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	Chinese Written Characters on Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy. Chinese Painting, Calligraphy and Chinese Art for ...
		Below is a small sample of traditional Chinese written characters commonly found within Chinese paintings and Chinese calligraphy.
		The Chinese written character system is complex and unlike English, the combining of two or more Chinese characters may be inappropriate and/or alter its overall meaning.
		The below traditional Chinese characters are for reference only and not intended to be copied or used in any way, shape, or form.
	www.chinesepaintings.com /chinese-characters.html (157 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions long current among a particular ethnic population; in other words, the oral history of a particular culture.
		Johann Gottfried von Herder first advocated the deliberate recording and preservation of folklore to document the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the romantic nationalism which Herder developed.
		The modern western folklore that we are faced has been identified by some scholars as that of urban legend and conspiracy theory.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fo/Folklore (519 words)

	ipedia.com: Chinese dragon Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water a...
		Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water as the bringer of rain.
		That explains why the Chinese dragon has a body of a snake; the scales and tail of a fish; the antlers of a deer; the face of a qilin (a deer-like mythical creature with fire all over its body); and two pairs of talons of eagles; and the eyes of a demon.
	www.ipedia.com /chinese_dragon.html (750 words)

	Asian Gateways :: Chinese Tricksters
		Few modern Chinese artists choose traditional mythological subject matter for their art, while professional storytellers and actors in China and across Asia continue to tell the tales of traditional trickster animals such as the monkey, frog or toad, and fox in schools, at festivals, and in opera productions across the country.
		The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supported the Chinese Artists Association, and other local artists' groups in order to encourage the manufacture of art for local sale as well as export, but canceled exhibitions and events if their content was deemed too critical of the regime.
		Chinese artists living abroad, in spite of their greater political and social freedoms, were often constrained artistically; their works often conformed to "Chinese characteristics" or techniques extolled and labeled by art communities in the West.
	gallery.sjsu.edu /oldworld/asiangate/chin_tricksters_full.html (5830 words)

	Rites of Passage in Chinese Societies
		Chinese, when the word is used to refer to the people, may have layers of meaning: geographic, political, racial/ethnic, religious, and cultural.
		While China is "fluid," we tend to use "Chinese societies" to refer to all the societies and communities of the Chinese people beyond and unlimited to the geographic, political, linguistic, and racial/ethnic boundaries.
		The study of Chinese rites of passage is indeed a unique and little explored channel to unveil the "mystery" of Chinese culture.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/chinese/ch252.htm (3629 words)

	The Chinese Dragon
		Also, since the Chinese consider Huang Di as their ancestor, they sometimes refer themselves as "the descendants of the dragons".
		Chinese Dragons have five toes on each foot; Korean or Indonesian dragons have four and Japanese dragons have three.
		For example, a Chinese dragon is normally described in terms of nine attributes and usually has 117 scales - 81 (9x9) male and 36 (9x4) female.
	www.chineseculture.info /culture/dragon.htm (578 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Chinese folklore and astrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The snake is considered a wise reptile, symbolizing fertility in Chinese folklore.
		Chinese myths are replete with stories associating snakes with female deities who take on a human form and charm scholarly young men, then give birth to gifted children who become leaders in royal courts.
		One of the most famous Chinese folk stories is a version of “Lady White Snake,” a tale about love and deceit, gratitude and sacrifice, which also illustrates the romantic and human side of the snake’s character.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_02_02/lny02_snakestories.html (779 words)

	Chinese dragon - Chinese Dragon - Chinese Culture
		Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and Chinese artart, it is the embodiment of the concept of Yin Yangyang and associated with the weather and water as the bringer of rain.
		Chinese dragons are occasionally depicted with bat-like wings grown out of the front limbs, but most do not have wings.
		For example, one legend might tell the tale of a peasant born with a dragon birthmark who eventually overthrows the existing dynasty and founds a new one; another legend might tell of the prince in hiding from his enemies who is identified by his dragon birthmark.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chinese_dragon (1218 words)

	Ancient Chinese Mythology
		The writing of mythological tales began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220-420), when various writers, influenced by the alchemist's ideas and Taoist and Buddhist superstitions, were interested in inventing stories about gods and ghosts.
		The history of the long period before recorded history began is partly based on legend, which is interwoven with mythology.
		Chinese inventors of myths describe gods the way they describe man, or treat them as if they were human, and endow them with human nature.
	www.crystalinks.com /chinamythology.html (1797 words)

	China Customs FAQ
		Chinese are getting used to typical western greetings such as nihao (hello) or jiandaoni hengaoxing (very nice to meet you).
		Chinese commemorate what they call the four major rites and ceremonies of a lifetime: birth, coming of age, wedding and funeral.
		Traditional Chinese folk legends hold dragon, phoenix, tortoise and kylin (Chinese unicorn) to be the "four mascots".
	www.china-cruise.com /FAQ/Customs/customs.htm (837 words)

