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'Chinese knots') in Chinese and Chinese knotting in English. The term Chinese knotting only became known in recent years when it was summarized by Lydia Chen in the 1980s. [2] It was a tradition to use the lào and/or tāo as a form of yaopei (lit. 'waist girdle ornament') in Hanfu where it was tied to the waist by using silk or cotton ribbon. [1]
Chinese knots come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They are made from a single cord and are often double-layered and symmetrical in all directions. [3] [4] [5] Satin cording is the most widely used material, especially when the knotting is done for clothing and jewellery; however, cotton, parachute cord, and other materials are frequently used as well.
Records of Wenlan Pavilion, an example of a stitched bound book, Qing dynasty Yin shan zheng yao, 1330, Ming dynasty. Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form.
The Chinese and Japanese names for this knot are based on the shape of the ideogram for the number ten, which is in the shape of a cross that appears on one face (and a square on the other face). [2] The Ashley Book of Knots, first published in 1944, says: "A decorative Chinese Loop. This is commonly employed as a Lanyard Knot.
The Pan Chang Knot is one of the eight symbols of Buddhism. It communicates that religion's belief in a cycle of life with no beginning and no end. It was illustrated in a painting of the Emperor Xiaozhong (the second ruling member of the southern Song dynasty, which existed from AD 960 to 1279) that is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
In the late imperial periods, with the wide spread of commercial printing, Chinese novels also became heavily circulated across East and Southeast Asia; [25] [26] it was reported in 1604, several hundreds of titles of Chinese books came through to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki alone, [27] [28] and throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
The great social media migration: Sudden influx of US users to RedNote connects Chinese and Americans like never before Eric Cheung, Joyce Jiang and Hassan Tayir, CNN January 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ashley's bend is a knot used to securely join the ends of two ropes together. It is similar to several related bend knots which consist of two interlocking overhand knots, and in particular the alpine butterfly bend. [1]