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The Oriental riff and interpretations of it have been included as part of numerous musical works in Western music. Examples of its use include Poetic Tone Pictures (Poeticke nalady) (1889) by Antonin Dvořák, [6] "Limehouse Blues" by Carl Ambrose and his Orchestra (1935), "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas (1974), "Japanese Boy" by Aneka (1981), [1] [4] The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" (1980 ...
The Six Healing Sounds or Liù Zì Jué (六字訣) is one of the common forms of Chinese qigong, and involves the coordination of movement and breathing patterns with specific sounds. History [ edit ]
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. Sometimes a chau gong is referred to as a Chinese gong, but in fact, it is only one of many types of suspended gongs that are associated with China. A chau gong is made of copper-based ...
Gongche notation or gongchepu is a traditional musical notation method, once popular in ancient China.It uses Chinese characters to represent musical notes.It was named after two of the Chinese characters that were used to represent musical notes, namely "工" gōng and "尺" chě.
The phrase became a meme and caused an outcry on the Internet and led to serious soul-searching about materialism in early 21st-century Chinese society. Jia Junpeng – a post on the Baidu Tieba World of Warcraft forum which attracted more than 400,000 viewers and 17,000 replies, despite only consisting of the text "Jia Junpeng, your mother is ...
Chinese gymnast Zhou Yaqin watched her Italian competitors bite down on medals during the Olympics. It became a meme. Chinese gymnast's reaction to competitors biting medals becomes meme: 'So ...
In Chinese mythology, Ling Lun is said to have created bamboo flutes which made the sounds of many birds, including the mythical phoenix. "In this way, Ling Lun invented the five notes of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which is equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in numbered musical notation or do, re, mi, sol, and la in western solfeggio) and the eight sounds ...
Moha (Chinese: 膜蛤; pinyin: Mó Há, pronounced), literally "admiring toad" or "toad worship", [1] is an internet meme spoofing Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount leader. It originated among the netizens in mainland China and has become a subculture on the Chinese internet