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The Chinese Wikipedia was established, along with 12 other Wikipedias, in May 2001. At this time, the Chinese Wikipedia did not support Chinese characters, and had no encyclopedic content. In October 2002, the first Chinese-language page, the main page, was written. A software update on 27 October 2002 allowed Chinese language input.
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文 ; Zhōngwén ; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [ d ] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China , as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora .
Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan Sinitic languages , the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family Chinese language , a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese characters in traditional and simplified forms)
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 ...
The Chinese constitution states that the PRC "is a socialist state governed by a people's democratic dictatorship that is led by the working class and based on an alliance of workers and peasants", that the state institutions "shall practice the principle of democratic centralism", [184] and that "the defining feature of socialism with Chinese ...
First Chinese dictionary/encyclopedia c. 2nd cent. BCE: Han dynasty: Shiben: First Chinese encyclopedia of origins, largely a lost work, but later partially reconstructed c. 222 CE: Cao Wei: Huanglan: First Chinese leishu encyclopedia, for Emperor Cao Pi, lost work, with only fragments surviving 624: Tang dynasty: Yiwen Leiju
Cantonese was the dominant Chinese language of the Chinese Australian community from the time the first ethnic Chinese settlers arrived in the 1850s until the mid-2000s, when a heavy increase in immigration from Mandarin-speakers largely from mainland China led to Mandarin surpassing Cantonese as the dominant Chinese dialect spoken. Cantonese ...
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]