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• CIIC:Today's featured article/November9, 2011
  [[file: wine goblet.JPEG|thumb|200px|left|the bronze wine goblet made in the period]] ...which started in 841 BC. [[The Chronological Table of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties|(More...)]]
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• CIIC:Selected anniversaries/April 20
  ...inent Chinese mathematician during the [[Southern and Northern Dynasties]] period (420-589), was born.
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• The Chronological Table of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties
  [[file: brozne.JPEG|thumb|250px|left|the art of bronze in that period]] ...ang and Zhou Dynasties''' after researches by 200 experts over a period of five years. The new timetable reaches a history that was 1,200 years earlier tha
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• Five Dynasties
  ...e dynasties. This period in Chinese history is referred to as the "'''Five Dynasties'''."
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• Sackler Museum of Art and Archeology at Peking University
  ...South and North Dynasties, Sui Tang Dynasties, and Song Liao Jin Yuan Ming Dynasties. In addition, the museum holds an annual special exhibition which mostly gi
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• Miyun Museum
  ...], [[Jin]] and [[Liao]] Dynasties, [[Yuan Dynasty]], [[Ming]] and [[Qing]] Dynasties. It displays more than 30 photos, among which important ones are Liao Dynas
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• CIIC:Today's featured article/January 16, 2010
  ...[[BC]]). Distinctive gardens continued to appear throughout the subsequent dynasties, but it was during the [[Ming]] (1368 - 1644) and [[Qing]] (1644 - 1911) th
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• Jing'an Temple
  ...en 1851 and 1861. The existent temple was rebuilt in 1880 during the reign period of Qing Emperor Guangxu with the help of donations. Since 1949, Jing’an T ...asty, a stone figure of the Buddha sculptured in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and a few painting and calligraphy works by well-known masters such as [[Z
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• Yuantong Temple
  ...al records, Yuantong Temple was converted into a Taoist temple for a brief period, and as a result both Buddhist and Taoist influences are seen in some build
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• CIIC:Today's featured article/November 7, 2009
  ...[[BC]]). Distinctive gardens continued to appear throughout the subsequent dynasties, but it was during the [[Ming]] (1368 - 1644) and [[Qing]] (1644 - 1911) th
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• Hubei Provincial Museum
  ...a blue porcelain lotus-shaped cup from the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period (420-589), terra-cotta musician figurines from the [[Tang Dynasty]] (618-90
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• Beijing Ancient Observatory
  ...ropean system of astronomical measurement was introduced in the [[Kangxi]] period (1662-1722), and at the same time new types of instruments were designed an ...observatory are representative works of science and technology of the Qing period.
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• Eastern Thousand Buddhas Grottoes
  ...ls dating mainly from the [[Western Xia]] (1038-1227) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties. ...tness to the cultural assimilation of different peoples in the Western Xia period.
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• Seal Engraving
  ...ient Chinese characters first originated in the [[Yin Dynasty]] (the later period of the [[Shang Dynasty]], 16th-11th century BC) as inscriptions on animal b ...'), ''xi'' (royal seal) engraving had emerged in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). In the [[Warring States]] (475-221BC), the difference between
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• Door God
  ...and have been known as door gods ever since. During the [[Five Dynasties]] Period, Zhong Kui became the new door god. The [[Song Dynasty]] saw the further de
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• Yulin Grotto Temple
  ...g the [[Tang]], [[Five Dynasties]], [[Song]], [[Western Xia]] and [[Yuan]] dynasties. Cave 25 is the most compelling example of those created during the Tubo ([ ...and north sides of the east wall in Cave 2, dates from the [[Western Xia]] period. In a tranquil field full of singing birds and fragrant flowers, the Goddes
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• Huanxiu Mountain Villa
  ...uanliao]], [[King Guangling]] of Wuyue State during the [[Five Dynasties]] Period (907-960). At the turn of the 17th century during the [[Ming Dynasty]], it
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• Museum of Ancient Pottery Civilization
  ...tes period]] and Qin and Han Dynasties, and over 1000 lutes of Qin and Han Dynasties, as well as about 3000 ancient potteries of other fields concerned.
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• Imperial Academy
  ...highest educational institution in the country in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The academy was first built in the [[Yuan Dynasty]] on the east side of th The academy was renovated in the reign period of [[Emperor Qianlong]] of the [[Qing Dynasty]], in the style of a Confucia
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• Shangzhuang Village
  ...icial and commoner residences alike during the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The scenic area integrates historic building culture, folk customs, rural
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• Chenghuang Miao
  ...-581) and became popular in the [[Tang]] (618-907) and [[Song]] (960-1279) dynasties. In ancient legends, people who had lived upright lives would become gods a ...o called Huo Guang Memorial Temple. During the Ming Dynasty’s Yongle reign period (1403-24), it was rebuilt as City God Temple by the then county magistrate
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• Kite Flying
  ...to the neighboring countries of Korea and Japan. In the period of the Five Dynasties (707-960), bamboo whistles were tied onto the kites. When these kites were
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• Qintong
  ...s. The town boasts a Buddhist temple dating back to the [[Five Dynasties]] Period (907-960), the [[Shuiyun Tower]] and [[Gushousheng Temple]] built in the [[
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• Xuanmiao Guan
  ...qing Temple, was first built in 276, the second year of the Xianning reign period in the [[Western Jin Dynasty]]. During the [[Yuan Dynasty]], it was given i After being renovated and expanded between the Tang and Qing dynasties, the temple became the largest temple in the areas south of the Yangtze Riv
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• Xinjiang mummies
  ...cs and Archaeology of Xinjiang launched an excavation of 26 Warring States-Period tombs that lay on both sides of Toyuk. The team excavated a large number of ...ne of the 16 states in the western regions of China during the Qin and Han dynasties. The tombs were among the best-preserved of the Subeixi ancient tombs group
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• Xinjiang Mummies
  ...cs and Archaeology of Xinjiang launched an excavation of 26 Warring States-Period tombs that lay on both sides of [[Toyuk]]. The team excavated a large numbe ...ne of the 16 states in the western regions of China during the Qin and Han dynasties. The tombs were among the best-preserved of the Subeixi ancient tombs group
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• Bailin Si
  ...n Temple he presided over was destroyed in war during the [[Five Dynasties Period]] (907-960). It was rebuilt during the early Song Dynasty, but it was razed
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• Baidi City
  ...[[Liu Bei]], king of the State of Shu (221-263) in the [[Three Kingdoms]] period, and his prime minister [[Zhuge Liang]], were enshrined in a temple in the ...yet elegant architecture of the Ming (1368-1644) and [[Qing]] (1644-1911) dynasties.
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• Spring couplets
  ...or gods painted on wood charms in earlier times. During the Five Dynasties Period (907-960), the Emperor Meng Chang inscribed an inspired couplet on a peach
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• Six Classics
  ...the Zhou rites” was by no means a simple retrogression to the Western Zhou period, but was intended as part of a reform needed by his own time. His fundament ...f Songs'' is a collection of poems and songs written from the Western Zhou period onwards. Of the original 3,000, Confucius selected only 305. The central id
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• Dongzhi-Winter Solstice Festival
  ...ing of seasons. As early as 2,500 years ago during the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] (770-476 BC), the Chinese scientists had determined the point of Winter S ...s and friends treated each other with delicious food. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the Winter Solstice was a day to offer scarifies to the Heaven and ancesto
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• Winter Solstice Festival
  As early as 2,500 years ago, about the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] (770-476 BC), China had determined the point of '''Winter Solstice''' by ...s and friends presented to each other delicious food. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the Winter Solstice was a day to offer scarifies to Heaven and ancestors.
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• Great Wall
  ...nd extended, giving rise to the 5,000-kilometer-long Qin Great Wall. Later dynasties from [[Han]] (206 BC – AD 220) to [[Ming]] (1368-1644) continued to build ...s]], is made of large blue bricks and has an average height of 7.8 meters. Five to six horses can be ridden abreast along it. At regular intervals there is
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• Memorial Temple of Qu Yuan
  A great politician and poet in the State of Chu during the [[Warring States Period]] (475-221 BC) [[Qu Yuan]] had been a senior official in the court, but sla ...s engraved with 22 poems by Qu Yuan, eulogistic works by scholars of later dynasties, including great [[Tang]] poets [[Li Bai]] and [[Du Fu]], and records on th
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• Tiantai Sect in Han Buddhism
  ...7) during the interregnum between the Chen (557-589) and [[Sui]] (581-618) dynasties. ...the Saddharma-pundarika-sutra (Lotus Sutra), compiled on the basis of the “five graduated series of deeper meanings,” The Interpretative Commentary on Sa
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• Wuqiao Acrobatics
  ...acrobatics, and the local feudal officials did not practice curfew in the period. ...the Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550) in the [[Southern and Northern Dynasties Period]] (386-581) unearthed from Xiaomachang Village of Wuqiao County in 1958 dep
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• Caoshu
  ...rom the Eastern Han Dynasty to the [[Wei]] (220-265) and [[Jin]] (265-420) dynasties, ''caoshu'' got rid of the trace of ''lishu'' strokes, and employed a large
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• Yongquan Temple
  ...ame was abbreviated as the "Yongquan (Gurgling Spring) Temple." During the period from 1408 (6th year of the Yongle reign) to 1542 (21st year of the Jiaqing
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• Bell and Drum Towers
  ...ling center of the capital city during the [[Yuan]], [[Ming]] and [[Qing]] Dynasties (1271-1911). ...the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties. During the Republican Period of China (1911-1949), many have-nots (impoverished people),along with merch
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• Temple fair
  '''Temple fairs''' ('''庙会''') are very popular in the [[Spring Festival]] period. The tradition of a strolling temple fairs began as groups of vendors did b ...pring Outings," and saw a boom especially during the [[Ming]] and [[Qing]] dynasties (1368-1911) as well as the Republic of China (1912-1949). Major temples all
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• Chongyang Gong
  ...dly affairs. In 1159, the fourth year of the Jin Dynasty’s Zhenglong reign period, Wang Chongyang met an immortal (allegedly Lü Dongbin) in the town of Ganh In 1176, the seventh year of the Dading reign period, he burned his shelter. When his neighbors came to fight the fire, he dance
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• Duo Yun Xuan
  ...has developed the copying technology of wood water printing. After a long period of artistic exploration, it has formed its special artistic style especiall ...or use in study. There are various stored treasures involving all the past dynasties.
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• Mount Heming
  ...tain, such as Du Guangting of the late Tang Dynasty, Chen Tuan of the Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty, and Zhang Sanfeng of the Ming Dynasty, leaving behi ...n is called Jieyuan Pavilion (Jieyuan Ting 解元亭). (During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the jieyuan was the scholar who won first place in the provincial imperial
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• Tongbai Gong of Southern Lineage
  ...used of the crime of burning documents and exiled to the area south of the Five Ridges. He later became an assistant to Lu Shen, a native of Guilin and a G ...e Later Liang Dynasty, one of the Five Dynasties. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Tiantai Daoism became the most popular Daoist sect, and Tongbai Palace bec
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• Longmen Grottoes
  ...the reign of [[Emperor Xiaowen]] and continued through the successive six dynasties, including Tang and Song, for a span of over 400 years. Altogether there ar ...Wuzetian]] (reigned 690-705), can be considered as the most typical of the period. These are composed of a 17.14-meter-high statue of Vairocana Buddha, and a
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• Chinese Chess
  ...first introduced into India at that time. During the [[Sui]] and [[Tang]] dynasties (581-907), we find more historical records about the playing of chess. This
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• Sima Guang
  ...) in two years, which chronicled Chinese history from the [[Warring States period]] to the end of the [[Qin Dynasty]]. The emperor Yingzong was very satisfie ...arrates 1,361 years history of China from the Warring States to the [[Five Dynasties]] (402 B.C. to A.D. 959) under the format of separate chronicles containing
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• Chinese Calligraphy
  ...re all well known for their cursive hand and running hand. During the Qing period (1644-1911), calligraphers were divided into two schools: the stone rubbing ...earliest form of mature Chinese characters. Characters adopted during this period had already developed many distinctive calligraphic features: rhymic stroke
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• Xu Beihong Museum
  ...bition hall are color ink paintings, oil paintings, and sketches from each period of Mr. Xu's career. His explosive, daring "Galloping Horse" symbolizes beau ...he master, works from the [[Tang]], [[Song]], [[Yuan]], [[Ming]], and Qing dynasties up to the May 4th Movement of 1919. All together, there are over 1,200 art
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• Wushu
  ...re “spear and shield” and “sword and shield” practices in pairs. From that period on, wushu was gradually and mainly practiced in routines. Different schools ...many traditional forms of strengthening the muscles and bones, such as the Five-Animal Exercise (an exercise consisting of movements imitating the movement
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• Mount Kongtong
  ...Spontaneity. The Yellow Emperor ascended into heaven and became one of the Five Heavenly Emperors after attaining Dao. He occupied the central position, ta ...rn and Northern Dynasties (220-589). During the Ming Dynasty’s Wanli reign period (1573-1619), the emperor ordered the construction of Daoist temples accordi
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• Ancient bells
  ...e uses of bells during the pre–Qin period and the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties. ...ient Bells." "A Brief History of Ancient Bells." "A Forest of Bells." "The Five Unique Features of the King of Bells." "The Yongle Bell." "Casting Demonstr
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• Three Kingdoms
  ...ors and 1 empress belonging to 14 generations. The Western and Eastern Jin dynasties also saw a number of independent local regimes, known in Chinese history as ...Zhi have left their mark on the development of the wu yan shi (poems with five characters to a line).
