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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. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Explanatory chart of Chinese timekeeping. Traditional Chinese timekeeping refers to the time standards for divisions of the day used in China until the introduction of the Shixian calendar in 1628 at the beginning of the Qing dynasty. [1] [2]

  4. Chinese variety art - Wikipedia

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    Chinese variety art (simplified Chinese: 杂技艺术; traditional Chinese: 雜技藝術; pinyin: zá jì yì shù) refers to a wide range of acrobatic acts, balancing acts and other demonstrations of physical skill traditionally performed by a troupe in China. Many of these acts have a long history in China and are still performed today.

  5. Oomancy - Wikipedia

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    The word oomancy is derived from two Greek words, oon (an egg) and Manteia (divination), which literally translates into egg divination. Oomancy was a common form of divination practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, where it was believed that one could tell the future by interpreting the shapes formed when the separated whites from an egg was dropped into hot water.

  6. Why China Won’t Allow Single Women to Freeze Their Eggs - AOL

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    In China, the ruling Communist Party has had a say over family planning for years, though officials have gradually loosened rules around the one-child policy by allowing families to have two ...

  7. Ziwei doushu - Wikipedia

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    Ziwei doushu, sometimes translated into English as purple star astrology, is a form of fortune-telling in Chinese culture.The study of destiny (Chinese: 命學; pinyin: mìngxué) is one of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics.

  8. China starts to reverse its 'uninvestible' image: Chart of ...

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    After China announced broad measures to rescue its economy, Chinese stocks surged, our Chart of the Week shows. It's not the first time the country has attempted to get out of the recent doldrums ...

  9. Strident or restrained: China's juggling act as it decides ...

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    China held off on its military drills around Taiwan until after the departures of Macron and von der Leyen, as well as former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who was in China until Friday on a ...