In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

* Four Pillars of Destiny, a Chinese component used in fortune telling

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

* Vitalii Aronovich Rubin: Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers.

; Red Robe Dà Hóng Páo ( 大红袍 ): in Chinese, a highly prized tea and a Sì Dà Míng Cōng ( 四大名樅, literally: The Four Great Bushes ).

* Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar

The most well-known foods for breakfast are the " Four Heavenly Kings " (), which include dabing (; Chinese pancake ), youtiao, ci fan tuan (; steamed sticky rice ball ) and soy milk.

The name pays homage to the Four Heavenly Kings in Chinese Buddhism.

The White Tiger () is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations.

In the Ming Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai ' an wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin respectively, which became two of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

), Guo Jinhai ( annotation ), Zhu Shijie: Jade mirror of the Four Unknowns, Chinese and English bilingual, vol I & 2, Liaoning education Press, China, 2006.

* July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power 9 months after the " Gang of Four " was expelled from power in a coup d ' état.

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

* Three of the Four Great Books of Song are published ( the last one in 1013 ), which were enormous Chinese encyclopedias having millions of written Chinese characters each.

* The largest of the Four Great Books of Song, the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau ( which had been compiled since 1005 ), is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 9. 4 million written Chinese characters.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1, 000 volumes representing the work of some 2, 200 authors.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 4. 7 million written Chinese characters.

On the contrary, the Silk Road passed Chinese products and inventions to the Western regions, including paper: papermaking originated in China and is considered one of Four Great Inventions.

In the trial of the so-called Gang of Four, a Chinese court stated that 729, 511 people had been persecuted, of which 34, 800 were said to have died.

The Four Cardinal Principles ( Chinese: 四项基本原则, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé ) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China.

Dharma is also used to refer to the direct teachings of the Buddha, especially the discourses on the fundamental principles ( such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path ), as opposed to the parables and to the poems.

A set of four short lyric poems ( shi 詩 ) entitled " Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows " ( 四愁詩 ), is also included with Zhang's preface.

Eliot incorporated this phrase, as well as Julian's " the ground of our beseeching " from the 14th Revelation, in his " Little Gidding ", the fourth of his Four Quartets poems:

He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome ; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs ; and his tone poems and other orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and Metamorphosen.

D 40018-40019 ), and Lecture 70 John Drinkwater reading his own poems ( Four 78rpm sides, Cat no.

Four of them — The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel and The Wild Dove — are based on poems from Karel Jaromír Erben's Kytice ( Bouquet ) collection of fairy tales.

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* Kings, the kingship of Leinster and the regnal poems of " laidshenchas Laigen: a reflection of dynastic politics in leinster, 650-1150, Edel Bhreathnach, in Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000

* Four poems by Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, with original French texts

* Four poems at the Poetry Archive

* Four poems of the cycle were set to music for voice and piano by the contemporary Greek composer Dionysis Boukouvalas ( 2004 ).

* Four poems by Basil Bunting Captured November 23, 2005.

1943 – Four Songs on poems by Fernando Pessoa

Four of these poems would ultimately become among his best-known: " The Dorchester Giant ", " Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian ", " Evening / By a Tailor " and " The Height of the Ridiculous ".

* Four poems in Bengali text

Four volumes of his poetry were published during his lifetime: Gwalia Deserta ( 1938 ), The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926 ( 1943 ), Tonypandy and other poems ( 1945 ), and Selected Poems ( 1953 ).

Her poems " Motion and Stillness ", " Four Nights ", " The New Ghost ", and " The Water Mill " were set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Four Poems by Fredegond Shove for baritone and piano ( 1922 ).

* Four online poems from Blinking with Fists by Billy Corgan at alittlepoetry. com

* Four And Twenty Toilers ( 1900 ), poems

His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles ( after Maeterlinck ), La Bonne Chanson ( after Verlaine ), A Pagan Poem ( after Virgil ), and Memories of My Childhood ( Life in a Russian Village ), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies ( to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan ), and the chamber works Music for Four String Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano.

Four collections of Kenyon's poems were published during her lifetime: Constance ( 1993 ), Let Evening Come ( 1990 ), The Boat of Quiet Hours ( 1986 ), and From Room to Room ( 1978 ).

A number of miscellaneous poems, a few letters and Four Orations to the Cross complete the list of Grazzini's works.

Four of the poems are didactic and address points of Christian doctrine, the other three are in praise of the Virgin Mary ( one of them a translation from Robert Grosseteste's Latin ).