Foodservice establishments with name ending with the Chinese character pu (), or pu zihao ().

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It is written in a longhand form called wenzi pu ( 文字譜 ) ( literally " written notation "), said to have been created by Yong Menzhou during the Warring States Period, which gives all the details using ordinary written Chinese characters.

Early inscriptions from this period, carved on tortoise shells, have three Chinese characters for garden, you, pu and yuan.

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Chinese bronzes | Bronze ritual vessel ( You ( vessel ) | You ), Western Zhou Dynasty

After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.

In India, two varieties of the wok exist: a more traditional Chinese style wok with a wider diameter called the " cheena chatti " ( literally, " Chinese pot " in Malayalam and Tamil ), and a slightly deeper vessel with a narrower diameter and a similar shape, known as a karahi.

Chinese ritual bronze wine vessel, Shang Dynasty, 13th century BC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

An inscription of some 180 Chinese characters appears twice on the vessel, commenting on state rituals that accompanied a court ceremony.

* Hu ( vessel ), a type of ancient Chinese bronze vessel

* Junk ( ship ), a sailing vessel of Chinese origin

Other vessel flutes include the Chinese xun and African globe flutes.

The xun ( simplified Chinese: 埙 ; traditional: 塤 ; pinyin: xūn ) is a Chinese vessel flute made of clay or ceramic.

The Chinese Commissioner Ye Mingchen refused and it was discovered that the Arrows registration as a British vessel expired three weeks before it was seized and therefore had no right to fly the flag or to be exempt from interception under international law.

On November 23, 1574, the Chinese pirate Limahong and his 65 vessel fleet, with 3, 000 men anchored between Corregidor and Mariveles.

It was described as a traditional Chinese sacrificial vessel symbolizing unity.

It was described as a traditional Chinese sacrificial vessel symbolizing unity.

But a tossing of coins, with perhaps the added safeguard of reference to the oracles of the I Ching, the Chinese Book Of Changes, dictates the handling of the chosen materials.

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.

And the Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that Khrushchev is anxious to secure a `` shameful '' peace with the West.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.

Following arrowed signs, I veered right toward the former kitchens, complete with chimneys, which now house one of the world's greatest collections of Chinese porcelain and a fabulous array of silver dinner services.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;

Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

As of early 2011, trade with China is dominated by imports of Chinese goods and accounts for about 10 percent of Armenia's foreign trade.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

There is, however, speculation that local criminal gangs barter abalone illegally with Chinese nationals in exchange for chemicals used in the production of drugs, reducing the need for the use of money and hence avoiding money laundering difficulties.

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Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and which is ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

Chinese dragon kite more than one hundred feet long which flew in the annual Berkeley, California, kite festival in 2000.

In Chinese art, Guanyin is often depicted either alone, standing atop a dragon, accompanied by a white parrot, flanked by two children, or flanked by two warriors.

The name oolong tea came into the English language from the Chinese name (), meaning " black dragon tea ".

Statue of the sun goddess Xihe ( deity ) | Xihe charioteering the sun, being pulled by a Chinese dragon | dragon, in Hangzhou

Also in various Chinese art and martial art, the tiger is depicted as an earth symbol and equal rival of the Chinese dragon – the two representing matter and spirit respectively.

A Chinese dragon at the Mengjia Longshan Temple in Taipei

In Chinese mythology, a carving of a Tree of Life depicts a phoenix and a dragon ; the dragon often represents immortality.

Lee had three other Chinese names: Li Yuanxin ( 李源鑫 ), a family / clan name ; Li Yuanjian ( 李元鑒 ), as a student name while he was attending La Salle College, and his Chinese screen name Li Xiaolong ( 李小龍 ; Xiaolong means " little dragon ").

In 1899, it was found that Chinese pharmacists were selling " dragon bones " marked with curious and archaic characters.

* Chinese dragon

In China and especially in Indochina, the Indian serpent nāga was equated with the lóng or Chinese dragon.

In yin and yang terminology, a dragon is yang and complements a yin fenghuang (" Chinese phoenix ").

In Chinese daily language, excellent and outstanding people are compared to the dragon while incapable people with no achievements are compared with other, disesteemed creatures, such as the worm.

A number of Chinese proverbs and idioms feature references to the dragon, for example: " Hoping one's son will become a dragon " ( 望子成龍, i. e. be as a dragon ).