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The original Xi'an Stele remains in the Forest of Steles. It is now exhibited in the museum's Room Number 2, and is the first stele on the left after the entry. When the official list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad was promulgated in 2003, the stele was included into this short list of particularly valuable and ...
As soon as details started to trickle out from Monday’s meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and leading business executives, Chinese commentators pored over photos and video to figure ...
The Shenxian Zhuan, sometimes given in translation as the Biographies of the Deities and Immortals, is a hagiography of immortals [1] and description of Chinese gods, partially attributed to the Daoist scholar Ge Hong (283-343).
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(Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) Later in the day, Quan was again joined by some of his fellow Goonies when Sean Astin, Cohen, Green and Feldman joined him at the premiere of his new film, "Love ...
President Trump took a call from former President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen after winning the 2016 election. Getty Images. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has not ruled out the use of military force to ...
The Xi'an City Wall is on the tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage Site under the title "City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties". Since 2008, it is also on the list of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China. Since March 1961, the Xi'an City Wall is a heritage National Historical and Cultural Unit.
Schafer noted xian was cognate to xian 䙴 "soar up", qian 遷 "remove", and xianxian 僊僊 "a flapping dance movement"; and compared Chinese yuren 羽人 "feathered man; xian" with English peri "a fairy or supernatural being in Persian mythology" (Persian pari from par "feather; wing").