without their being Muslim, and thus setting them apart from other Chinese groups. | | | A common Chinese term for Islam is "the religion of the Hui" (回教; Huíjiào), though the most prevalent is the transliteration Yisilan religion (伊斯蘭教; 'Yīsīlán jiào). |
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| | Chinese calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chinese Zodiac Chart Find your Chinese Zodiac sign based on your date of birth. | | | The earliest archaeological evidence of the Chinese calendar appears on oracle bones of the late second millennium BCE Shang dynasty. | | | The Chinese zodiac (see Nomenclature and Twelve Animals sections) is only used in naming years—it is not used in the actual calculation of the calendar. |
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| | Rel Note: Chinese Buddhism |
| | Chinese Buddhism conflates Buddhism with Taoism, fusing into one the Indian concern with liberation of the self and Chinese focus on nature. | | | Chinese Buddhism keeps everything of significance that is most characteristic of Taoism, only the place of the Tao is occupied by the Buddha. | | | Devotional Buddhism (worship of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas as divine saviors) is carried out in temples and administered by priests. |
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| | Chinese grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chinese has a unique complement of aspects: for example, there are two perfectives, 了 (-le) and 过 [過] (-guo) which subtly differ in meaning. | | | Chinese is considered to be a topic-prominent language, where the topic of the sentence (defined as "old" information whereupon the sentence is based) takes precedence in the sentence. | | | Chinese grammar—here referring to that of Standard Mandarin—shares a similar system of grammar with the many language varieties or dialects of the Chinese language, different from those employed by other language families, and comparable to the similar features found within, for instance, the Slavic languages or Semitic languages. |
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| | The Golden Elixir Home Page |
| | To read the Chinese texts in this website, you need a computer and a browser which display Chinese characters. | | | Resources for the Study of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism | | | The Golden Elixir is an introduction to some facets of the history and doctrines of Chinese alchemy. |
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http://venus.unive.it/dsao/pregadio
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| | Chinese mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chinese Mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religions that may be passed down orally or written. | | | Historians have conjectured that the Chinese mythology began in 12th century B.C. (close to the time of the Trojan War in Greek Mythology). | | | In Handbook of Chinese Mythology, one of the books commonly referred to is Shan Hai Jing, which to some people is an early encyclopedia of China. |
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| | Chinese New Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The same calendar is used in countries that have adopted the Confucian and Buddhism tradition and in many cultures influenced by the Chinese, notably the Koreans, the tibetan, the Vietnamese and the pagan Bulgars. | | | Although Chinese New Year is not institutionalised as public holiday, these countries recognise the significant number of their citizens who are of Chinese origin. | | | For Buddhist families, the first and last days of the Chinese New Year are practiced vegetarian. |
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| | Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road |
| | Parthian's Buddhist faith was also confirmed by the Chinese records of the missions of the Parthian Buddhist preachers, An-Shih-Kao and An Hsuan during the 2nd century. | | | While numerous pilgrims arrived China from the West, Chinese Buddhist pilgrims were sent to India during different times and the accounts which some of them have left of their travels in the Silk Road provide valuable evidence of the state of Buddhism in Central Asia and India from the 4th to the 7th centuries. | | | Persecution of Buddhism in Gupta empire by the invading Hephthalites |
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | It was founded by a Chinese monk by name Chih-i (538-597) who lived in Chekiang province of China, and formed his doctrines on the basis of the Saddharma-pundarika sutra, an ancient Buddhist text, which he believed to be the vehicle of all other truths. | | | Buddhism entered China a few centuries after the passing away of the Buddha, at a time when Confucianism and Taoism were the predominant religions in a country that was as a big as a continent and rivaled India in historical antiquity and cultural pluralism. | | | Chan Buddhism did not place too much emphasis on meditation, unlike the Zen Buddhism of Japan, but on finding the Buddha mind in the most mundane tasks and conversations of day to day life. |
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| | Chinese historiography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This view of Chinese history has its roots with British views of the orient of the early 19th century. | | | This view of Chinese history sees Chinese society in the 20th century as a traditional society seeking to become modern, usually with the implicit assumption that Western society is the definition of modern society. | | | Most Chinese history that is published in the People's Republic of China is based on a Marxist interpretation of history. |
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| | Han Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Predominantly Confucianism, Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Traditional Chinese religion. | | | Within some variants of Chinese nationalist theory, including the official version espoused by the People's Republic of China, China is composed of many ethnic groups, and promoting the interest and culture of Han Chinese at the expense of the other ethnic groups is known as Han chauvinism, which has a pejorative meaning. | | | The term Han Chinese is sometimes used synonymously with "Chinese" without regard to the 55 other minority Chinese ethnic groups; usage of this kind tends to be frowned upon by Chinese nationals, who regard the phrase Zhongguo ren (中國人) to be a more precise terminology. |
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | Chinese Buddhism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. | | | Chinese Buddhism: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary on Treatise on the Discipline for Attaining Enlightenment | | | The history of Buddhism spans from the 6th century BCE to the present, starting with the birth of the Buddha Siddharta Gautama. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/chinese_buddhism
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| | Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although now nearly extinct in Vietnamese, varying scripts of Chinese characters (hán tự) were once in widespread use to write the language, although hán tự became limited to ceremonial uses beginning in the 19th century. | | | According to Chinese legend, Jiuli was defeated by the military unification of Huang Di and Yandi, leaders of the Huaxia tribe (the ancestors of the Han Chinese) as they struggled for supremacy of the Huang He valley. | | | The large number of Chinese characters is due to their logographic nature — for every morpheme a glyph is required, and variant characters have at times developed for the same morpheme. |
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