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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [8]

  3. Golden Week (China) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Week (simplified Chinese: 黄金周; traditional Chinese: 黃金週), in the People's Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000: [1] Chunyun [disputed – discuss], the Golden Week around the Chinese New Year, begins in January or February.

  4. Thủ Dầu Một - Wikipedia

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    Thủ Dầu Một (listen ⓘ) is the capital city of Bình Dương province, Vietnam, located at around The city has an area of 118.91 km², with a population of 373.105 (as of 2024), [2] [3] and is located 20 km north of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, on the left bank of the Saigon River, upstream from the city.

  5. Public holidays in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Formerly held on April 8 (in Chinese calendar) until 1959. Buddhist festival, former public holiday of Vietnam until 1975 5 of 5th month: Tết Đoan Ngọ: Tết Đoan Ngọ: The day the sun is closest to the Earth - overlapping with the Summer solstice Also called the festival of eliminating insects and pests to protect the farms 15 of 7th month

  6. Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...

  7. Đinh Bộ Lĩnh - Wikipedia

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    Đinh Bộ Lĩnh was born in 924 in Hoa Lư (south of the Red River Delta, in what is today Ninh Bình Province).Growing up in a local village during the disintegration of the Chinese Tang dynasty that had dominated Vietnam for centuries, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh became a local military leader at a very young age.

  8. Tết Đoan Ngọ - Wikipedia

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    Compared to Cantonese Chinese term "dyun eng" (which is duan wu in Mandarin Chinese) ngo/eng/wu all refer to the ancient Chinese calendar term: the seventh of the twelve Earthly Branches, which was a component for determining time based on a series of 60 years (just as today we refer to 100 year periods as centuries).) Ngo/eng/wu refers to the ...

  9. National Day of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia

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    National Day (Chinese: 国庆节; pinyin: guóqìng jié; lit. 'national celebration day'), officially the National Day of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国庆节), is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People's Republic of China, commemorating Mao Zedong's formal proclamation of the establishment of the People's ...