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Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Yùfáng mìjué. Wade–Giles. Yü-fang pi-chüeh. Yufang mijue ( Chinese: 玉房秘訣 ), translated into English as Secrets from the Jade Chamber, [1] Secret Formulae from the Jade Alcove, [2] or Secret Instructions from the Jade Chamber, [3] is a Chinese sex manual composed during the Han dynasty .
Four Beauties. The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four Chinese women who were renowned for their beauty. The four are usually identified as Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, and Yang Guifei. [ 1] The scarcity of historical records concerning them meant that much of what is known of them today has been greatly embellished by legend.
History of fishing. Fishing is a prehistoric practice dating back at least 70,000 years. Since the 16th century, fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish, and since the 19th century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board.
The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry ( 詩; Shī ), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have been ...
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Maritime history is the broad overarching subject that includes fishing, whaling, international maritime law, naval history, the history of ships, ship design, shipbuilding, the history of navigation, the history of the various maritime-related sciences ( oceanography, cartography, hydrography, etc.), sea exploration, maritime economics and ...
Chinese History: A New Manual ( Chinese: 中國歷史新手册; pinyin: Zhōngguó lìshǐ xīn shǒucè ), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an encyclopedic and bibliographic guide to Sinology and Chinese history. The New Manual lists and describes published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from pre-history to the twenty-first ...
Su Nü Jing or Su Nü Ching - Classic of the White Madam (素女經), is a Chinese sexology book written before the Han dynasty. It belongs to the Chinese classics and presents the Taoist sexual practices. [1] [2] According to this religious tradition, the book is said to have been written by the Goddess Sunü in the Huang Di era.