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 )

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Cetus are found among two areas: the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ) and the White Tiger of the West ( 西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ ).

* 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 )

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.

In its monastic form, Mahayana was merely an organization of magic-practicing monks ( bonzes ), who catered to the Chinese faith in the supernatural.

Zhuyin developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a syllabary.

* Beijing beef – This dish exists in native Chinese form, but using gai-lan ( Chinese broccoli ) rather than American broccoli.

Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy ( theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth and man ) and uses concepts such as yin and yang, the Five phases, the 10 Celestial stems, the 12 Earthly Branches, and shichen ( 時辰 a form of timekeeping used for religious purposes ).

It is mainly an oriental art form, and most 3D beading resources are written in oriental languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, further impeding wide access to English-speaking countries.

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.

** Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

There have been attempts to incorporate democracy, republicanism, and industrialism into Chinese philosophy, notably by Sun Yat-Sen ( Sūn yì xiān, in one Mandarin form of the name ) at the beginning of the 20th century.

The five elements also play an important part in Chinese astrology and the Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng shui

* Every pair of congruence relations for an unknown integer x, of the form x ≡ k ( mod a ) and x ≡ l ( mod b ), has a solution, as stated by the Chinese remainder theorem ; in fact the solutions are described by a single congruence relation modulo ab.

In 307 BC, King Wuling of Zhao, the ancient Chinese ruler of the former State of Jin territory, ordered his military commanders and troops to adopt the trousers of the nomads as well as practice the nomads ' form of mounted archery to hone their new cavalry skills.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

Another form of collation is radical-and-stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji, whose thousands of symbols defy ordering by convention.

In its basic form, the Chinese remainder theorem will determine a number n that when divided by some given divisors leaves given remainders.

The original form of the theorem, contained in a third-century AD book The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi ( 孫子算經 ) by Chinese mathematician Sun Tzu and later generalized with a complete solution called Da yan shu ( 大衍术 ) in a 1247 book by Qin Jiushao, the Shushu Jiuzhang ( 數書九章 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections ) is a statement about simultaneous congruences ( see modular arithmetic ).

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Jimmu.