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Four Beauties. The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four Chinese women who were renowned for their beauty. The four are usually identified as Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, and Yang Guifei. [ 1] The scarcity of historical records concerning them meant that much of what is known of them today has been greatly embellished by legend.
The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
Goosebumps. episodes. Goosebumps is a children's anthology horror television series based on R. L. Stine 's best-selling book series of the same name. It originally aired on the Fox Kids Network from 1995 to 1998. All together, 43 of the original 62 books were adapted, along with nine stories from the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series, and ...
Lady Meng Jiang or Meng Jiang Nü ( Chinese: 孟姜女; pinyin: Mèng Jiāng Nǚ) is a Chinese tale with many variations. Later versions are set in the Qin dynasty, when Lady Meng Jiang's husband was pressed into service by imperial officials and sent as corvee labor to build the Great Wall of China. Lady Meng Jiang heard nothing after his ...
Wuxia (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, and video games.
Guzhuang ( Chinese: 古装; pinyin: gǔzhuāng; lit. 'ancient costume'), also called ancient-style dress, [1] : 189 refers to a style of Chinese costume attire which are styled or inspired by ancient Chinese clothing (typically Hanfu or Qizhuang ). [2] [3] Guzhuang is typically used as stage clothes in Chinese opera [1] : 189 and in Chinese ...
Mystery Science Theater 3000. episodes. Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and originally produced by Best Brains, Inc. The show premiered on KTMA (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. The next year, in 1989, the show began its national run on The Comedy ...
The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC. Prominent examples include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form of written Chinese ...