But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

There is, however, speculation that local criminal gangs barter abalone illegally with Chinese nationals in exchange for chemicals used in the production of drugs, reducing the need for the use of money and hence avoiding money laundering difficulties.

Native Chinese cuisine makes frequent use of Asian leaf vegetables like bok choy and kai-lan and puts a greater emphasis on fresh meat and seafood.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

The early use of Chinese astrology was mainly confined to political astrology, the observation of unusual phenomena, identification of portents and the selection of auspicious days for events and decisions.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

A Chinese book on houseplants written in 1st – 3rd centuries BC mentioned a medical use of Ephedra and opium poppies.

During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas ' remarks on China's teams ' possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and international communities.

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

Other languages use fricative and often trilled segments as syllabic nuclei, as in Czech and several languages in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China, including Mandarin Chinese.

In 1455, in an effort to control inflation, the succeeding Ming Dynasty ended the use of paper money and closed much of Chinese trade.

Today speakers of Chinese use three numeral systems:

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.

Chinese dominoes should not be confused with mahjong tiles, which use a different tileset.

Three of these use the Chinese character 儒 rú, meaning " scholar ".

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.

* NJStar Software Corp. ( 南极星 Nanjixing ): Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language software solutions for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Its use of flavouring is much less heavy-handed than most other Chinese cuisines and depends much on the freshness and quality of the ingredients for taste and flavour.

In addition to soy sauce ( widely used in all Chinese cuisines ), Teochew cuisine is one of the few regional Chinese that makes use of fish sauce due to Chaoshan's coastal land.

Chinese cuisine uses liquorice as a culinary spice for savoury foods.

In Ayurveda ( traditional Indian medicine ) and traditional Chinese medicine, liquorice ( म ु ल े ठ ी, 甘草 ) is commonly used in herbal formulae to " harmonize " the other ingredients in the formula and to carry the formula to the twelve " regular meridians " and to relieve a spasmodic cough.

Examples of herbal treatments with likely cause-effect relationships with adverse events include aconite, which is often a legally restricted herb, ayurvedic remedies, broom, chaparral, Chinese herb mixtures, comfrey, herbs containing certain flavonoids, germander, guar gum, liquorice root, and pennyroyal.

* Glycyrrhiza uralensis – Chinese liquorice

Chinese languages treat these two phones differently ; for example in Mandarin, ( written b in Pinyin ) and ( written p ) contrast phonemically.

However, Jacques ( 2006 ) notes, " comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages ( the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese )," and that " it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family ," as the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese.

The more common theory is that the name originated in the Western regions of the United States, and is derived from a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake ( Enhydris chinensis ) used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain.

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier to add numerals and other quantifiers.

Activated Aconite is used as an herb in Chinese traditional medicine, including in a formula to treat Arthritis.

Among other species, varieties and cultivars, Amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and Vietnam is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat stomach issues, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems.

In Chinese medicine, tsao-ko is used to treat stomach disorders and malaria.

In Chinese medicine cloves or ding xiang are considered acrid, warm and aromatic, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians, and are notable in their ability to warm the middle, direct stomach qi downward, to treat hiccough and to fortify the kidney yang.

Every two weeks, the prisoners receive “ a special meal of pork broth soup and white-flour steamed buns .” Important Chinese holidays such as New Year ’ s, National Day, and the Spring Festival are celebrated with meat dumplings, a special treat in an otherwise meatless diet.

One has been to treat it as simply a font issue so that different fonts might be used to render Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the dried peel of the fruit is used in the regulation of ch ' i, and also used to treat abdominal distension, to enhance digestion, and to reduce phlegm.

Nature has made a race of workers, the Chinese race, who have wonderful manual dexterity and almost no sense of honor ... A race of tillers of the soil, the Negro ; treat him with kindness and humanity, and all will be as it should ; a race of masters and soldiers, the European race.

The Joseon and Chinese leaders saw no reason to concede to such demands, nor to treat the invaders as equals within the Ming trading system.

While Chinese scholarship continues to place the " Zhuang – Dong languages " among the Sino-Tibetan family, other linguists treat the Tai languages as a separate family.

In traditional Chinese herbology, E. sinica is included in many herbal formulas used to treat cold and flu such as 麻黃湯 ma huang tang ( ephedra decoction ) or 麻杏石甘湯 ma xing shi gan tang ( ephedra, apricot kernel, gypsum, and licorice decoction ).

The main lesson is twofold: ( 1 ) Internally, arouse the masses of the people ; ( 2 ) Externally, unite in a common struggle with those nations of the world which treat Chinese as equals.

) Traditional Chinese gardens are also more likely to treat the plants in a naturalistic way, while traditional Japanese gardens might feature plants sheared into mountain shapes.

Although the Chinese government has been making great efforts to popularize Mandarin by administrative means, most Taishan residents do not speak Mandarin in their daily lives, but treat it as a foreign language, with Cantonese being the lingua franca of their region.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the fruit is used to treat prematurely grey hair, to " tonify " the blood, and treat constipation and diabetes.