enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Chinese kinship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_kinship

    A Chinese clan is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor. In southern China, clan members could form a village known as an ancestral village. In Hong Kong, clan settlement is exemplified by walled villages. An ancestral village usually features a hall and shrine honoring ...

  3. Chinese kin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_kin

    A zupu (simplified Chinese: 族谱; traditional Chinese: 族譜; pinyin: zúpǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Cho̍k-phó͘) is a Chinese kin register or genealogy book, which contains stories of the kin's origins, male lineage and illustrious members. The register is usually updated regularly by the eldest person in the extended family, who hands on this ...

  4. Systems of social stratification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_social...

    Detailed anthropological and sociological studies have been made about customs of patrilineal inheritance, where only male children can inherit. Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession, where property can only pass along the female line, most commonly going to the sister's sons of the decedent; but also, in some societies, from the mother to her daughters.

  5. Ancestor veneration in China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestor_veneration_in_China

    Chinese ancestor veneration, also called Chinese ancestor worship, [1] [a] is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines. Ancestors, their ghosts, or spirits, and ...

  6. Four Cardinal Principles and Eight Virtues - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Cardinal_Principles...

    Loyalty and filial piety come first. Then we have love, faithfulness, and love of peace. Some who crave the new form of civilization want to throw away these virtues. They say that these old relics have no place in modern civilization. They are wrong, however; because China can ill afford to lose these previous virtues." [8]

  7. Asian values - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_values

    Various definitions of Asian values have been put forth. Generally, the phrase alludes to influences by Confucianism, [1]: 10 in particular, filial piety or loyalty towards the family, corporation, and nation; the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of society's stability and prosperity; the pursuit of academic and technological excellence; and, a strong work ethic together with thrift.

  8. Culture of Taiwan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Taiwan

    The Formosan languages and the Yami language are the native languages of the indigenous Taiwanese, comprising about 2.3% of the island's population. [25] Standard Chinese is the official language and is almost universally spoken and understood. English is taught universally, starting in elementary school.

  9. Society and culture of the Han dynasty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_and_culture_of_the...

    At this point, the Chinese heavily associated Buddhism with Huang-Lao Daoism. [291] Emperor Ming also had the first known Buddhist temple constructed in China, the White Horse Temple of Luoyang. It was allegedly built in honor of the foreign monks Jiashemoteng (迦葉摩騰) (Kāśyapa Mātanga) and Zhu Falan (竺法蘭) (Dharmaratna the Indian ...