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The familiar "Chinese" gong (a 10-inch (25 cm) chau gong) Large gong at Ashikaga Banna-ji. By far the most familiar to most Westerners is the chau gong or bullseye gong. Large chau gongs, called tam-tams [7] have become part of the symphony orchestra.
Gonggong (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ ɡ ɒ ŋ /) is a Chinese water god who is depicted in Chinese mythology and folktales as having a copper human head with an iron forehead, red hair, and the body of a serpent, or sometimes the head and torso are human, with the tail of a serpent. [1] [2] He is destructive and is blamed for various cosmic catastrophes.
Gong Gong Gong performed their first show at the closing party for Beijing venue XP in summer 2015. Bassist Joshua Frank was born in Montreal to Canadian diplomatic workers, and spent many years growing up in Beijing in the 1990s, before returning in 2006 and forming the band Hot & Cold with his brother.
Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts. Gong (or kung) is often translated as cultivation or work, and definitions include practice, skill, mastery, merit, achievement, service, result, or accomplishment, and is often used to mean gongfu (kung fu) in the traditional sense of achievement through ...
Gong Gong Quan (Maternal Grandfather Quan), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Alpha Gong Gong (Alpha-verse Grandfather), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Gong Gong (Chinese: 公公), a character from the Singaporean TV show Happy Can Already! 4
Female performer with five-gong yunluo, from Chinese engraving. The yunluo (simplified: 云锣; traditional: 雲鑼 pinyin: yúnluó, [y̌nlu̯ɔ̌]; literally "cloud gongs" or "cloud of gongs"), is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. [1] It is made up of a set of gongs of varying sizes held within a frame.
Gong is the pinyin romanization of several distinct Chinese surnames, including 宫, 龔, 共, 公, 鞏, 功, 貢, and 弓. It may also be an alternative transcription of the surname Kong ( Chinese : 孔 , Korean : 공 ), or the Jyutping romanization of the Chinese surname Jiang .
Gong used for Chiang Kai-shek on the paifang at the Cihu Mausoleum on Taiwan. Gong was a title of ancient and imperial Chinese nobility roughly equivalent to and usually translated as duke.