" China has an ongoing military-military relationship with Cameroon, which includes training for Cameroonian military students each year in China, technical advisors to assist in repairing Cameroonian military vehicles and naval vessels, and Chinese military sales.

The Chinese have a tradition of holding spectacular memorial ceremonies of Confucius () every year, using ceremonies that supposedly derived from Zhou Li () as recorded by Confucius, on the date of Confucius ' birth.

The year 2012 in the Chinese calendar is the Year of the Dragon.

The earliest evidence of the Chinese calendar is found on the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty ( late second millennium BC ), which seem to describe a lunisolar year of 12 months, with a possible intercalary 13th, or even 14th, added empirically to prevent calendar drift.

The sìfēn 四分 ( quarter remainder ) calendar, which began about 484 BC, was the first calculated Chinese calendar, so named because it used a solar year of 365¼ days ( the same as the 1st century BC Julian Calendar of Rome ), along with a 19-year ( 235-month ) Rule Cycle zhang 章, known in the West as the Metonic cycle.

With the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $ 1. 7 million a year in the 1960s.

In 1906 he finished his coursework, having focused the last year on courses in anthropology and taking seminars such as Primitive Culture with Farrand, Ethnology with Boas, Archaeology and courses in Chinese language and culture with Berthold Laufer.

Whether to insert an intercalary month in a given year may be determined using regular cycles such as the 19-year Metonic cycle ( Hebrew calendar and in the determination of Easter ) or using calculations of lunar phases ( Hindu lunisolar and Chinese calendars ).

Following a revolt, 5, 000 Chinese were massacred by the Dutch and natives on 9 October 1740 and the following year, Chinese inhabitants were moved to Glodok outside the city walls.

Rafael traded with the Chinese merchants in Canton in that year and in 1516, but was not allowed to move further.

Later that year, the Chinese armed forces, inspired by the republican ideas of Sun, rose up in insurrection against the Emperor across southern China, sparking the Xinhai Revolution.

Later that year, Chinese media reported that Miyazaki's final film project would be I Lost My Little Boy, based on a Chinese children's book.

Government figures indicate that 5, 000 Chinese miners die in accidents each year, while other reports have suggested a figure as high as 20, 000.

After 18 months ' training, he spent a year in India working with the Chinese Intelligence Unit doing counter-intelligence work.

Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ), and its associated fields such as acupuncture, base their system on mystical numerical associations, such as the “ 12 vessels circulating blood and air corresponding to the 12 rivers flowing toward the Central Kingdom ; and 365 parts of the body, one for each day of the year ” being the basis of locating acupuncture points.

Chinese premier Zhou Enlai visited Pyongyang that year and apologized for the attacks made on Kim by the Red Guards.

* The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, occurs every year on the new moon of the first lunar month, about four to eight weeks before spring ( Lichun ).

It is the most important Chinese celebration of the year.

* 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March ; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.

The numbers of the Chinese immigration went from 20, 000 a year to 8 people after the government-imposed " head tax ".

Popular topical themes are animals, dogs, cats, butterflies, birds, flowers, art, sports, Olympics, maps, Disney, scouting, space, ships, Americana ( topics relating to the US ), stamps on stamps, famous people, chess, Chinese new year, and many others.

The creation of Taichuli was regarded as a revolution in the Chinese calendar tradition, as it stated that there were 365. 25 days in a year and 29. 53 days in a month.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

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There have been attempts to incorporate democracy, republicanism, and industrialism into Chinese philosophy, notably by Sun Yat-Sen ( Sūn yì xiān, in one Mandarin form of the name ) at the beginning of the 20th century.

Eventually he spends ten years in a Chinese prison before being released and embarking on a solution to the mystery that has haunted him his entire life: the fate of his mother who disappeared at the beginning of WWII.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

Mao Zedong summarized basic guerrilla tactics at the beginning of the Chinese " Second Revolutionary Civil War " as: " The enemy advances, we retreat ; the enemy camps, we harass ; the enemy tires, we attack ; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

Although high level of stylization, mystical appeal, and surreal elegance were often preferred over realism ( such as in shan shui style ), beginning with the medieval Song Dynasty there were many Chinese painters then and afterwards who depicted scenes of nature that were vividly real.

He was less enamored of the architecture, however ; beginning in the 1950s Chinese buildings closely followed Western styles.

In the Chinese language, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In October 1965, Jakarta was the site of an abortive coup attempt in which 6 top generals were killed, precipitating a violent anti-communist purge in which half-a million people were killed, including many ethnic Chinese, and the beginning of Suharto's New Order.

The first written records of a civilization in the area occupied by Kyrgyzstan appear in Chinese chronicles beginning about 2000 B. C.

Likewise, Asian martial arts become well-documented during the medieval period, Japanese martial arts beginning with the establishment of the samurai nobility in the 12th century, Chinese martial arts with Ming era treatises such as Ji Xiao Xin Shu, Indian martial arts in medieval texts such as the Agni Purana and the Malla Purana, and Korean martial arts with Joseon era texts such as Muyejebo ( 1598 ).

But in the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the month is marked by the dark moon.

* The new moon is the beginning of the month in the Chinese calendar.

The game is said to have originated in China ( it closely resembles the Chinese game of " Jianshizi ", or " picking stones "), but the origin is uncertain ; the earliest European references to Nim are from the beginning of the 16th century.

The Ryūkyū Kingdom had a tributary relationship with the Chinese Empire beginning in the 15th century.

Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for the fashion for Chinese themes in decoration in Western Europe, beginning in the late 17th century and peaking in waves, especially Rococo Chinoiserie, ca.

However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the origins of native Chinese philosophy developed, its initial stages beginning in the 6th century BC.

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese, were a series of popular demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing beginning on 15 April 1989.

By the beginning of the 1st century, the Alans had occupied lands in the northeast Azov Sea area, along the Don and by the 2nd century had amalgamated or joined with the Yancai of the early Chinese records to extend their control all the way along the trade routes from the Black Sea to the north of the Caspian and Aral seas.