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Emishi. The Emishi ( 蝦夷) (also called Ebisu and Ezo ), written with Kanji that literally mean " shrimp barbarians ," constituted an ancient ethnic group of people who lived in parts of Honshū, especially in the Tōhoku region, referred to as michi no oku (道の奥, roughly "deepest part of the road") in contemporary sources.
The Chinese used to call them "Ch'an-t'ou" ('Turbaned Heads') but this term has been dropped, being considered derogatory, and the Chinese, using their own pronunciation, now called them Weiwuerh. As a matter of fact there was for centuries no 'national' name for them; people identified themselves with the oasis they came from, such as Kashgar ...
Taishanese people ( Chinese: 台山 人, Taishanese: Hoi San Ngin ), Sze Yup people ( Chinese: 四 邑 人, Taishanese: Hlei Yip Ngin ), or Toisanese [1] are a Yue -speaking Han Chinese group coming from Sze Yup ( 四 邑 ), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui and Enping. Heshan has since been added to ...
Standard Chinese is an official language of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and was first officially adopted in the 1930s.
Taishanese ( Chinese: 台山话; pinyin: Táishān huà; Jyutping: toi4 saan1 waa2 ), alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisan-wa, is a Yue Chinese dialect native to Taishan, Guangdong. Although related, Taishanese has little mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.
Taoism ( / ˈdaʊ.ɪzəm / ⓘ, / ˈtaʊ.ɪzəm / ⓘ) or Daoism is a diverse tradition indigenous to China, variously characterized as both a philosophy and a religion. Taoism emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao —generally understood as being the impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
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The xiezhi ( 獬豸 [a]; xièzhì < Eastern Han Chinese * gɛʔ-ḍɛʔ [1] : 620 ) is a mythical creature of Chinese origin found throughout Sinospheric legends. It resembles an ox or goat, with thick dark fur covering its body, bright eyes, and a single long horn on its forehead.