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  2. Egg balancing - Wikipedia

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    A 1945 Life article reported on "an egg-balancing craze" among the population of Chongqing (the interim capital of China during World War II) on that year's Lichun. [5] That article and subsequent followings-up started a similar egg-balancing craze in the United States, but transposed to the vernal equinox beginning Western spring on March 20 or 21 when the sun is at the celestial longitude of ...

  3. Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Four Pests Campaign in post-revolutionary China targeted rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows based on specific perceived threats to public health and agriculture. Rats, carriers of diseases with the potential to transmit illnesses to humans, were deemed a significant hazard to public health and were known to inflict damage on stored ...

  4. Danbing - Wikipedia

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    Like many other Taiwanese dishes, the original version of the danbing came from mainland China with the Kuomintang after the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949. However, gradually over time, the dish has been modified to suit the taste of local Taiwanese people and has since become a unique Taiwanese breakfast dish and an icon of Taiwanese cuisine.

  5. Egg fried rice protests - Wikipedia

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    As he was making a pan of egg fried rice, he is said to have perished in a napalm attack by American forces on the area, who were drawn to the cooking fire. [1] While some doubt the story's authenticity, [1] internet users have taken to posting egg fried rice recipes yearly during October or November as a form of protest against the Chinese ...

  6. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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    Blast furnace: Although cast iron tools and weapons have been found in China dating from the 5th century BC, the earliest discovered Chinese blast furnaces, which produced pig iron that could be remelted and refined as cast iron in the cupola furnace, date from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and the vast majority of early blast-furnace sites ...

  7. Stonewalling (film) - Wikipedia

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    Although shot in China, the film is classified as a Japanese production. It is the third and final film in a trilogy that includes Egg and Stone (2012) and The Foolish Bird (2017), films which depict young womanhood in contemporary China. The film stars Yao Honggui, who also appeared in the first two films, as a young Chinese woman struggling ...

  8. Category:Chinese folklore - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 January 2024, at 13:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Chinese cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Classic Food of China. (London: Macmillan, rpr 1994, 1992). ISBN 9780333576717. Martin Yan. Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking: 200 Traditional Recipes from 11 Chinatowns around the World. (New York: Morrow, 2002). ISBN 0060084758. Georgina Freedman. Cooking South of The Clouds: Recipes and Stories From China's Yunnan Province. (Octopus; Kyle, 2018).