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Learn about the history and meaning behind traditional Christmas colors: red, green, gold, white and purple. Experts explain their origins and significace.
Abacus seeds (Chinese: 算盘子) or abacus beads is a Hakka Chinese dish consisting of dimpled, disc-shaped dumplings made with taro and tapioca flour. The dumplings are boiled then stir-fried with minced pork, shiitake or wood ear mushrooms , dried shrimp , dried cuttlefish and firm bean curd .
A suanpan (top) and a soroban (bottom). The two abaci seen here are of standard size and have thirteen rods each. Another variant of soroban. The soroban is composed of an odd number of columns or rods, each having beads: one separate bead having a value of five, called go-dama (五玉, ごだま, "five-bead") and four beads each having a value of one, called ichi-dama (一玉, いちだま ...
Vestments in different liturgical colours. Liturgical colours are specific colours used for vestments and hangings within the context of Christian liturgy.The symbolism of violet, blue, white, green, red, gold, black, rose, and other colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.
The Song dynasty and earlier used the 1:4 type or four-beads abacus similar to the modern abacus including the shape of the beads commonly known as Japanese-style abacus. [30] In the early Ming dynasty, the abacus began to appear in a 1:5 ratio. The upper deck had one bead and the bottom had five beads. [31]
The longer slot with five beads below the Ө position allowed for the counting of 1/12 of a whole unit called an uncia (from which the English words inch and ounce are derived), making the abacus useful for Roman measures and Roman currency. The first column was either a single slot with 4 beads or 3 slots with one, one and two beads ...
Fuse beads are small cylindrical plastic beads that fit tightly onto an array of pegs. [6] The arrangement of pegs on the board constrains the possible patterns that can be produced on that board. Most fuse-beading is done on a square grid pegboard, but there are other arrangements like hexagonal grids . [ 4 ]
At each oblong bead you may either rest in silence, or pray: I give away my loneliness. I receive that I am Yours. 2. Pearly I-Bead You created me as Your own image. Let me see Your image in myself. 3. White Bead of Baptism You have invited me. In Your hands I commend my life. Silence. 4. Sandy Desert Bead Keep me holy and I will be holy kept.