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Dunhuang manuscripts. Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, from 1906 ...
The Bamboo Annals ( Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián ), also known as the Ji Tomb Annals ( Chinese: 汲冢紀年; pinyin: Jí Zhǒng Jìnián ), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow Emperor) and extends to 299 BC, with the later centuries focusing on the history of the ...
The origin of the phrase is not well documented. In The Chinese looking glass (1967), Dennis Bloodworth asserts the Chinese people have a long association with gambling. He states they believe "it is better to be lucky than clever", concluding the I Ching has encouraged the acceptance of chance and fate: "the philosophy that makes the Chinese the soothsayer's best customer makes him one of the ...
Chinese History: A New Manual ( Chinese: 中國歷史新手册; pinyin: Zhōngguó lìshǐ xīn shǒucè ), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an encyclopedic and bibliographic guide to Sinology and Chinese history. The New Manual lists and describes published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from pre-history to the twenty-first ...
The Book of Documents ( Chinese: 書經; pinyin: Shūjīng; Wade–Giles: Shu King ), or the Classic of History, [ b] is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over two millennia.
Butterflies. Butterfly/ butterflies. A common motif used in Chinese embroidery and in Chinaware. [ 12] The butterfly is a symbol of joy and summer. [ 12] It also implies long life, beauty and elegance. [ 6] Pair of butterflies. Pair of butterflies embroidered on clothing strengthens the energy of love.
Mathematics emerged independently in China by the 11th century BCE. [ 1] The Chinese independently developed a real number system that includes significantly large and negative numbers, more than one numeral system ( binary and decimal ), algebra, geometry, number theory and trigonometry . Since the Han dynasty, as diophantine approximation ...
Restored Mogao Christian painting, possibly a representation of Jesus Christ.The original work dates back to the 9th century. The Jingjiao Documents (Chinese: 景教經典; pinyin: Jǐngjiào jīngdiǎn; also known as the Nestorian Documents or the Jesus Sutras) are a collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from ...