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

* a Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow

The Chinese also built the first repeating fire-arm, several barrels behind a small wooden shield, the musketeer would turn the barrels and light each barrel with a slow match one by one.

Tsao responded that he was merely being sarcastic and provocative, repeating themes which were often discussed in Chinese media, and accused his critics themselves of being racist and lacking the ability to " read between the lines ".

Chinese repeating crossbow ( non-recurve version-ones used for war would be recurved )

Controversy arose after the DCCC issued press releases on June 29 and July 2, 2012 which claimed that funds from which Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, donates to the Republican Party come in part from “ Chinese prostitution money .” The press releases were repeating allegations from one of Adelson ’ s former employees who filed a lawsuit and alleged that Adelson “ approved of prostitution at a casino in Macau .” The DCCC repeated the charges in press releases that attacked Republicans Jim Renacci, Scott DesJarlais, and Jim Gerlach.

Chinese repeating crossbow ( non-recurve version ; ones used for war would be recurved )

The Chinese repeating crossbow (; sometimes romanized as " chu-ko-nu ") is a device with a simple design.

The Chinese repeating crossbow had a maximum range of 120 meters, with an effective range of 60 meters, far less than that of a non-repeating crossbow.

The maximum range of a Chinese repeating using a light bolt is about 120 meters and the effective range was about 60 meters.

* A highlight of the World Traditional Archery Festival in Korea was a demonstation of the Chinese repeating crossbow.

As a famous and fearless China journalist and writer, Dai hoped her writing would encourage Chinese people to speak out and avoid repeating past mistakes.

The Chinese community was gripped with fear of the possibility of May 13 repeating, and many Chinese businesses around the city was closed for a few days to avoid any potential attacks from the Malay ultra-nationalists.

Chromium oxide was used by the Chinese in the Qin dynasty over 2, 000 years ago to coat weapons such as bronze crossbow bolts and steel swords found at the Terracotta Army.

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

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

The earliest Chinese document mentioning a crossbow is in scripts from the 4th – 3rd century BC attributed to the followers of Mozi.

The Chinese invention of the hand-held, trigger-mechanism crossbow during this period revolutionized warfare, giving greater emphasis to infantry and cavalry and less to traditional chariot warfare.

A Han Dynasty Chinese crossbow from the 2nd century BC.

* Chinese use the handheld trigger crossbow for the first time.

* Battle of Shanzhou: The Liao Dynasty general Xiao Talin is picked off by an elite Song Chinese crossbow sniper.

The crossbow, invented by Chinese in the 4th century BC, and by Greeks in the 5th century BC, was considered the most important weapon of the Chinese armies.

The small and light arrow of the comparatively weak Chinese crossbow had little penetrative power.

* Answer Chu ( Chinese )

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

* 223 BC: The Chinese Qin State conquers Chu.

* Qu Yuan, Chinese poet and scholar from State of Chu ( 340 – 278 BC )

* 632 BC: In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of Chu and her allies.

* Chu Suiliang, Chinese Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty ( d. 658 )

* Chu Suiliang, Chinese Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty ( b. 597 )

In Qinghai, the river's Tibetan name is " River of the Peacock " ( Tibetan: །, Ma Chu ; Chinese:,, Mǎ Qū ).

* 632 BC — In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of Chu and her allies.

On June 18, 2012, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution introduced by Congresswoman Judy Chu, that formally expresses the regret of the House of Representatives for the Chinese Exclusion Act, which imposed almost total restrictions on Chinese immigration and naturalization and denied Chinese-Americans basic freedoms because of their ethnicity.

* Wu Zixu, political advisor from Chu who has been employed at the court of the State of Wu during the reign of King Helü of Wu ; all Chinese people with the surname Wu consider him their first ancestor ( b. 526 BC )

* Qu Yuan, Chinese poet from southern Chu who lived during the Warring States Period.

According to Sinologist Robert K. G. Temple, the well temperament was first invented by the Chinese prince of the Ming dynasty Chu Tsai-Yü in 1584 and came in contact with Western culture during exchange fairs organized by the Cantonese viceroy in that time.

* Wu Qi, Chinese military general, Prime Minister of the State of Chu, also a servant of the State of Lu ( born in Wei )

Chu was nominally a tributary state of the Zhou Dynasty, and it was itself an extension of the Chinese civilization that had emerged some centuries before in the north ; but it was also culturally unique, and was a powerful state that held onto much of the middle and lower Yangtze River, with power extending northwards into the North China Plain.

Mencius, for instance, criticized an ex-student of Xu Xing, a " barbarian " from Chu who became a leading Chinese philosopher of Agriculturalism.

* Sam Chu Lin, pioneering Chinese American journalist

Zhū Róngjī ( pinyin: Zhū Róngjī ; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi ; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928 in Changsha, Hunan ) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.

** Sir Moilin Jean Ah-Chuen 朱梅麟 ( 1909-1991 ; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ; Hakka pronunciation: Chu Moi Lin ), First Chinese member, Legislative Council, 1949 ; Minister of Local Government, 1967 – 1976 ; Second Hakka after Sun Yatsen to have his portrait printed on the bills of a country's currency

The Jurchens then invaded territories under the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty and overran most of northern China, first setting up puppet regimes like Qi and Chu, later directly ruling as a dynastic state in Northern China named Jin (" Gold ", not to be confused with the several Jin Dynasties named after the region around Shanxi and Henan ).

** Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon ; this one-day holiday dubbed the Dragon Boat Festival was held in honor of an ancient Chinese statesman Qu Yuan ( c. 340 BC-278 BC ) from the State of Chu.

After the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University were both relocated in Hsin Chu, Taiwan and became neighbors.

A Chinese lacquer coffin decorated with birds and dragons, from the State of Chu, 4th century BC.