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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [8]

  3. Public holidays in China - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese New Year and National Day holidays are three days long. The week-long holidays on May (Labor) Day and National Day began in 2000, as a measure to increase and encourage holiday spending. The resulting seven-day or eight-day (if Mid-Autumn Festival is near National Day) holidays are called " Golden Weeks " ( 黄金 周 ), and have ...

  4. Golden Week (China) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Week (simplified Chinese: 黄金周; traditional Chinese: 黃金週), in the People's Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000: [1] Chunyun [disputed – discuss], the Golden Week around the Chinese New Year, begins in January or February.

  5. Public holidays in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Formerly held on April 8 (in Chinese calendar) until 1959. Buddhist festival, former public holiday of Vietnam until 1975 5 of 5th month: Tết Đoan Ngọ: Tết Đoan Ngọ: The day the sun is closest to the Earth - overlapping with the Summer solstice Also called the festival of eliminating insects and pests to protect the farms 15 of 7th month

  6. Mai Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Mai or Maihua (simplified Chinese: 迈话; traditional Chinese: 邁話; pinyin: Màihuà, meaning 'Mai speech') is a variety of Chinese of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of 崖县 Yáxiàn in southern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China.

  7. Shumai - Wikipedia

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    In Guangzhou, siu mai (燒賣) and har gow (蝦餃), along with char siu bao (叉燒包), and egg tarts (蛋撻), are considered the classic dishes of Cantonese dim sum cuisine. They are collectively referred to as the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the cuisine. (Chinese: 四大天王; pinyin: sì dà tiān wáng; Cantonese Yale: sei daaih tīn wòhng).

  8. Fangs of Fortune - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Title Artist Lyrics Composer Notes 1. "Little Verse" 小诗句 Hou Minghao, Chen Duling, Tian Jiarui, Cheng Xiao, Lin Ziye, Xu Zhenxuan, Yan An & Lai Weiming Guo Jingming, Li Muzi Ren Shuai Ending theme song 2. "Fangs of Fortune" 大梦归离 Li Yuchun: Guo Jingming Liu Zhaolun Theme song 3. "Dream's Candlewick" 梦的烛衣 Zhang ...

  9. Tổ tôm - Wikipedia

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    It is similar to the Chinese game of Khanhoo. [ citation needed ] Literally, tổ-tôm means ‘nest of shrimps’; however, when written in Sino-Vietnamese characters ( Chữ Nôm ) it is read tụ tam (bài) (Chinese 聚 三 牌 ju san pai ), ‘gathering three cards’, [ 4 ] namely the three suits of Văn, Sách, and Vạn of the deck of cards.