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The eponymous title Baopuzi derives from Ge Hong's hao (號), the hao being a type of sobriquet or pseudonym. Baopuzi literally means "The Master Who Embraces Simplicity;" [1] compounded from the words bao meaning "embrace; hug; carry; hold in both arms; cherish"; pu meaning "uncarved wood", also being a Taoist metaphor for a "person's original nature; simple; plain"; and, zi meaning "child ...
An orange-tree (Citrus reticulata)Ju Song (simplified Chinese: 橘颂; traditional Chinese: 橘頌; pinyin: Jú sòng; lit. 'In praise of an orange') is a Classical Chinese poem which has been preserved in the Nine Pieces (Jiu Zhang) section of the ancient Chinese poetry anthology, the Chu ci, or The Songs of Chu.
Robert Morrison (1782-1834) is credited with several historical firsts in addition to the first bidirectional Chinese and English dictionary. He was the first Protestant missionary in China, started the first Chinese-language periodical in 1815, [5] collaborated with William Milne to write the first translation of the Bible into Chinese in 1823, helped to found the English-language The Canton ...
Diagram 1 The Type of Hymns in Different Versions of HUP [1] [3]. To ensure that HUP1936 was a Chinese hymnal, the hymnal committee, led by Timothy Ting-Fang Liu (1891–1947, (劉廷芳), the dean of the school of religious studies at Yenching University, requested that HUP1936 should contain at least 10% of Chinese tunes.
The Zhongwen Da Cidian, also known in English as the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, is an unabridged Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Qiyun and others. The first edition had 40 volumes including its radical index in volume 39 and stroke index in volume 40. It was published from 1962 through 1968. [1]
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: Arranged According to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the Pronunciation of the Characters as Heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai or the Hàn-Yīng yùnfǔ 漢英韻府, compiled by the American sinologist and missionary Samuel Wells Williams in 1874, is a 1,150-page bilingual dictionary including 10,940 character headword entries ...
The use of the term Xinhua Zidian has been disputed in China since the publishing of the dictionary is no longer arranged by the government. The Commercial Press insisted that the name is a specific term while other publishing houses believed that it is a generic term, as many of them published their own Chinese dictionary under the name.
Canaan Hymns or Songs of Canaan (Chinese: 迦南诗选; pinyin: Jiānán Shīxuǎn [1] [2]) is a collection of Chinese hymns composed by Lü Xiaomin, beginning in 1990. [3] [4] Lü Xiaomin is a daughter of peasants of the Hui minority born in 1970, [5] who converted to Christianity. [3]