enow.com Web Search

Search results

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabakan

    Dabakan is derived from the word, dbak meaning to "hit, strike, or beat," meaning that the dabakan is something upon which you hit. Scholars also suggest that another clue is that the dabakan may have been an adaptation and enlargement of a pan-Arabic goblet drum , the dombak / tombak .

  3. List of Chinese surnames taken by the Manchu clans

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_surnames...

    Most of the Manchu clans took on their Han surnames after the demise of the Qing dynasty.Several clans took on Han identity as early as in the Ming dynasty period. The surnames were derived from the Chinese meaning of their original clan name, Chinese transliteration of the clan's name, the possessed territories, generation and personal names of the clansmen and also inspired by the surnames ...

  4. Names of China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China

    Some Chinese and Indian scholars argued for the state of Jing (荆, another name for Chu) as the likely origin of the name. [94] Another suggestion, made by Geoff Wade, is that the Cīnāh in Sanskrit texts refers to an ancient kingdom centered in present-day Guizhou , called Yelang , in the south Tibeto-Burman highlands. [ 96 ]

  5. Chinese culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture

    Chinese cuisine is a very important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has influenced many other cuisines in Asia , with modifications made ...

  6. Peranakan Chinese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan_Chinese

    Peranakan culture, especially in the dominant Peranakan centres of Malacca, Singapore, Penang, Phuket, and Tangerang, is characterized by its unique hybridization of ancient Chinese culture with the local cultures of the Nusantara region, the result of a centuries-long history of transculturation and interracial marriage.

  7. Hundred Family Surnames - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Family_Surnames

    Hundred Family Surnames poem written in Chinese characters and Phagspa script, from Shilin Guangji written by Chen Yuanjing in the Yuan dynasty. The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.

  8. Kulintang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulintang

    Ensembles didn't necessary have to have five instruments like formal performances: they could be composed of only four instruments (three gandingan gongs, a kulintang, an agung, and a dabakan), three instruments (a kulintang, a dabakan, and either an agung or three gandingan gongs) or simply just one instrument (kulintang solo). [12]

  9. Han Chinese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese

    Han Chinese people and culture later spread southwards in the Chinese mainland, driven by large and sustained waves of migration during successive periods of Chinese history, e.g. the Qin (221–206 BC) and Han (202 BC – 220 AD) dynasties, leading to a demographic and economic tilt towards the south, and the absorption of various non-Han ...