This type of cooking typically caters to American styles and differs significantly from traditional 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.

* Aquila ( Chinese astronomy ), a traditional constellation

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period ( 14th-15th century ).

These asterisms have since been incorporated into the traditional Chinese star maps.

Nevertheless, the Manchus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule and were considered a Chinese dynasty.

Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Indian ( Arabic ) system for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used mainly in some formal or ceremonial occasions such as on printed money.

Using the same coloring scheme of the traditional Chinese dice, every half-domino with 1 or 4 spots has those spots colored red ( for example, the 4-5 domino has four red spots and five white spots ).

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

During this period, archaeological evidence points to an increase in literacy and a partial shift away from the faith placed in Shangdi ( the Supreme Being in traditional Chinese religion ), with ancestor worship becoming commonplace and a more worldly orientation coming to the fore.

Since Chinese traditional thought focuses more on ethics rather than metaphysics, it has developed several schools distinct from the originating Indian schools.

Since the radical movement of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government has become much more tolerant with the practice of traditional beliefs.

* Questions about the nature and existence of a monotheistic deity, which have profoundly influenced Western philosophy, have not been important in Chinese philosophies or a source of great conflict in Chinese traditional religion.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Methods may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing.

Edo period advertising flyer from 1806 for a traditional medicine called Kinseitan

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine ; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.

associated with witchcraft, as their body parts are used as ingredients in traditional medicine.

In the first millennium BCE, there emerges in post-Vedic India the traditional medicine system known as Ayurveda, meaning the " complete knowledge for long life ".

China also developed a large body of traditional medicine.

Much of the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine derived from empirical observations of disease and illness by Taoist physicians and reflects the classical Chinese belief that individual human experiences express causative principles effective in the environment at all scales.

This work was revisited by an imperial commission during the 11th century, and the result is our best extant representation of the foundational roots of traditional Chinese medicine.

Non Western-topics treated are, for instance, the rule of Emirs, traditional medicine or polygamy ( 1997: 225 ).

Early records on medicine have been discovered from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine ( in the Indian subcontinent ), classical Chinese medicine ( predecessor to the modern traditional Chinese Medicine ), and ancient Greek medicine and Roman medicine.

Also, many families had a choice of whether or not they wanted to employ a midwife who practiced the traditional folk medicine or the newer methods of professional parturition.

This is particularly prevalent in traditional Indian martial arts which may teach bone-setting, and other aspects of traditional Indian medicine.

Historically, mushrooms have long been thought to hold medicinal value, especially in traditional Chinese medicine.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

" Medicine man " or " medicine woman " are English terms used to describe traditional healers and spiritual leaders among Native American and other indigenous or aboriginal peoples.

Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece: lentil soup, fasolada, retsina ( white or rosé wine flavored with pine resin ) and pasteli ( candy bar with sesame seeds baked with honey ); some to the Hellenistic and Roman periods: loukaniko ( dried pork sausage ); and Byzantium: feta cheese, avgotaraho ( cured fish roe ) and paximadi ( traditional hard bread baked from corn, barley and rye ).

The leaves, both fresh and dried, are used in traditional Mediterranean cuisine.

Similar to other traditional medicine, diagnosis is usually made through checking the pulse, symptoms, and disease history, and then the pharmacist pounds up different dried herbs, making personalized medicines according to the prescription.

He demands that sacrifices to imperial ancestors are changed to using dried meat, instead of the traditional animals ( goats, pigs and cows ).

* Enchiladas con chile colorado ( with red chile ) are made with traditional red enchilada sauce, composed of dried red chili peppers soaked and ground into a sauce with other seasonings.

In the last decade, demand for manta gill rakers — the tough, cartilaginous structures protecting the gills and straining plankton from the water — has been growing in Traditional Chinese Medicine practices, although the remedy calling for dried gill rakers has not been shown to be traditional.

Once washed and dried, the silk is woven on a traditional hand operated loom.

Another traditional variation is to add pink-colored sugar to the corn mix and fill it with raisins or other dried fruit and make a sweet tamal de dulce.

* Pease porridge or peasemeal porridge, made from dried peas, is a traditional English and Scottish porridge.

** Upma, a fried semolina porridge traditional in southern India, flavored with clarified butter, fried onions, toasted mustard seeds, and curry leaves, and often mixed with vegetables and other foods, such as potatoes, fried dried red chilis, fried cauliflower, and toasted peanuts or cashew nuts.

Keropok dried fish cakes are a welcome favourite among locals and traditional industry includes the mass processing of dried fish and seafood as well as the famed keropok lekor.

Apple dolls are traditional North American dolls with a head made from dried apples.

Corn husk dolls are traditional Native American dolls made out of the dried leaves or husk of a corncob.

The dried fruits of Crataegus pinnatifida ( called shān zhā in Chinese ) are used in naturopathic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, primarily as a digestive aid.

Against the traditional interpretation that finds a common origin for the Khoi and San, other evidence has suggested that the ancestors of the Khoi peoples ( one subset of the Khoisan ) are relatively recent pre-Bantu agricultural immigrants to southern Africa, who abandoned agriculture as the climate dried and either joined the San as hunter-gatherers or retained pastoralism to become the Khoikhoi.

In Cyprus the pancake recipe is used for a similar dish such as Genoese canelloni -- ground meat with tomato sauce, cheese, and sometimes bechamel sauce -- instead of the traditional canelloni dried pasta sold at supermarkets.

Panta Ilish — a traditional platter of Panta bhat with fried ilish slice, supplemented with dried fish ( shutki ), pickles ( achar ), dal, green chillies, and onion — is a popular dish for the Pohela Boishakh festival.

The Chochenyo traditional narratives refer to ducks as food, and Juan Crespí observed in his journal that geese were stuffed and dried " to use as decoys in hunting others ".

It involves the careful boning out a leg of lamb, stuffing it with honey and dried apricots, ( in addition to traditional stuffing based on breadcrumbs, onion, parsley and thyme or sage ) and then marinating it in a red wine based marinade which even gives it the appearance of goose when cooked.

Boiled and dried, the rough horsetail is used in Japan as a traditional polishing material, finer than sandpaper.

Sujeonggwa is a traditional punch made from dried persimmons, cinnamon, and ginger.

Other traditional instruments include švilpas whistle, drums and tabalas ( a percussion instrument like a gong ), sekminių ragelis ( bagpipe ) and the pūslinė, a musical bow made from a pig ’ s bladder filled with dried peas.

The dried leaves are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.