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Rat tribe (Chinese: 鼠族; pinyin: shǔzú) is a neologism used to describe low income migrant workers who live in underground accommodations within Chinese cities. [1] As 2015, official estimates are of 281,000 people living in Beijing 's underground, although estimates of up to one million have also been widely reported.
In Bihar, the word Musahar is said to be derived from the Bhojpuri mūs+ahar (literally rat eater), on account of their traditional occupation as rat catchers. [4] [clarification needed] Risley thinks that Musahar is the name that their Hindu masters gave them because of their non-Aryan and unclean habit of eating field mice. [5]
This development in Chinese thinking was mirrored in the expansion of the meaning of the term Zhonghua minzu. Originally coined by the late Qing philologist Liang Qichao, Zhonghua minzu initially referred only to the Han Chinese. It was then expanded to include the Five Races Under One Union, based on the ethnic categories of the Qing. [31] [32]
The tunnels of the Underground City run beneath Beijing's city center, covering an area of 85 square kilometres (33 sq mi) 8 to 18 metres (26–59 ft) under the surface. [1] [2] At one time there were about 90 entrances to the complex, all of which were hidden in shops along the main streets of Qianmen. [5]
"Behavioral sink" is a term invented by ethologist John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation.The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. [1]
The Imperial Ancestral Temple, or Taimiao (simplified Chinese: 太庙; traditional Chinese: 太廟; pinyin: Tàimiào) of Beijing, is a historic site in the Imperial City, just outside the Forbidden City, where during both the Ming and Qing dynasties, sacrificial ceremonies were held on the most important festival occasions in honor of the imperial family's ancestors.
Wu on the cover of Time, 8 September 1924; he was the first Chinese person to feature on the cover. Wu Peifu [1] (also spelled Wu P'ei-fu [2]) (Chinese: 吳佩孚; April 22, 1874 – December 4, 1939) was a Chinese warlord and major figure in the Warlord Era in China from 1916 to 1927.
A pair of huabiao originally from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing are now located within the grounds of Peking University ; Two pairs of huabiao near the Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge) at the southwestern outskirts of Beijing. One pair is located at the eastern end of the bridge, the other at the western end, flanking the roadway.