* 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China ( Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607 ).

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) (: " Chinese medicine ") is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2, 000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage ( Tui na ), exercise ( qigong ), and dietary therapy.

Traditional Chinese Medicine that is based on the use of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage and other forms of therapy has been practiced in China for thousands of years.

The different script systems resulting from the preservation or simplication of original pre-Republic Chinese characters are used by Chinese people living under different jurisdictions: " Simplified Chinese " in Mainland China ( the People's Republic of China ), " Traditional Chinese " in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and " Proper Chinese " ( which is the same script as " Traditional Chinese ") in Taiwan ( the Republic of China ).

* 1027 BC — Traditional date for the end of the Shang Dynasty in China, and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

Traditional accounts place him in the Spring and Autumn Period of China ( 722 – 481 BC ) as a military general serving under King Helü of Wu, who lived c. 544 – 496 BC.

This marked the beginning of the ten year's struggle, known in mainland China as the " Ten Year's Civil War " ( Traditional Chinese: 十年內戰 Simplified Chinese: 十年内战 Pinyin: Shínían Nèizhàn ).

The current president Ma Ying-Jeou advocates as well for the revitalization of Chinese culture, as in the re-introduction of Traditional Chinese in texts to mainland China used in Taiwan and historically in China before the communist revolution in 1949.

* Gallery of China – Traditional Chinese Art Essay on Chinese art from neolithic to communist times

This kind of storm is also known as " Wind of the Stony Lake " ( Traditional Chinese: 石湖風 – shi2 hu2 feng1, Simplified Chinese: 石湖风 ) in southern China.

The Yongle Emperor ( Traditional Chinese: 永樂帝 ; Simplified Chinese: 永乐帝 ; pinyin: Yǒnglèdì ; Wade-Giles: Yung-lo Emperor ; ) ( 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424 ), born Zhu Di ( 朱棣 ), was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

Traditional female names sometimes also reflected the male chauvinism of ancient China, with names like Laidi (), Zhaodi (), and Pandi () all essentially meaning " Seeking a Little Brother ".

The slogan " Three Principles of the People unite China ", written in Traditional Chinese characters | traditional Chinese, the official language of Taiwan, located in Kinmen, directly facing Mainland China

Chinese users seem to have fewer objections to Han unification, largely because Unicode did not attempt to unify Simplified Chinese characters ( an invention of the People's Republic of China, and in use among Chinese speakers in the PRC, Singapore, and Malaysia ), with Traditional Chinese characters, as used in Hong Kong, Taiwan ( Big5 ), and, with some differences, more familiar to Korean and Japanese users.

Traditional small ensembles also make use of the sheng, such as the wind and percussion ensembles in northern China.

Traditional wooden dragon boats, however, derive from rafts of three lashed-together timber beams, similar to the long and slender bamboo rafts consisting of lashed bundles of hollow bamboo stalks which can still be seen in China today.

* Traditional Chinese medicine, a range of traditional medical practices used in China that developed over several thousand years

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.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

The Chinese abacus migrated from China to Korea around 1400 AD.

Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

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.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

In the process, cooks adapted southern Chinese dishes such as chop suey, and developed a style of Chinese food not found in China.

American Chinese food typically treats vegetables as a side dish or garnish while cuisines of China emphasize vegetables.

American Chinese cuisine often uses ingredients not native and very rarely used in China.

Since tomatoes are New World plants, they are also fairly new to China and Chinese cuisine.

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

This dish is quite popular in Chinese restaurants in the United States, but not so popular in China.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

China | Chinese Ding ( vessel ) | Ding, Western Zhou ( 1046 – 771 BCE )

The Chinese, who make up 29 % of the population of Sarawak and 17 % of total population in West Kalimantan, originally migrated from southeastern China.

The Chinese Communists were able to fight their way from the north and northeast, and virtually all of mainland China was taken by the end of 1949.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Due to the social custom that men and women should not be near to one another, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western Medicine.

This resulted in a tremendous need for female doctors of Western Medicine in China.

* The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo, China.

* Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international: HBPD INT ( First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China )

Due to the social custom that men and women should not be near to one another, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western Medicine.

This resulted in a tremendous need for female doctors of Western Medicine in China.

Anguo (), nicknamed " Medicine Capital " ( 藥都 ), is a county-level city under the administration of and south of the city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China.

Between 1916 and 1923, the former Peking Union Medical College, the Medical Department of Nanking University, the Hankow Medical College, and the North China Union Medical College for Women were all moved to Jinan and merged into the Cheeloo University School of Medicine.

* In mainland China, some medical schools award MBBS to foreign students while all medical schools award Bachelor of Medicine to nationals.

* A Highway, and an Old Chinese Doctor: A Story of Travel through Unoccupied China during the War of Resistance, and Some Notes on Chinese Medicine

Other lead researchers were Chen Junshi, Deputy Director of Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Richard Peto of the University of Oxford, and Li Junyao of the China Cancer Institute.

Traditional Chinese Medicine that is based on the use of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage and other forms of therapy has been practiced in China for thousands of years.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China and Hong Kong in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Medicine in China: A History of Ideas.

The practice of veneration of the Medicine Buddha is also popular in China, as he is depicted as one of the trinity of Buddhas, the others being the founder Śākyamuni and Amitabha.

** Cultural China ( 2007 ), " Chinese Medicine: Basic Zang Fu Theory ", " Kaleidoscope → Health ", retrieved 2010-12-21

* Unschuld, Paul U., < cite > Medicine in China: A History of Ideas </ cite >; University of California Press, 1985 ; ISBN 0-520-05023-1

* Scheid, Volker, < cite > Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis </ cite >; Duke University Press, 2002 ; ISBN 0-8223-2857-7

The main object of veneration, Yakushi Nyorai, also named " The Medicine Buddha ", was one of first Buddhist Deities to arrive in Japan from China in 680, and gives the temple its name.

In the People's Republic of China, medical graduates are traditionally awarded a Bachelor of Medicine ( BMed ) for a course of study lasting five or six years.

Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( 福建中医学院 ) is a university located in Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

There are also seven provincial key disciplines, two research institutes in the university, namely Fujian Institute of Chinese Medicine and Academy of Integrative Medicine, Fujian, China.