Emperor Kangxi ordered the creation of Kangxi Dictionary, the most complete dictionary of Chinese characters ever put together at the time.

Many Taoists venerate Laozi as Daotsu the founder of the school of Dao, the Daode Tianjun in the Three Pure Ones, one of the eight elders transformed from Taiji in the Chinese creation myth.

This is the Chinese creation myth from the primordial Tao.

The creation of Taichuli was regarded as a revolution in the Chinese calendar tradition, as it stated that there were 365. 25 days in a year and 29. 53 days in a month.

It broadly supported the Chinese Republic over the creation of Manchukuo in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia.

Although Taiwanese indigenous groups hold a variety of creation myths, recent research suggests their ancestors may have been living on the islands for approximately 8, 000 years before major Han Chinese immigration began in the 17th century.

Falun Gong adherents overseas have responded to the suppression in China through regular demonstrations, parades, and through the creation of media outlets, performing arts companies, and censorship-circumvention software mainly intended to reach Mainland Chinese audiences.

However, it would not be until 1038 that the Tangut chieftain Li Yuanhao, Li Deming's son, who also ordered the creation of a Tangut writing system and the translation of Chinese classics into Tangut, named himself emperor of Da Xia, and demanded of the Song emperor recognition as an equal.

* 1054 — Chinese and Arab astronomers observe the SN 1054, responsible for the creation of the Crab Nebula, the only nebula whose creation was observed

After the communist revolution at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Tsinghua University's then President Mei Yi-Qi, followed by many professors, fled to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

The creation of the Crab Nebula corresponds to the bright SN 1054 supernova that was independently recorded by Indian, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054 AD.

They reported to the Chinese Ambassador to the United States Hu Shih on a mission that would ultimately conclude negotiations for the creation of an American Volunteer Group of pilots and mechanics to serve in China.

Chinese mythology includes creation myths and legends, such as myths concerning the founding of Chinese culture and the Chinese state.

The creation of gendered pronouns in Chinese was part of the May Fourth Movement to modernize Chinese culture, and specifically an attempt to assert equality between Chinese and the European languages, which generally have gendered pronouns.

Before the creation of Hangul, only members of the highest class were literate ( hanja was typically used to write Korean by using adapted Chinese characters, while Hanmun was sometimes used to write court documents in classical Chinese ).

Chinese music: Partially as a reaction against attempts by the Communist government to subvert traditional styles to drum up patriotism and loyalty, the 1970s saw the creation of Chinese rock and Cantopop ( in Hong Kong ), both of which made some use of native folk styles, especially in vocal techniques.

Of great importance in Chinese myth and culture, the tiger is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals.

In fact, before it was discovered that Chinese pharmacists were selling oracle bones from Shang times, the Shang Dynasty was considered a myth.

Yet another myth is that, in the 1860s, a Chinese restaurant cook in San Francisco was forced to serve something to drunken miners after hours, when he had no fresh food.

It is not actually based on any existing Japanese folklore, but rather incorporates elements of Chinese and Japanese folklore and mythology into a new " myth ".

* Kua Fu, a Chinese myth about a giant who chased the sun and died while getting too close.

According to the historian Frank Dikötter, " The delusive myth of a Chinese antiquity that abandoned racial standards in favour of a concept of cultural universalism in which all barbarians could ultimately participate has understandably attracted some modern scholars.

The influence of Western vampire stories brought the blood-sucking aspect to the Chinese myth in more modern times in combination with the concept of the hungry ghost, though traditionally they act more like western zombies.

* c. 80 AD-In his Lunheng ( 論衡 ; Critical Essays ), the Han Dynasty Chinese philosopher Wang Chong ( 27-97 AD ) dispels the Chinese myth of rain coming from the heavens, and states that rain is evaporated from water on the earth into the air and forms clouds, stating that clouds condense into rain and also form dew, and says when the clothes of people in high mountains are moistened, this is because of the air-suspended rain water.

Also, there are 36 generals and a group of Devine warriors under his dominion ; anyhow, as is depicted in myth of Chinese Taoism, he is the commander of a huge deity system in the Northern Pole, in which a great number of valiant deity generals and warriors who all controlled by the Emperor Zi-Wei.

* The Vermilion Bird of the South, one of the Four Symbols of Chinese myth, is sometimes confused with the Fenghuang, though they are distinct entities.

For example, Europe becomes Firanja, Great Britain and Ireland become the Keltic Sultanate, and Spain becomes al-Andalus ; while the Pacific Ocean and Australia are called by Chinese names Dahai ( 大海 ) and Aozhou ( 澳洲 ), respectively, and North America becomes Yingzhou ( 鄞州 ), a land from Chinese myth.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

They were followed by Yung-Ch ’ eng and Sui-Jen ( i. e., fire-man ) the later being the Chinese Prometheus, who brought the fire down from heaven and taught man its various uses .< p > The Prometheus myth is not indigenous to Greece, where it received the artistically classical form under which it is best known to us.

This myth appears to have been preceded in ancient Chinese literature by the existence of Shangdi or Taiyi.

* Chinese creation myth

One Chinese myth tells a story about King Mu, who dreamed of being an immortal god.

Chinese garden's structure is based upon the culture's creation myth, rooted in rocks and water.

A Chinese cuisine | Chinese buffet restaurant in the United States of America

Carryout Chinese food is typically served in a Oyster pail | paper carton with a wire bail.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the valuable statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the bronze and marble statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain ( or, actually, acid snow )

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

File: Ku K ' ai-chih 001. jpg | Section of the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi, c. 380 AD

File: Ku K ' ai-chih 002. jpg | Further section of the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi, c. 380 AD

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

Chinese pu vessel with interlaced Chinese dragon | dragon design, Spring and Autumn Period

A Chinese Tang Dynasty tricolored Ceramic glaze | glaze porcelain horse ( ca.

Chinese and Arabic numerals may coexist, as on this kilometer marker: 1620 km on China National Highway 209 | Hwy G209 ( G二〇九 )

Chinese ceramic glaze | glaze d stoneware statue of a Taoist deity, from the Ming Dynasty, 16th century.

Image: Keyboard layout Chinese Traditional. png | Chinese ( traditional ) keyboard layout, a US keyboard with Zhuyin, Cangjie and Dayi key labels, which can all be used to input Chinese characters into a computer

Deep-fried mantou, a popular Chinese dessert, served with Condensed milk | sweetened condensed milk

Chiang's body was not buried in the traditional Chinese manner but entombed in his former residence in Cihu Mausoleum | Cihu in respect for his wish to be buried in his native Fenghua.

File: Chuangzi Nu1. jpg | Chinese Chuangzi Nu stationary windlass device with triple-bow arcuballista

Image: Zhugenu-payne. jpg | Chinese repeating crossbow with pull lever and automatic reload magazine

Image: Liannu. jpg | Chinese Lian Nu ( 連弩 ), multiple shot crossbow without a visible nut or cocking aid

Communist Party of China | Communist soldiers during the Battle of Siping, Chinese Civil War, 1946