In between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China ; in some eras, including the present, control has stretched as far as Xinjiang and / or Tibet.

The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.

However, the Japanese stretched too far out westward and were counter-attacked by Chinese forces from the south and the north, forcing them to retreat eastward.

By the 1st century, the Chinese also established relations with the Kingdom of Funan, centered in what is now Cambodia, but stretched partly into Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Dato Loke also bought over an existing film studio in Hong Kong in 1955 and started to produce a library of Chinese films to supply to his chain of cinemas which stretched from Singapore, Malaya and Borneo to Bangkok.

Unlike many Chinese county-level cities, which include a county-size expanse of the countryside, the boundaries of Linxia City include only a fairly small area ( 88. 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), stretched along the Daxia River, which in this region flows towards the northeast.

The name " butterfly kick " is due to the legs reaching the apex of their arc the arms are stretched out, leaving all limbs extended in a position similar to that of a butterfly's wings in-flight ( however, note that the original Chinese word for this technique contains no references to butterflies or kicks ).

Whereas the primary meanings of the Lo Shu diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties -- and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on some mathematical bases -- the urgent desire to place everything into categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until an exaggerated emphasis on mere numerology pervaded Chinese thought.

); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

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

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Some of the Chinese beads and wares found their way deep into the interior of Borneo.

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

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.

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

Chinese chronicles proclaim that in the 8th century, Chenla was split into land Chenla and water Chenla.

" Japanese-made Chinese "), and many of these words have been re-loaned into modern Chinese.

For example, jīngjì ( 经济 ／ 經濟, keizai ), which in the original Chinese meant " the workings of the state ", was narrowed to " economy " in Japanese ; this narrowed definition was then re-imported into Chinese.

The conventional view of Chinese history is that of alternating periods of political unity and disunity, with China occasionally being dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were in turn assimilated into the Han Chinese population.

Emperor Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.

Xinjiang, Tibet, and Mongolia were also formally incorporated into Chinese territory.

Lu Xun also criticised Confucianism heavily for shaping Chinese people into the condition they had reached by the late Qing Dynasty: his criticism are well portrayed in two of his works, A Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q.

It was during the Warring States era that the major philosophies of China, Confucianism, Mohism, Legalism, and Taoism, arose, along with philosophies that later fell into obscurity, like Agriculturalism, Chinese Naturalism, and the Logicians.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

During this era, Chinese scholars attempted to incorporate Western philosophical ideologies such as democracy, Marxism, socialism, liberalism, republicanism, and nationalism into Chinese philosophy.

The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square -- for purely mathematical reasons -- and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality.

One opponent wrote: " I am surprised that one would go looking for a Chinese architect in America to deal with the historic heart of the capital of France.

" Ai ," the traditional Chinese character for love ( 愛 ) consists of a heart ( middle ) inside of " accept ," " feel ," or " perceive ," which shows a graceful emotion.

The system was canonized in the Book of Rites, Zhouli, and Yili compendiums of the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ), thus becoming the heart of the Chinese imperial ideology.

Tsai developed in 1995 a 3-hypothesis theory that is claimed to provide a mechanism for mind-body interaction and explain many dream-related phenomena, including hypnosis, meridians in Chinese medicine, the increase in heart rate and breathing rate during REM sleep, that babies have longer REM sleep, lucid dreams, etc.

The ( 1932 – 1933 ) achieved some early successes, but Chiang ’ s armies were badly mauled when they tried to penetrate into the heart of Mao ’ s Soviet Chinese Republic.

According to a testimony delivered by missionary Ralph L. Phillips to the U. S. State Assembly Investigating Committee, he was " forced to watch while the Japs disembowled a Chinese soldier " and " roasted his heart and liver and ate them ".

In an article originally published in New Youth in January 1917 titled " A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform ", Hu originally emphasized eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart in writing:

While dim sum ( literally meaning: touch the heart ) was originally not a main meal, only a snack, and therefore only meant to touch the heart, it is now a staple of Chinese dining culture, especially in Hong Kong.