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• Mount Wangwu
  ..., the second year of the Tang Dynasty [[Emperor Ruizong]]'s Jingyuan reign period, he was summoned to the imperial palace. Emperor Ruizong inquired about the ...in northern China. However, Daoism gradually declined in the Ming and Qing dynasties, so most palaces and temples on Mount Wangwu were deserted.
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• Han Buddhism
  ...oads into China during the interregnum between the Western and Eastern Han dynasties. ...estward pilgrimages among Chinese monks during the Western and Eastern Jin dynasties (265-420).
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• Suzhou Gardens
  ...[[BC]]). Distinctive gardens continued to appear throughout the subsequent dynasties, but it was during the [[Ming]] (1368 - 1644) and [[Qing]] (1644 - 1911) th
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• Hutong
  ...[[Yuan]] (1279 - 1368), [[Ming]] (1368 - 1644) and [[Qing]] (1644 - 1911) dynasties.[[File:hutong2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|hutong]][[File:hutong3.jpg|200px|thumb During the period of the [[Republic of China]] (1911 - 1948), society was unstable, fraught w
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• Ceramic in China
  ...ce. Below the basin's rim are painted in blue three groups of dancers with five dancers in each group. They have the same costume and hairstyle, and they a ...an eggshell, representing the highest level of pottery making in the late period of the New Stone Age. The speedy development of pottery making gradually ga
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• Sanlun Sect in Han Buddhism
  ...d that spanned the late [[Sui]] (581-618) and the early [[Tang]] (618-907) dynasties. ...the followers of Mahayana Buddhism in jeering at Buddhists of the earlier period on the grounds that they were preoccupied with their own emancipation while
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• The History of Chinese Imperial Food
  ...of the 21st century B.C. Yi Ya of the Qi State in the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] (770 B.C. – 476 B.C.) won the trust of Prince Huan of Qi by being good ...of the Wu State was an assassin in the late years of the Spring and Autumn Period. In order to help Prince Guang ascend to the throne, he learned the unique
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• Teresa Teng
  ...". The album was based on 12 poems from Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties and blended traditional and modern music to cater to both Eastern and Weste During her golden period in the 1980s, Teng re-entered the Japanese market with her albums and becam
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• Worship
  ...-Self principles, Chinese churches have entered into a post-denominational period: institutional Protestant denominations do not exist any longer. In 1958, u Islam arrived in [[China]] during the [[Tang]] and [[Song]] dynasties (618 BC-AD 1279) through trade links. From the [[Yuan Dynasty]] (1271-1368)
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• Traditional Chinese Opera
  ...in northwest China's [[Qinghai Province]], is a picture of three groups of five dancers each. The dancers are hand by hand, each wearing a plait and carryi In the Qin-Han period (221 BC-AD 220), large-scale memorial ceremonies began to be held. Accordin
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• Mount Huashan
  ...ly to Mount Hengshan in the north in height, and it is the steepest of the five mountains and allegedly even of all the mountains in China. There were constant wars during the Five Dynasties Period (907-960) and Chen Tuan, though living in reclusion on the mountain, was co
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• Mount Qingcheng
  ...ad a tower built and ceremoniously gave Ningfeng the title of Elder of the Five Sacred Mountains, allowing him to command the mountains. ...Seasons and Eight Solar Terms. In the main hall is worshiped Elder of the Five Sacred Mountains Perfect Sovereign Ningfeng and Du Guangting. The temple at
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• Yongle Gong
  ...more than 100 years, was completed in the 18th year of the Zhizheng reign period (1358). As it was built in the town of Yongle, it was generally called Yong ...he other buildings during the [[Yuan Dynasty]]. Thirty steles of different dynasties are on display in a spacious and high corridor built on both sides of the c
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• Chinese Music
  ...very of a bone flute made in the New Stone Age. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, only royal families and dignitary officials enjoyed music, which was made ...hree intervals apart, and altogether they can produce a range of more than five octaves, divided into ninety musical tones.
