In Chinese astronomy, the stream of water flowing from the Water Jar was depicted as the " Army of Yu-Lin " ( Yu-lin-kiun ).

* Aquila ( Chinese astronomy ), a traditional constellation

There are also numerous historical constellations not recognized by the IAU, or constellations recognized in regional traditions of astronomy or astrology, such as Chinese, Hindu and Australian Aboriginal.

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.

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.

Native Chinese astronomy flourished during the Song Dynasty, and during the Yuan Dynasty became increasingly influenced by medieval Islamic astronomy.

In Chinese astronomy, constellation Capricornus lies in The Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ).

* Capricornus ( Chinese astronomy )

* Crux ( Chinese astronomy )

* Cetus ( Chinese astronomy )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Centaurus are found in three areas: the Azure Dragon of the East ( 東方青龍, Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng ), the Vermillion Bird of the South ( 南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què ), and the Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ).

* Centaurus ( Chinese astronomy )

* Cygnus ( Chinese astronomy )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars that form Chamaeleon were classified as the Little Dipper ( 小斗, Xiǎodǒu ) among the Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ) by Xu Guangqi.

Chamaeleon ( Chinese astronomy )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Dorado are located in two of Xu Guangqi's Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ): the White Patches Attached ( 夾白, Jiābái ) and the Goldfish ( 金魚, Jīnyú ).

Dorado ( Chinese astronomy )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Delphinus are located within the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ).

Delphinus ( Chinese astronomy )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars that correspond to Equuleus are located within the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ).

In Chinese astronomy, the stars that correspond to Fornax are located within the White Tiger of the West ( 西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ ).

* Fornax ( Chinese astronomy )

The English sinologist Cullen emphasizes the point that there was no concept of a round Earth in ancient Chinese astronomy:

Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.

When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

However, most of the brightest stars of Centaurus, including α Cen, θ Cen, ε Cen and η Cen, can be seen in the Chinese sky.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

In spite of the apparent immutability of the heavens, Chinese astronomers were aware that new stars could appear.

A common legend states that in the second year of the Hsüan-ho, in the Sung dynasty 1120 AD, a certain official memorialized the throne, praying that the ya p ' ai ( ivory cards ) be fixed as a pack of 32, comprising 127 pips it should be 227, but Chinese printers are careless, in order to accord with the expanse of the stars and constellations.

A zigzag with seven stars is sometimes displayed, representing the Big Dipper ( or the Bushel, the Chinese equivalent ).

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Triangulum along with several in Andromeda were incorporated into T ' ien-ta-tsiang-kiun ( the " Great Celestial General "), the fifth paranatellon of the second house of the White Tiger of the West.

* The Chinese astronomer Liu Xin ( d. 23 ) documented 1080 different stars, amongst other achievements.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

Zhou herself was from a very poor background and in her youth had narrowly escaped a future in the sex trade, but she became one of China's iconic seven great singing stars on the strength of her performance, and the film became one of the last great hits of the First Golden Age of Chinese Cinema before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.

It stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp, and tells the story of young girl, Lucy Burrows, who is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows, and meets Cheng Huan, a kind-hearted Chinese man who falls in love with her.

The colored stars represented the major ethnic groups that comprise the Surinamese population: the original Amerindians, the colonizing Europeans, the Africans brought in as slaves to work in plantations and the Hindus, Javanese and Chinese who came as indentured workers to replace the Africans who escaped slavery and settled in the hinterland.

Similar to Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the square is surrounded by floor mounted plaques with film stars names and cast handprints.

Chinese constellations ( Chinese:, xīngguān ) are the groupings used by the ancient Chinese to organize the stars.

The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.

As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia.

Observers claim that the Chinese community in Angola might include as many as 300, 000 persons at the end of 2010, but nothing near to reliable statistics are at this stage available on this point.

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 ".

In Chinese speaking regions, abalone are commonly known as bao yu, and sometimes forms part of a Chinese banquet.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

Stir frying, pan frying, and deep frying tend to be the most common Chinese cooking techniques used in this cuisine, which are all easily done using a wok.

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

Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.

* Fried rice – Fried rice dishes are popular offerings in American Chinese food due to the speed and ease of preparation and their appeal to American tastes.

* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.

Restaurants specializing in Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hunanese, Northern Chinese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong traditions are widely available, as are more specialized restaurants such as seafood restaurants, Hong Kong-style diners and cafes ( also known as Cha chaan teng ( 茶餐廳 chácāntīng )), dim sum teahouses, and hot pot restaurants.