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Wuwei Confucius Temple [2] (simplified Chinese: 武威文庙; traditional Chinese: 武威文廟), or Wuwei Confucian Temple, [3] is a Confucian temple located in Liangzhou District, Wuwei City, Gansu Province. [4] It is the largest Confucian temple in Northwest China in terms of scale of construction, [5] covering an area of 15,300 square ...
Wu Boli, Dragon Pine, circa 1400. This painting by the Taoist priest, Wu Boli (active late 14th-early 15th century), depicts an ancient pine tree, also called a dragon pine. Both dragon pine and pine exist as yang elements living near water, a yin element. As such, the dragon pine are symbols of longevity and of the Tao itself.
The other main branch of the priesthood is Zhengyi Taoism, in which priests may marry, eat meat, live in their own homes, and found and manage their own temples or serve in existing folk religious temples.
Wu wei (traditional Chinese: 無為; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wúwéi) is a polymorphic, ancient Chinese concept expressing an ideal practice of "inaction", "inexertion" or "effortless action", [a] [1] [2] as a state of personal harmony and free-flowing, spontaneous creative manifestation.
Princess Wuwei (武威公主), also known as Princess Tuoba, daughter of Emperor Mingyuan of Northern Wei in ancient China; Princess Wuwei (武威公主), daughter of Juqu Mujian and Princess Tuoba in ancient China
Huangze Temple is a Buddhist temple west of Guangyuan, along the banks of the Jialing River and at the foot of Wulong Mountain. It is the only temple that is dedicated to Wu Zetian . Huangze Temple also has 6 caves, 41 niches, 1203 sculptures all on a cliff, which were created from the Northern Wei period to the Ming and Qing .
Lapsang souchong, a Wuyi tea and possibly the first black tea to be produced, [13] was separately traded as "Souchong" for a higher price, while the highest quality black tea was given the name "Pekoe" (Chinese: 白花; pinyin: báihuā; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-hoe), referring to the downy white hair on the young leaves). The term "Bohea" came to ...
In Fujian's Anxi County, there was a run-down temple which held an iron statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Every day on the walk to his tea fields, a poor farmer named Wei would pass by and reflect on the temple's worsening condition. "Something has to be done," he thought. Being poor, Wei did not have the means to repair the temple.