	Chinese Zodiac Chart, Info, and More
		The Chinese zodiac is a twelve-year cycle in which each year is associated with a specific animal.
		Based on the cycles of the moon, the Chinese Lunar Calendar is different than the western calendar in that the beginning of the year will fall somewhere between late January and early February (not January 1st).
		The Chinese adopted the Western calendar in 1911 after the fall of the Qing Dynasty but the lunar calendar is still used for Chinese New Year and other traditional Chinese festivals.
	www.chineseart.com /chinese-zodiac.htm (1197 words)

	Chinese Dragon: Oriental Dragons of Mythology, Legend, Folklore Chinese Dragons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The five-clawed dragon became the Chinese Imperial emblem (the four-clawed being the common dragon).
		There are many differences between the classical dragon and the Chinese dragon, these include the ability to fly even without wings, shape-shifting abilities, and of course the general benevolent behavior to the populace.
		Chinese dragons of myth could make themselves as large as the universe or as small as a silkworm.
	www.mythicalrealm.com /creatures/chinese_dragon.html (744 words)

	China Dazu Grottoes of Buddhist Art. ChineseArt.com
		The Yungang Grotto carvings belong to the speleologist art of the early period and the statuary was distinctly influenced by the art of Gandhara style and Greek.
		True to the Chinese religious tradition that a group of grottoes invariably contains a temple, the Shengshou Temple is an essential part of the Baodingshan grottoes and cliff carvings.
		The Greater Bay of Buddha also boasts a sleeping Buddha whose reclining body extends for some 90 feet or 31 meters, with part of his legs extending into the depth of the cliff He is not alone there, as he has the company of his ten major disciples, all carved in busts.
	www.chineseart.com /china-dazu.htm (932 words)

	Chinese Symbols for Chinese Dragon, Chinese Dragon Tattoo Designs, Pictures
		Dragon is a mystical animal in China and has significant influence on Chinese culture in China.
		Below are some different calligraphic symbols of dragon in traditional Chinese, which were written by the greatest Chinese calligraphists in Chinese history, like Wang Xizhi, for example.
		In Chinese folklore, the dragon has 9 sons which have different characters and take different responsibilities.
	www.chinesenames.org /chinese-dragon (275 words)

	84.04.03: Women in Traditional China and their Portrayal in Chinese Folktales
		Chinese folklore is peppered with such phrases as “girls are maggots in the rice,” “it is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.” Females were considered dispensable; it was the birth of a son that was cause for celebration.
		The popular notion that the Chinese maiden and her lover killed themselves because a marriage was forbidden did not represent the reality.
		Write an essay from the point of view of a Chinese mother in which she explains why it was necessary for her to allow her three-month-old infant daughter to be sold as a servant to a wealthy merchant and his family.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/4/84.04.03.x.html (3474 words)

	Jordan: Chinese Tales
		Chinese war stories tend to be set in the distant past and to glorify clever acts of deception over brute force or even bravery.
		Perhaps consonant with this, and in contrast to much European tradition, Chinese believe it is better to live to fight another day than to die to avoid compromising one's principles.
		However it was characterized by constant conflict with the restless and expansionist pastoral populations to the north, whose successful occupation of most of North China finally forced the court to move south for refuge.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/chin/hboperaplots.html (1874 words)

	Juwen Zhang - Willamette Stories
		Chinese folklorist and Willamette Chinese Professor Juwen Zhang recently published a translation of the earliest Chinese Book of Burial, which he says “textualizes and ritualizes” fengshui practice, the Chinese system that studies people’s relationships to the environment in which they live.
		As the endowed chair of the Luce Junior Professorship of Chinese Language and Culture, Zhang is working to bridge Chinese folklore research with the broader body of Chinese studies – something that has never been done before.
		Then, invoking a class he teaches on Chinese culture, he adds that studying rites of passage “can greatly contribute to the understanding of not only one culture, but the commonality and communication of all human beings.
	blog.willamette.edu /stories/archives/2005/10/juwen_zhang.php (827 words)

	MiaoFolklore
		Chinese Miao Minority textiles are full of fascinating imagery.
		Our young Chinese friend Jessy Zhang has kindly made notes on the tales she has heard related by Miao women--stories explaining their popular textile imagery.
		Based on the folk story, butterfly mother were changed from the Chinese sweet gum; she had been living in this tree.
	www.marlamallett.com /miaofolklore.htm (1581 words)

	LFPL - Kids Pages - Book Lists - Chinese Culture and Folklore
		Frightened into sleeplessness by the noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year, a young girl takes comfort in her grandmother's soothing story of a dragon, a mother's sorrow, and Buddha.
		This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
		A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan's army.
	www.lfpl.org /kidspages/booklists/china.htm (704 words)

	Article on Chinese 17th Century Ceramics
		Chinese porcelain pots, bowls and dishes, particularly those of the seventeenth century, are often decorated with scenes derived from Chinese stories and novels.
		The story of Wu Song comes from the Chinese novel Outlaws of the Marsh, which is about a peasants' revolt in the Northern Song dynasty times.
		Chinese porcelain pots, bowls and dishes, particularly those of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, are often decorated with scenes derived from Chinese folklore and novels.
	www.chinese-porcelain-art.com /article-chinese-ceramics.htm (959 words)