Some typical Peruvian dishes are ceviche ( fish and shellfish marinated in citrus juice ), chupe de camarones ( a soup made of shrimp known as cryphiops caementarius ), anticuchos ( cow's heart roasted en brochette ), olluco con charqui ( a casserole dish made of ulluco and charqui ), pachamanca ( meat, tubers and beans cooked in a stone oven ), lomo saltado ( meat fried lightly with tomato and onion, served with french fries and rice ) that has a Chinese influence, and the picante de cuy ( a casserole dish made of fried guinea pig with some spices ).

Minakata ’ s thirst for knowledge was growing bigger as he at home recited the Chinese classics and transcribed the books that he had learned by heart at a collector ’ s place.

Like the English small, the word in this context in Chinese can mean petty in mind and heart, narrowly self-interested, greedy, superficial, and materialistic.

It commands a strategic position at the crossroads of the ancient Southern Silk Route and the main road leading from India via Lhasa to Mongolia and Southern Siberia, as well as controlling the entrance to the narrow Hexi Corridor which led straight to the heart of the north Chinese plains and the ancient capitals of Chang ' an ( today known as Xi ' an ) and Luoyang.

Fu accomplished this by claiming that he was there to reward Xiyu kings with jewels and other precious items, and then, setting a private meeting up with Angui, he stabbed him in the heart, and then, warning that any further action would bring a large Chinese army, he got the Loulan nobles to submit and make a brother of Angui, Weituqi ( 尉屠耆 ), who was friendly to Han, king.

The city's heart is around the 大十字 ( literally " Big Cross ") which is a cross, resembling the Chinese character for ten, and 喷水池 ( literally " Fountain Pool ") which is a traffic intersection which had a large fountain at its center, until the fountain was paved over in early 2010 to help improve the flow of traffic.

These included Yew trees ( the bark is used for the cancer drug paclitaxel ); Hoodia ( from Namibia, a potential source of weight loss drugs ); half of Magnolias ( used as Chinese medicine for 5, 000 years to fight cancer, dementia and heart disease ); and Autumn crocus ( for gout ).

The English slogan is " united at heart for a better future " and the Chinese slogan is " 大華與您共創未來 " ( Dà Huá yǔ nín gòngchuàng wèilái " 99 Ranch is creating the future together with you ").

Some typical Peruvian dishes are ceviche ( fish and shellfish marinated in citrus juice ), the chupe de camarones ( a soup made of shrimp ( Cryphiops caementarius )), anticuchos ( cow's heart roasted en brochette ), the olluco con charqui ( a casserole dish made of ulluco and charqui ), the Andean pachamanca ( meats, tubers and broad beans cooked in a stone oven ), the lomo saltado ( meat fried lightly with tomato and onion, served with french fries and rice ) that has a Chinese influence, and the picante de cuy ( a casserole dish made of fried guinea pig with some spices ).

Located on a site in the heart of Scarborough's Chinese community, the first Centre at Scarborough McNicoll has a nursing home with a specialized Alzheimer's unit and long-term care facility that was honoured thrice as Grand Prize winner of the Ontario Long Term Care Association ( OLTCA ) Occupational Health and Safety Week Competition since 1997.

One Chinese idiom from him goes " there are whole bamboos in his heart " ( 胸有成竹 ), meaning that one has a well-thought-out plan in his mind.

Chinese culture has lauded shark fins alleged properties to boost sexual potency, enhance skin quality, increase one's qi or energy, prevent heart disease, and lower cholesterol.

The Central Institute for Correctional Police ( Chinese: 中央司法警官学院 Zhōngyāng sīfǎ jǐngguān xuéyuàn ) is located in Baoding, Hebei, China, at the heart of Beijing-Tianjin-Shijiazhuang triangle area.

While frequently used to describe edible stem of either of the two varieties of Chinese cabbage, usually the soft inner core of bok choy with the tougher outer leaves removed, the term can be applied to the " heart "– the soft core or flowering stem – of almost any vegetable such as kai-lan, including non-traditionally East Asian greens such as broccoli.

In China, Traditional Chinese medicine describes shenjingshuairuo as a depletion of qi " vital energy " and reduction of functioning in the wuzang " five internal organs " ( heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys ).