Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese, the ancient form of spoken Chinese
•
Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese, the form now known as "Ancient Chinese" in China
•
Middle Chinese, the form employed by the Tang poets and often known as "Ancient Chinese" in older English texts
Most of the characters of Fuzhou dialect stem from Ancient Chinese and can therefore be written in Chinese characters.
•
Quite a few words from Ancient Chinese (mainly Ancient Wu and Ancient Chu) have retained the original meanings for thousands of years, while their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese have either fallen out of daily use or varied to different meanings.
Chinese | Ancient Rome | Chinese language | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek | Han Chinese | Chinese people | Mandarin Chinese | Chinese cuisine | Chinese: | Chinese New Year | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ancient Rome | Chinese dragon | Chinese Civil War | Chinese Taipei | Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | Chinese American | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Traditional Chinese characters | ancient Egypt | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | ancient Greece | Chinese yuan | Standard Chinese | Chinese poetry | Chinese characters | Chinese zodiac | Chinese painting |
Rocket-based weapons have a long history, from the black powder fire arrows used by the ancient Chinese to the Congreve rocket referenced in "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.
The new era name was drawn from an aphorism attributed to the ancient Chinese emperor, Great Shun (大舜): "Shun reads the Heavens, and so brings together all seven governments" (舜察天文、斉七政).
While a resident, Gaulke published "Impedement", a handmade book that investigates the abuse of women’s footwear and feet through the ages-from the ancient Chinese foot binding to high heeled shoes of the present.
China Zun name comes from the zun, an ancient Chinese wine vessel which inspired the building design, according to the developers, the CITIC Group.
Ancient Chinese astronomers designated names to the visible stars systematically, roughly more than one thousand years before Johann Bayer did it in a similar way.
The temple's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD) architecture is faithful to the traditional style of buildings, Chinese gardens, and statuary of ancient Chinese monasteries.
In their 1982 book Cosmic Serpent (page 155) Victor Clube and Bill Napier reproduce an ancient Chinese catalogue of cometary shapes from the Mawangdui Silk Texts, which includes a swastika-shaped comet, and suggest that some of the comet drawings were related to the breakup of the progenitor of Encke and the Taurid meteoroid stream.
Foursome of Nine Dragon Island, a set of four fictional characters featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods
They talk about everything from ancient Chinese ceremonies, to the overzealous gamers in the Taipei internet cafes.
Integrated into Ishido is a, oracle, way to ask questions of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.
The story, characters and contents are based on the ancient Chinese folklore story collection Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
He was well versed in ancient Chinese classics and duilian and could recite the Three Hundred Tang Poems by the age of seven.
for the ancient Chinese board game, see Liubo
Yuwen Mogui, the ancient Chinese chieftain of the Yuwen tribe.
Her father has always encouraged her interests, among them her intense interest in "oracle bones" (the study of ancient Chinese characters craved on bones) and the singing of Chinese opera.
Abyss then promised he wouldn't destroy the title, but keep it, due to the teachings of ancient Chinese war strategist Sun Tzu.
Wang Zhaojun (1st century BC), also known as Wang Qiang, ancient Chinese beauty
Weiyang Palace (未央宫), ancient Chinese palace near the city of Chang'an, currently known as Xi'an
Currently she is working on a musical system and set of compositions based on the I Ching (Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese text, which led Cage to the develop the technique of "chance operations" in the 1950s.
Yang Zhu, also known as Yang Zi (Master Yang), ancient Chinese philosopher
It was discovered in 1986 during the analysis of the Bo Xian meteorite and is named after Zhang Heng, an ancient Chinese astronomer.