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They uprooted by the very roots the flourishing ma-sakaki trees of the mountain Ame-no-Kaguyama; to the upper branches they affixed long strings of myriad magatama beads; in the middle branches they hung a large-dimensioned mirror; in the lower branches they suspended white nikite cloth and blue nikite cloth.
"The myriad creatures arise side by side, thus I observe their renewal [吾以觀復]. Heaven's creatures abound, but each returns to its roots [各復歸其根], which is called "stillness" [歸根曰靜]. This is termed "renewal of fate [是謂復命]." Renewal of fate is perpetual [復命曰常] – To know the perpetual is to be enlightened"
There are cultural influences dating back to ancient Hellenic, Semitic and Iranian civilizations which diffused and mingled in myriad ways over a period of centuries. [ 274 ] In recent years there has been an increase of diversity acceptance in Turkey, mainly because there was fear of losing values of the Ottoman past .
A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [9] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [10] the Great Wall is called 万 里 长 城 ("Myriad-mile Long Wall"), Zhu Xi's statement 月 映 万 川 ("the moon reflects in myriad rivers") had the sense of supporting greater empiricism in Chinese philosophy, [11 ...
Hu saw the death of Li as an epitome for the oppressive traditional family system, and believed that Li's case could be applied to a myriad of Chinese women. [14] Since Hu's essay on Li Chao came out only a few weeks after Miss Zhao's suicide, the story of Li Chao quickily spread to Hunan, and was immediately compared to Zhao Wuzhen by the New ...
Even with myriad injuries and setbacks, it was still strange to see the Dolphins end up as one of four teams not to have a player selected to this year's Pro Bowl given the substantial investment ...
Produced by Myriad Pictures and distributed by The Weinstein Company — the former film production company founded by the now-disgraced producer and his brother, Bob Weinstein — Death Defying ...
Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...