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• Baxian Gong
  ...alace]] during the [[Tang]] (618-907) Dynasty. In the [[Jin]] and [[Yuan]] dynasties, the Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) doctrine prevailed. A large building wa ...the Eight Immortals, and was the leader of the Quanzhen northern lineage’s five patriarchs (Wang Xuanfu, Zhongli Quan, Lü Dongbin, Liu Haichan and Wang Ch
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• Mount Zhongnan
  ...out Tower, various buildings were built on Mount Zhongnan during different dynasties, finally leading to the formation of a whole group of buildings centering o ...d. Legend has it that in 1283, during the second year of the Zhiyuan reign period of the Yuan Dynasty, an incurable pestilence attacked the Zhouzhi area, kil
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• Vinaya Sect in Han Buddhism
  ...ments emerged in the years that followed. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589), studying the vinaya became quite popular among Chinese Buddhists
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• Lunar New Year's Eve
  ..., and have been known as door gods ever since. During the [[Five Dynasties Period]], [[Zhong Kui]] became the new door god. The [[Song Dynasty]] saw the furt During the Five Dynasties Period, [[Meng Chang]], the king of Shu, ordered the scholar [[Xin Yinxun]] to cop
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• Gaoshan ethnic group
  ...nd some of the Paiwan youths have to live in a communal hall for a certain period of time before they are initiated into manhood at a special ceremony. ...a long period of time, these peoples had by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) welded themselves into a new ethnic group known as Fan or Easte
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• Spring Festival
  ...w off their techniques by climbing upon a high table or by stepping across five wooden stakes. For instance, the Gaotai (High Terrace) Lion Dance of [[Sich ...r 30 [[Mongolia]]n warriors held wooden carved animal heads, two large and five small, and clothed themselves animal skins, dancing before the emperor. The
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• Beihai Park
  ...erent effects. So from then on, almost every emperor during the succeeding dynasties would build a royal garden with one-pool-with-three-hills' layout as a fair ...he Liao Dynasty (916 - 1125) and was repaired and rebuilt in the following dynasties including Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing (1115 - 1911). The large-scale rebuildin
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• Chinese Dance
  ...and among officials. As the Chinese theater developed in the Song and Yuan dynasties, dance gradually became an integral part of opera performance. However, a w ...mong All Chinese'', on the great victory won by the revolutionaries; ''The Five Heroes of Mt. Langya'', ''Storming Luding Bridge'', on themes from revoluti
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• Tujia ethnic group
  ...ere a distinct ethnic group in western Hunan by the early [[Five Dynasties period]], around the year 910. After early contact with Hans, they developed metal
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• Yugur ethnic group
  ...e Hexi Ouigurs were assimilated with neighboring ethnic groups over a long period of co-existence from the mid-11th to the 16th century, and developed into a Lamaism began to get the upper hand in the Yugur area in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each tribe had its own monastery. The lamas worked closely with the chiefs
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• Mogao Grottoes
  ...ui]], [[Tang]], [[Song]], [[Western Xia]], [[Yuan]], [[Ming]] and [[Qing]] dynasties. ...ficant, as they contain a large amount of statues and frescos from several dynasties. The caves in the north area were predominantly places for meditation and l
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• Shandong Cuisine
  As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, more than 3,000 years ago, [[Shandong]] was territory of Qi and Lu. Both s ...king, The city's catering trade flourished during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. There were also cooks who sold their cooking skills as "external cooks" at
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• Esoteric Sect in Han Buddhism
  ...mantra and classics had become available as early as the [[Three Kingdoms Period]] (220-265), when some monks from India or the West Territories, well-verse ...g Dynasty. The crackdown was followed by the war and turmoil of the [[Five Dynasties]] (907-960), and as a result the once prosperous Exoteric sect gradually di
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• Qiang ethnic group
  ...ultural ties. Administratively, Han courts from the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties down to the Ming Dynasty all had political units in the Qiang-occupied area For a long period before China’s national liberation in 1949, the Qiangs lived in primitive
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• Uygur ethnic group
  ...rpan all contain a great wealth of relics from the Western and Eastern Han dynasties (206 BC-AD 220). They bear witness to the efforts of the Uygurs and other e ..., Earlier Liang (317-376), Earlier Qin (352-394) and Later Liang (386-403) dynasties all stationed troops and set up administrative bodies there. In 327, Zhang
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• Buddhist Festivals
  ...Yan (502-548), Emperor Wudi of the Liang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Legend has it that Xiao Yan dreamed of a celestial monk saying to him, “ (3) Seven-day Period of Self-Cultivation. This period is divided into two seven-day phases in which a monk is required to intensi
