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Fenghuang and Chinese
"( For commoners ) It is forbidden to wear any cloth with patterns of Qilin, Male Fenghuang ( Chinese phoenix ), White rabbit, Lingzhi, Five-Toe Two-Horn Long, Eight Longs, Nine Longs, ' Ten thousand years ', Fortune-longevity character and Golden Yellow etc.
Chinese jade ornament with Chinese dragon | dragon and Fenghuang | phoenix design, late Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 BC-482 BC ).
* Fenghuang: Chinese mythical bird, sometimes translated as " phoenix "
The Fenghuang is also called the " August Rooster " () since it sometimes takes the place of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac.
* The Vermilion Bird of the South, one of the Four Symbols of Chinese myth, is sometimes confused with the Fenghuang, though they are distinct entities.
Following in the line of Cybers ( Cyber Dragon representing the Chinese dragon, Cyber Phoenix representing the Fenghuang, and Cyber Kirin representing the Qilin ), a monster named Cyber Esper exists that has a telepathic ability to see the opponent's cards whenever they're drawn.
In the Song Dynasty, tea started to be pressed into tea cake, some embossed with patterns of the Chinese dragon and the Fenghuang and was called exotic names including:
The design of cards in the Cyber Dragon and Cyberdark series has links to Chinese mythology, with such references present throughout his deck, including mentions of the Chinese dragon, Qilin, and Fenghuang.

Fenghuang and Phoenix
The Shanghai Automobile assembly line produced its first car on 28 September 1958, called Fenghuang ( meaning Phoenix in English ).

Fenghuang and at
The Longjing, literally " Dragon Well ", is located at Fenghuang Mountain.

Fenghuang and China
In contrast, the Empress of China was often identified with the Fenghuang.
* Fenghuang is also a county in western Hunan province of China, formerly a sub-prefecture.
* Tongren Fenghuang Airport, China, IATA code

Chinese and Phoenix
* Phoenix ( Chinese astronomy ), constellation
During their hiatus, Philip Bailey released his second and most commercially successful solo project, the Gold album Chinese Wall, featuring the Phoenix Horns and produced by Phil Collins.
* Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, Udn, Phoenix TV, and World Journal Global Top Ten Chinese Movie Stars Award 1996
Phoenix Television was the only Chinese station to broadcast the news, did so on its on-screen ticker from about 19h00.
In the West, it is commonly referred to as the Chinese phoenix or simply Phoenix.
* Phoenix talons () is a Chinese dish of chicken talons cooked in a black bean sauce.
For example, in Phoenix, Arizona, the state's first 99 Ranch Market opened as part of a larger " Chinese Cultural Center " that offers a number of Asian restaurants and shops for the city and surrounding areas.
* Cymbidium dayanum: Phoenix Orchid, Tree Orchid, Day's Cymbidium ( Chinese: 冬鳳蘭 ) ( Himalaya to S. Japan and Malaysia )
Only later in his career did he participate in comedy roles including Enter the Phoenix, McDull, the Alumni, A Chinese Tall Story.
The Phoenix Program (, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix ) was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), United States special operations forces, and the Republic of Vietnam's ( South Vietnam ) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.
The Award was jointly sponsored by Phoenix Television, Baidu, and Beijing Youth Daily and recognised the achievements of the " most influential Chinese in 2006 ".
His military decorations and awards include the Lancaster County Veterans Association of Veterans Award for excellence and military preservation ; Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters ; Army Distinguished Service Medal ; Silver Star with oak leaf cluster ; Legion of Merit ; Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster ; Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ; French Croix de Guerre with Palm ; Chinese Order of the Cloud and Banner, 1st Class with Grand Cordon, and 2d Class ; Republic of Korea National Security Merit First Class ; the Vietnamese National Order of Vietnam / Commander and Gallantry Cross with Palm ; Grand Cross, Royal Order of Phoenix ( Greece ); and Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit ( Spain ).
File: Byodo-in Uji01pbs2640. jpg | The symetrical and highly ornamental architecture of the Phoenix Hall in Byōdō-in Garden, Kyoto, ( 1052 A. D .) was inspired by Chinese Song Dynasty architecture.
* Phoenix Chinese Channel-24-hour Mandarin international news and entertainment channel it was launched on 31 March 1996.
Enter the Phoenix ( Chinese: 大佬愛美麗, Daai lo oi mei lai, literally " Big brother loves beauty ") is a 2004 Hong Kong film directed by Stephen Fung.
It is named for the Phoenix bird in the mythologies of Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, and Phoenicians that would live for about 500 to 1000 years, die in a self-inflicted fire and be reborn from the ashes.
There are also Chinese calligraphy paintings in the station, titled The Phoenix ’ s-Eye Domain, the significance of Chinatown and is painted by renowned Singapore artist Tan Swie Hian.
; Chinese Phoenix: Two basic creatures are described as a symbol of eternal love: the male Feng and the female Huang.
Colomb entered the navy in 1846, and served first at sea off Portugal in 1847 ; afterwards, in 1848, in the Mediterranean, and from 1848 to 1851 as midshipman of the Reynard in operations against piracy in Chinese waters ; as midshipman and shipmate of the Serpent during the Burmese War of 1852-53 ; as mate of the Phoenix in the Arctic Expedition of 1854 ; as lieutenant of the Hastings in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War, taking part in the attack on Sveaborg.
Water still drips from the head of the stalactite bird, and hence the Chinese have dubbed it the Drinking Phoenix Spring ( 凤凰泉 ).
* Phoenix North America Chinese Channel
After their success and the stowaways picked up from France ( two Chinese men ) they opened a new part of the club called the Golden Phoenix where they served Chinese food.

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The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).
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.
The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.
Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.
From the 2000s many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workforce for large ( construction or other ) enterprises.
Observers claim that the Chinese community in Angola might include as many as 300, 000 persons at the end of 2010, but nothing near to reliable statistics are at this stage available on this point.
* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.
Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.
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.
Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.
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.
Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.
He was inspired by Chinese characters, with which he became familiar at Shanghai.
In 2005, the CCC established that the winner of the Chinese event was to be given a seat at the World Championships.
Ancient Chinese records mention two kings, Shrutavarman and Shreshthavarman who ruled at the capital Shreshthapura located in modern day southern Laos.
With the order of 12 new Chinese locomotives, built specially for Cuban Railways at China Northern Locomotives and Rolling Stock Works, services have been improving in reliability.
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.
The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

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