Luxist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chinese fortune telling - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_fortune_telling

   The fortune teller is counting a woman, in the late 19th century. Chinese fortune telling, better known as Suan ming (Chinese: 算命; pinyin: Suànmìng; lit. 'fate calculating') has utilized many varying divination techniques throughout the dynastic periods. There are many methods still in practice in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and ...

3. Kau chim - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kau_chim

   Kau chim, kau cim, chien tung, [1] "lottery poetry" and Chinese fortune sticks are names for a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which a person poses questions and interprets answers from flat sticks inscribed with text or numerals. The practice is often performed in a Taoist or Buddhist temple in front of an altar.

4. Mien Shiang - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mien_Shiang

   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").

5. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical...

   Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

6. Chinese character education - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_education

   The teaching methods for Chinese character reading include: [15] Phonetic literacy. In the early years, Chinese phonetic symbols bopomofo were the major tools for phonetic annotation. After the Hanyu Pinyin scheme was announced in 1958, Hanyu Pinyin has become the most-frequently used tools. In 1982, the primary school Chinese language teaching ...

7. I Ching - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

   The I Ching or Yijing (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 States ...