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• Chinese Tea Art
  ...rious teas, and everyone has his own taste. However, water experts of past dynasties shared a lot in common in their evaluation of tea water, stressing sweet an Tea experts of past dynasties had different understandings of water, and they arranged famous water in di
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• Chinese ancient pagodas
  ...ding was called a stupa. From the Jin Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties (265-589), when the Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese, there ...quare meter. On the ceiling of the main cave there is a painting of thirty-five monks sitting in meditation in some remote mountain caves. From their size,
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• Chuanju
  ...d performing arts from across the country all flourished there. For a long period that followed, different art forms blended with the local dialect, customs, ...[Zhang Xianzhong]] at the end of the Ming Dynasty and matured after a long period of evolution. Huqinqiang is a general term used in Sichuan to refer to Erhu
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• Sanxingdui
  ...the most important ancient remains in the world for its vast size, lengthy period and enriched cultural contents. ...d by a farmer in 1929 and excavation has continued ever since. During this period, generations of archaeologists have worked on the discovery and research of
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• Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  ...l architectural design and decoration. They illustrate the continuity over five centuries of a world view and concept of power specific to [[feudal China]] ...862-74), and tombs of the empresses Xiaozhuang, Xiaohui, Ci'an, Ci'xi, and five consorts. All were erected over a span of 272 years.
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• Chan Sect in Han Buddhism
  ...t he wanted to become a monk. When Hongren said that men from south of the Five Ridges had no aptitude for Boddhahood, Huineng replied, “Men may come fro ...rd by his disciple Xiqian, or Monk Shitou, later evolved into three of the five subsects of the Chan: Caodong, Yunmen, and Fayan. Huairang (677-744) came f
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• Hui ethnic group
  Warfare and farming were the two dominant factors of this period. During their westward invasion, the Mongols turned people from Middle Asia ...dopting the Han language and living with the Hans. Since the Yuan and Ming dynasties, large numbers of Hui peasants joined the Hans and people of other ethnic g
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• Yi ethnic group
  ...ere closely related with ancient Di and Qiang people in west China. In the period between the 2nd century B.C. and the early Christian era, the activities of In the Eastern Han (25-220), Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties, inhabitants in these areas came to be known as "Yi," the character for whi
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• Miao ethnic group
  ...referred to as the Miaos in Chinese documents of the [[Tang]] and [[Song]] period (AD618-1279). ...s sacrifices. Feasts would then be held for all the relatives for three to five days.
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• Mongolian ethnic group
  The Stories of Shageder, also produced in this period, has been regarded as the most outstanding work in the treasure-house of Mo ...king, Basic Theories on Medical Science in Four Volumes, Pharmaceutics and Five Canons of Pharmacology. Outstanding contributions have also been made by th
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• Diaoyu Islands
  ...title of Qing Dynasty. Many maps and nautical charts of the Ming and Qing dynasties clearly marked Diaoyu Islands as part of China's territory. In the Cold War period, the US, in order to carry out its strategy of containment, put the Diaoyu
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• The Diaoyu Islands
  ...title of Qing Dynasty. Many maps and nautical charts of the Ming and Qing dynasties clearly marked Diaoyu Islands as part of China's territory. In the Cold War period, the US, in order to carry out its strategy of containment, put the Diaoyu
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• Tibet
  ...or one-eighth of China's land area. With a size equal to the total of the five countries including the Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherland and ...nths from May to September are a wet season, with precipitation during the period accounts for some 90 percent of the annual total. Rainfall is unevenly dist
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• Hunan
  ...limate with distinctive four seasons, sufficient sunshine, long frost-free period and abundant rainfall. It has an average annual sunshine of 1,300-1,800 hou ...f 41 minerals, such as Stibium, Tungsten and Manganese stand among the top five of China.
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• Tibetan
  ...ured peace and stability in the Tibetan areas during the [[Yuan]] and Ming dynasties, and the feudal economy there developed and culture and art flourished. Tib ...court continued the Tusi (headmen) system established by the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and put them under the administration of the [[Xining]] Commissioner's off
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• Tibetan ethnic group
  ...ured peace and stability in the Tibetan areas during the [[Yuan]] and Ming dynasties, and the feudal economy there developed and culture and art flourished. Tib ...court continued the Tusi (headmen) system established by the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and put them under the administration of the [[Xining]] Commissioner's off
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