I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

The Chinese recorded the first official account of the practice in 2300 BC, but it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

Nonetheless, the English language still enjoys status as an official language, alongside the Chinese language.

The Chinese calendar was also called the " old calendar " ( 舊曆 / 旧历 ) as opposed to the " new calendar " ( 新曆 / 新历 ), i. e., the Gregorian calendar, was adopted as the official calendar.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

The Chinese tradition since the Jin Dynasty ( 3rd century AD ) that emperors of one dynasty would sponsor the writing of the official history of the immediately preceding dynasty has been cited in favor of an ethnically inclusive interpretation of history.

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

* 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese government official

His visit to Fiji will be the first by a senior Chinese government official.

Standard Chinese has official status as the standard spoken form of the Chinese language in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the Republic of China ( ROC ) and the Republic of Singapore.

At the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit on March 10, a Chinese government official asked the European Commission why it no longer wanted to work with China, and when China ’ s cash investment in Galileo would be returned.

Therefore a continuation of English culture by recent English immigrants was simple and official policy ; the need to integrate with the Chinese populations was thus limited.

The first planetarium was invented by the ancient Chinese, and the official astronomers were paid to keep track of the solar, lunar, and planetary motions.

ICQ 7. 0 does not support traditional Chinese on standard installation or with the addition of an official language pack.

This has made its adoption difficult with the established user base from Hong Kong and Taiwan where traditional Chinese is the official language.

Wang Yangming, a Ming Chinese neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general, held that objects do not exist entirely apart from the mind because the mind shapes them.

He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

A Chinese official and a woman from Macau, 1880.

The official languages are Portuguese and Cantonese Chinese.

Standard Chinese or Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China and one of the four official languages of Singapore.

* act-ACT is a lossy ADPCM 8 kbit / s compressed audio format recorded by most Chinese MP3 and MP4 players with a recording function, and voice recorders

Classical Chinese astronomy is recorded in the Han period and appears in the form of three schools, which are attributed to astronomers of the Zhanguo period.

The first of several Roman embassies to China is recorded in Chinese sources, coming from the sea route in AD 166, and a second one in AD 284.

The Chinese have a tradition of holding spectacular memorial ceremonies of Confucius () every year, using ceremonies that supposedly derived from Zhou Li () as recorded by Confucius, on the date of Confucius ' birth.

As Anagui's " blacksmith slave " ( 鍛奴 / 锻奴, Pinyin: duànnú, Wade-Giles: tuan-nu ) comment was recorded in Chinese chronicles, some claim that the Göktürks were indeed blacksmith servants for the Rouran elite, and that " blacksmith slavery " may indicate a kind of vassalage system prevailed in Rouran society.

Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.

Chinese dry-cured hams have been recorded in texts since prior to Song dynasty and used in myriad dishes.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Three prominent proto-Mongol groups split from the Xianbei, as recorded by the Chinese histories: the Nirun ( claimed by some to be the Avars ), the Khitan and the Shiwei ( a sub-tribe called the " Shiwei Menggu " is held to be the origin of the Genghisid Mongols ).

The earliest recorded prayer wheels were written of by a Chinese pilgrim around 400 C. E.

A common claim is that the first recorded use of a rocket in battle was by the Chinese in 1232 against the Mongol hordes at Kai Feng Fu.

The brightest stellar event in recorded history was the SN 1006 supernova, which was observed in 1006 and written about by the Egyptian astronomer Ali ibn Ridwan and several Chinese astronomers.

The 1817 census recorded 821 white inhabitants, a garrison of 820 men, 618 Chinese indentured labourers, 500 free blacks and 1, 540 slaves.

There were 103 herbs used in Uyghur medicine recorded in a medical compendium by Li Shizhen ( 1518 – 1593 ), a Chinese medical authority.

* Sunspots, first recorded by Chinese

* A supernova now known as SN 185 is noted by Chinese astronomers in the Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu, making it the earliest recorded supernova.

* In the Chinese capital of Chang ' an, for the annual Lantern Festival of this year, recently abdicated Emperor Ruizong of Tang erects an enormous lantern wheel at a city gate, with a recorded height of 200 ft.

* As recorded in the Nihon Shoki of 720, the Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist monks and engineers Zhi Yu and Zhi You recreate several South Pointing Chariots for the Japanese Emperor Tenji.

* Chinese Buddhist monks Zhi Yu and Zhi You craft more South Pointing Chariot vehicles for Emperor Tenji of Japan, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki ( the South Pointing Chariot is a non-magnetic, mechanical-driven directional-compass vehicle that incorporates the use of a differential gear ).

* The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs in the Chinese province of Hubei.

* July 4 – The SN 1054 supernova is recorded by the Chinese, Arab and possibly Native Americans near the star ζ Tauri.

Solid rockets were invented by the Chinese, the earliest versions were recorded in the 13th century.