	Classical Chinese Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The earliest Chinese poetry begins with the Shih Ching, a collection of 305 poems of varying length, drawn from all ranks of Chinese society.
		Chinese culture, influenced by the anonymity of the Shih Ching, had a tendency to think of poems as something written by common humanity for the eyes of other humans.
		In Chinese, this idea is embodied in the terms fu, bi, and xing (pronounced "shing").
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/chinese_poetry.html (1015 words)

	Hungry Ghost Festival - Another traditional festival from China
		This festival falls on the 7th month of the Lunar New Year and is believed by the Chinese that during this month, the gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who then wander to seek food on Earth.
		Another belief among the Chinese is that the dead return to visit their living relatives during the 7th month and thus they prepare a sumptuous meal for the ‘hungry ghosts’.
		The Chinese feel that they have to satisfy the ghosts in order to get good fortune and luck in their lives.
	www.chinese-culture.net /html/hungry_ghost_festival.html (625 words)

	Read Chinese Language Articles to Help You Learn Chinese
		According to Chinese folklore, lanterns were said to be originally used at night to help mortals see the gods.
		Traditionally, a Chinese lantern consists of a frame made of flexible bamboo strips and a paper or gauze coat, usually painted with auspicious patterns.
		The country as a whole is run in a centralized fashion by two national bureaucracies: the government per se (the State Council with its various ministries) and the Chinese Communist Party, led by the Central Committee.
	www.transparent.com /newsletter/chinese/2000/nov_00.htm (749 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Jingwen Zhong, Professor of Folklore at Beijing Normal University, one of the founders of Chinese Folklore, the nation's leading authority on teaching of Folk Literature and Folk Arts, and also a poet, prose writer, and educator, passed away from the infirmities of age at 00:01 am, on January 10th, 2002, at Beijing Friendship Hospital.
		As one of the founders and pioneers of Chinese Folklore and Chinese Folk Literature and Arts, Professor Zhong worked hard in the field for 80 years, devoting himself to his beloved mission of folkloristic research and teaching.
		During his 80 years of teaching and research, Professor Zhong was a significant force in the development of Chinese Folklore, and played a major role in the creation of the discipline of Chinese Folk Literature and Arts.
	www.ogmios.org /1812.htm (1856 words)

	Infopedia -- Xing Bao's Homepage
		Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth.
		This work discovers myths like the Chang O, the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon, the Indian Churning of the Ocean of Milk, and explores archetypal themes such as the hero quest, sacrifice, and descent to the underworld.
		Within the logic of this reasoning and the metaphors through which it is expressed, assumptions about the nature of Chinese society are relevant to the practice and legitimating assumptions of a continuous Chinese civilization and of China as a unified nation of diversity combine to present the Chinese nation as a historical and cultural entity.
	www.albany.edu /~xb564931/SbiblCFM.html (1389 words)

	Chinese Mythology : Gods, Goddesses, Spirits, Deities from China
		Although hard-working and down-to-earth, the Chinese people have always had a streak of poetry in their souls.
		Most Chinese Gods and Goddesses are deified humans - which means they're as prone to mistakes as we are.
		This was a reasonable attempt to transcribe Chinese sounds into English - but, being created mostly for linguists and not the general public, has a number of peculiarities.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/chinese-mythology.php (555 words)

	Chinese Folklore Students
		Aware of the use of the scrolls, Juwen Zhang, Lecturer in Chinese, inquired in the fall of 2001 to see whether there were objects that might relate to his spring course, East Asian Studies 220: Chinese Folklore.
		Of the approximately 300 available objects, 62 objects of Chinese manufacture, or objects influenced by Chinese culture, were chosen from lists and unpacked in late fall by Collections student assistant and Asian Studies major, Emily Snow ‘04.
		Snow brings special expertise in Chinese and Japanese objects from her summer work in the Japanese Department at Christies in New York, and is aiding the Curator by helping the students learn how to examine objects, read the inscriptions, and interpret their use and significance through comparanda in print and web sources.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/mirabile/mirabile6/Chapin.html (673 words)

	Chinese folklore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese folktales have a long history, going back several thousand years.
		Periodically they have been revised, with emperors ordering the burning of old books and the printing of new ones more in fitting with the culture they were trying to impose.
		The main influences on Chinese folktales have been Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_folklore (98 words)

	CONCEPTS OF VALUE IN CHINESE FOLKLORE
		During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) the Chinese economy evolved gradually from being primarily feudal and agricultural into an emergent pattern of urban areas in which trade and small industry were commonplace.
		During the 14th and early 15th centuries, Chinese could not leave China, coastal shipping was forbidden, and the paper currency of the realm was inconvertible.
		The concept of Nirvana in Chinese Buddhism evolved gradually from being a "release through extinction of desire" to a notion of "perfection complete." The idea of perfection was more acceptable in Chinese thinking than the complete extinction of desire.
	les.man.ac.uk /ipa97/papers/baker13.html (6940 words)

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