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2. Chinese classics - Wikipedia

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   The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC. Prominent examples include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form of written Chinese ...

3. Mien Shiang - Wikipedia

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   Mien shiang (Chinese: 面 相; pinyin: miànxiàng meaning face (mien) reading (shiang)) is a physiognomic and fortune-telling practice in Chinese culture and traditional Chinese medicine which purports to determine aspects of person's character, personality, and (future) health by analyzing their face according to the five phases ("wu xing").

4. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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   Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally ...

5. Chinese literature - Wikipedia

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   Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture – Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture The Columbia University Press web page accompanying Cai 2008 has PDF and MP3 files for more than 75 poems and CUP's web page accompanying Cui 2012 includes MP3 files ...

6. Classic Chinese Novels - Wikipedia

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   Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera. Sha Wujing, Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie ( Journey to the West) in Shao opera. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu ( Dream of the Red Chamber) in Yue opera. Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu ( Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in Sichuan opera. Ma Lin, Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, and Qin Ming ( Water Margin) in ...

7. I Ching - Wikipedia

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   The I Ching or Yi Jing ( Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ⓘ ), usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC). Over the course of the Warring ...