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.

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 ).

It is suggested that an entirely black and white color combination on the one's and four's sides would be unlucky ; red, a lucky color in Chinese culture, would counteract this.

black or mulatto 90 %, white 5 %, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5 %

The opium addicts were mostly women who were prescribed and dispensed legal opiates by physicians and pharmacist for ” female problems ,” probably mostly pain at menstruation, or white men and Chinese at the Opium dens.

According to some, results of keno games in great cities were sent to outlying villages and hamlets by carrier pigeons, resulting in its Chinese name 白鸽票 báigē piào, literally “ white dove ticket ”, pronounced baak-gap-piu in Cantonese ( which the Western spelling ' pak-ah-pu ' / ' pakapoo ' was based on ).

In China, Guanyin is sometimes shown in a white flowing robe and usually wears necklaces of Indian / Chinese royalty.

In Chinese art, Guanyin is often depicted either alone, standing atop a dragon, accompanied by a white parrot, flanked by two children, or flanked by two warriors.

African and African-white-Indian mixture 90 %, white 5 %, Indian Tamil or East Indian, Chinese less than 5 %

Likewise, American law sought to contain addiction to immigrants by prohibiting Chinese from smoking opium in the presence of a white man.

The 1817 census recorded 821 white inhabitants, a garrison of 820 men, 618 Chinese indentured labourers, 500 free blacks and 1, 540 slaves.

There are at least six different types of tea: white, yellow, green, oolong ( or wulong ), black ( called red tea in China ), and post-fermented tea ( or black tea for the Chinese ) of which the most commonly found on the market are white, green, oolong, and black.

Flavored teas are prepared by adding other plants to an actual tea ( black, oolong, green, yellow, or white tea ); for example, the popular Earl Grey tea is black tea with bergamot ( the orange oil, not the herb of the same name ), jasmine tea is Chinese tea with jasmine flowers, and genmaicha is a Japanese green tea with toasted rice.

* Shawarma ( Mandarin Chinese: 沙威馬 shāwēimǎ )-A sandwich usually made from spiced, grilled chicken and served on a leavened, white flour bun with julienned cabbage, a slice of tomato, sliced onions, ketchup, and mayonnaise.

King became alarmed upon hearing that white women were also opium users, not just Chinese men, and he then initiated the process that led to the first legislation outlawing narcotics in Canada.

* September 2 – The Rock Springs Massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming ; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

Although the first Chinese migrants had been invited by the Otago Provincial government they quickly became the target of hostility from white settlers and laws were enacted specifically to discourage them from coming to New Zealand.

The Chinese have long used the bark of Magnolia officinalis, a magnolia native to the mountains of China with large leaves and fragrant white flowers, as a remedy for cramps, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and indigestion.

According to a Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office ( DPMO ) white paper, 1, 394 names were also transmitted during " Operation Glory " from the Chinese and North Koreans, of which 858 proved to be correct.

Competition on the goldfields, particularly resentment among white miners towards the successes of Chinese miners, led to tensions between groups and eventually a series of significant protests and riots, including the Buckland Riot in 1857 and the Lambing Flat Riots between 1860 and 1861.

Their arguments were that Asians and Chinese took jobs away from white men, worked for " substandard " wages, lowered working conditions and refused unionisation.

Also on display are important collections of ceramics, including numerous pieces of blue and white porcelain collected by Queen Mary II, both Chinese imports and Delftware.

Newspapers around the country and especially in California started to discredit and blame the Chinese for most things, e. g., white unemployment.

**** Baiji ( or Chinese river dolphin ), † Lipotes vexillifer ( functionally extinct, since December 2006 )

There have been some recent reports of dolphin watching practices that have further endangered the Chinese white dolphins.

However, in Cantonese, wu refers to the calves of Chinese white dolphin and bak refers to the adults.

* 1637: The Chinese white dolphin was first discovered in Hong Kong by the adventurer Peter Mundy near the Pearl River.

* Late 1980s: Environmentalists started to pay attention to the Chinese white dolphin population.

* Early 1990: The Hong Kong public started to become aware of the Chinese white dolphin.

* 1997: The Chinese white dolphin became the official mascot of the 1997 sovereignty changing ceremonies in Hong Kong.

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* S. chinensis ( Chinese white dolphin, Pacific humpback dolphin or Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin )

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These discoveries are: the Chinese river dolphin ( Lipotes vexillifer ; family Lipotidae ) in 1918, the Zagros mouse-like hamster ( Calomyscus bailwardi ; family Calomyscidae ) in 1905, and Goeldi's marmoset ( Callimico goeldii ; family Callimiconidae ) in 1904.

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