Traditional Chinese dwellings had a courtyard, and the Shikumen was no exception.

Stone carving of Chinese dragons at a temple in Fuzhou, China

* One famous constrained writing in the Chinese language is The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi.

The genre of Chinese travel literature also became popular with the writings of the geographer Fan Chengda ( 1126 – 1193 ) and Su Shi, the latter of whom wrote the ' daytrip essay ' known as Record of Stone Bell Mountain that used persuasive writing to argue for a philosophical point.

Chinese jade was attributed with magical powers, and was used in the Stone and Bronze Ages for large and impractical versions of everyday weapons and tools, as well as the bi disks and cong vessels.

Stone carving of Chinese zodiac

The rest of the survivors attempted to escape to the border region of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian to join the remnant of Taiping forces led by Li Shixian ( 李世贤 ), but on 9 October 1864, they were ambushed by the Imperial Chinese army at Stone Town ( Shi Cheng, 石城 ) and Hong Rengan was captured and subsequently executed on 23 November 1864 at Nanchang ( 南昌 ), Jiangxi.

In a December 2008 interview with Rolling Stone, Gibbard laughed off suggestions that The Postal Service's long overdue follow-up to their 2003 hit Give Up is an indie version of Guns N ' Roses ' Chinese Democracy.

She attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and earned a bachelor's degree in political science with a concentration in Chinese language and Asian studies from Middlebury College.

In fact, Dali is so famous for the stone that the name of marble in Chinese is literally " Dali Stone " (; pinyin: dali shi ).

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In 2005, he wrote and recorded music for the video game Jak X: Combat Racing, which also features remixes of Billy's songs by Danny Lohner and Dean Menta, and musicians Josh Freese and Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age, Atom Willard of Angels And Airwaves, Joey Castillo of Queens of the Stone Age, ex-A Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin, and Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, also worked on the Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy, specifically the song " There Was A Time ".

In the small town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, Davey Stone ( voice of and resemblance to Adam Sandler ), a 33-year-old alcoholic troublemaker with a long criminal record, is arrested for walking out on his bill at Mr. Chang's ( Rob Schneider ) Chinese restaurant and, while attempting to evade arrest (" Davey's Song "), destroying a giant Menorah / Santa ice sculpture.

However, by early morning Chinese activity increased and with the situation deteriorating on the Patricia's right flank, Stone withdrew B Company from their position forward of the feature's summit in order strengthen this flank in the event the Australians were forced to withdraw.

Meanwhile, a large Chinese force of perhaps company strength was detected in the re-entrant south of B Company, moving toward Battalion Headquarters, and Lilley warned Stone of the impending assault.

Stone held fire until the Chinese broke through the tree-line just from their front.

* Stone lions feature in a well-known Chinese tongue-twister: sì shì sì, shí shì shí, shí sì shì shí sì, sì shí shì sì shí, sì shí sì zhī shí shī zǐ shì sǐ de.

Actress Sharon Stone caused significant controversy when she suggested that the 2008 Sichuan earthquake may have been the result of " bad karma ," because the Chinese " are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.

The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den () is a 92-character modern poem written in Classical Chinese by Yuen Ren Chao ( 1892 – 1982 ), in which every syllable has the sound shi ( in different tones ) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese.

He ( 鞨 ) is Gal, Gat in Middle Chinese, ' Gal ' meaning is Stone by Mohe / Malgal, Jie / Gal language.

While known to earlier explorers, including the Dutch, the area was first explicitly mentioned in Chinese annals in 1694 as Shimenshan ( 石門山 ; Stone Gate Mountain ).

In The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions: The Legacy of the Jewish Community in Ancient China, Tiberiu Weisz, a teacher of Hebrew history and Chinese religion, presents his own translations of the 1489, 1512, and 1663 stone stelae left by the descendants of the Kaifeng Jews.

* The Chinese Lost Battalion during the Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937

The main border crossing between Macau and China is the Portas do Cerco ( Barrier Gate ) Frontier Checkpoint on the Macau side, and the Gongbei checkpoint on the Chinese side.

* July 23 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of Dragon Gate Taoism ( b. 1148 )

The Japanese troops gathered 1, 300 Chinese soldiers and civilians at Taiping Gate and killed them.

A political cartoon from 1882, showing a Chinese man being barred entry to the " Golden Gate of Liberty ".

Outside the city, at Zijinshan ( 紫金山 ) ( northeast of Guanghua Gate ) and Yuhuatai ( 雨花台 ) ( south of Zhonghua Gate ), Japanese and Chinese troops were locked in a desperate struggle.

The 36th Division of the Chinese Army was positioned at the Yijiang Gate, the northwest gate of the city leading to the riverfront, with orders to stop any retreat.

The streets toward the Yijiang Gate became congested with thousands of retreating Chinese soldiers and civilians.

On the night of December 12, multitudes of Chinese soldiers rushed to Yijiang Gate, which had been fortified with timbers and sandbags.

* The Chinese name 北落师门 ( Mandarin: Běilàshīmén ) meaning North Gate of the Military Camp, because this star is marking itself and stand alone in North Gate of the Military Camp asterism, Encampment mansion ( see: Chinese constellation ).

Bolton's location of the Issedones on the south-western slopes of the Altay mountains, Carl P. Ruck places Hyperborea beyond the Dzungarian Gate into northern Xinjiang, noting that the Hyperboreans were probably Chinese.

The Gateless Gate was assembled by the early 13th century Chinese Zen master Wumen Hui-k ' ai ( 無門慧開 ).

The novels Moment in Peking () ( 1939 ), A Leaf in the Storm ( 1940 ), and The Vermillion Gate () ( 1953 ) were well received epics of China in turmoil, while Chinatown Family ( 1948 ) presented the lives of Chinese Americans in New York.

Other events created by the Society are: the Atomic Cafe, the Chinese New Year ’ s Treasure Hunt, the picnic on the Golden Gate Bridge, the Brides of March, Urban Iditarod, and the Sewer Walk.

The Chinese name of the gate, Tiānānmén 天安門, pronounced, is made up of the Chinese characters for " heaven ," " peace " and " gate " respectively, which is why the name is conventionally translated as " The Gate of Heavenly Peace ".

* The Goof – officially the Garden Gate Restaurant, a well-known Canadian Chinese restaurant in the Beaches since 1952, located at 2379 Queen Street East.

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980.

This is consistent with the Chinese Buddhist notion that the " Gate of Emptiness " 空門 is basically a synonym for Buddhism, or Buddhist practice.

* The Gateless Gate at sacred-texts. com, including Chinese original