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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Bigfoot: Chinese Wildman & Zhou Guoxing
The yeh-ren is said to be a biped (upright walking creature) generally described at six-feet tall, with considerable pelage of orange-pinkish tinge to red-brown in color.
Zhou Guoxing is a well-known Chinese paleoanthropologist and archaeologist; educated at Fudan University, in Shanghai.
In 1962, he was appointed to the scientific staff of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.
www.bigfootencounters.com /articles/zhou.htm   (253 words)

  
 Bigfoot / Yeren Reports from China
Chinese scientists are steadily gathering evidence and reason to believe that an ape species which was thought to be extinct may still exist in certain mountain ranges in Asia.
Chinese scientists are on the trail of the legendary ape-like beast after a hunter reported seeing a huge fast-moving creature covered in long, red hair in Hubei province's Shennongjia Nature Reserve two months ago, the China Daily said.
Chinese Scientists are beginning a yearlong expedition to investigate reports of a 7-foot "Bigfoot" wandering the wilderness.
www.bfro.net /GDB/ASIA/CHINA/as_ch001.htm   (2206 words)

  
 Wildman -=SKYGAZE=- Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
Early literary references to what seems to be the same creature also call it a "hill ghost," "mountain monster," "man bear," or "monkeylike, but not a monkey." A seventeenth-century account from Hubei province notes, "In the remote mountains of Fangxian County, there are rock caves, in which live hairy men as tall as three meters.
Though in the late 1950s some Chinese scientists took an active interest in the yeti, the "abominable snowman" of the Himalayas, China's native hairy giants attracted neither notice nor respect.
By the time representatives of the Chinese Academy of Sciences came to the region, the body was no longer available, and the scientists concluded that the animal had been nothing more than a gibbon.
www.skygaze.com /content/strange/Wildman.shtml   (1293 words)

  
 The Yeren
Supposedly, villagers had killed a Wildman in the Zhejiang province in 1957, and a biology teacher had removed and preserved all four of its extremities.
The Chinese incline towards the view that their creature is related to Gigantopithecus, a giant extinct primate believed to have lived in China three hundred thousand years ago.
The first scientific observation of a Chinese Yeti was made in I940 by Wang Zelin, a biologist graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Chicago.
cryptozoo.monstrous.com /the_yeren.htm   (1591 words)

  
 05-25-2004 - Wildman Flew Missions In China
Wildman was stationed with the 331st Troop Carrying Group at Myitkynia, Burma, becoming an official Hump pilot.
Wildman was nearing the end of a two-year enlistment.
Wildman was discharged in January 1943, expecting to get a job with the airlines, just like thousands of other military pilots.
www.timeswrsw.com /N0525040.HTM   (1810 words)

  
 BFRO Media Article 220
A team of 100 Chinese researchers headed for the mountain forests of central Hubei Province in June in an effort to solve the 9,000-year-old mystery of the half-man, half-ape whom numerous peasants in the area claimed to have seen.
Nicknamed "Fei Fei" by Chinese scientists, the creature is cousin to North America's bigfoot and the legendary abominable snowman of the Himalayas.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Chinese scientists searched for the abominable snowman in the Himalayas and for the "Wildman" in the primitive forests of the Xishuangbanna region of southern Yunnan Province.
www.bfro.net /GDB/show_article.asp?id=220   (403 words)

  
 The Status of Wildman Research in China
Scientific interest in Wildman in modern China began in the late 1950s, and intensified in the 1970s with fieldwork in northwest Hubei and southern Shanxi provinces sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chinese scientific investigations of Wildman on a regular basis started with the founding of new China, organized by state-owned scientific institutions, funded by the government, and staffed by the scientific departments concerned.
It was said that the Wildman was 1.2 to 1.3 meters in height, that it was covered with hair, that it walked upright, and that its hands, ears, breasts, and external genitalia were similar to those of a female human.
www.rfthomas.clara.net /papers/zhou.html   (3526 words)

  
 On The Trail Of China's Bigfoot
Since the 1970s, government sponsored expeditions have managed to detail scores of wildman sightings among local residents, although the wildman himself continues to shy away from both outsiders and cameras, complicating independent verification.
One wildman was eventually killed and dismembered by the soldiers, the peasant said, but records of the incident were lost in the chaos of the civil war.
Perhaps the wildman is a distant hominid cousin of homo sapiens from some lost prehistoric era who has already survived tough lessons.
www.rense.com /general27/onthetrailofchinasbigfoot.htm   (500 words)

  
 LA Weekly - Santa is a Wildman!
(In later depictions of the wildman, his fur was often replaced by leaves.) Sometimes horned, with a prominent sex organ or wielding a club, he was considered frenzied and insane, and was the personification of lust and debauchery.
The habitat of the wildman was the northern woods where he lived in a cave or den.
Jultomten is akin to the King of the Forest­type wildman: stout, bearded, dressed in furs.
www.laweekly.com /ink/03/05/features-vallance.php   (2110 words)

  
 The Cryptid Zoo: Wildmen (America and Elsewhere)
The wildman of Pakistan is the barmanu, reported from the Shishi Kuh Valley.
The Mongolian wildman is known as the alma.
When witnesses see a wildman, often their first thought is that they are looking at a human who for some reason has fur growing over much of the body.
www.newanimal.org /wildmen.htm   (975 words)

  
 The Chinese Yeti
The article was based on one in the Chinese journal Huashi ('Fossils'), which reported that as long ago as 1962 soldiers of the Chinese army operating in an area vaguely described as 'the foothills of the Himalayas' had killed and eaten a 'Yeti-like creature'.
The remote and mystical Shennongjia mountains abound in legends; it seems that even Shennong, god-king of fable and father of husbandry and farming, was deterred by their altitude and had to build a scaffolding when he came here to collect medicinal herbs.
He was about seven feet tall [a Chinese foot is 73 cm — not 30.5 cm as in our system] with shoulders wider than a man's, a sloping forehead, deep-set eyes, and bulbous nose with slightly upturned nostrils.
home.clara.net /rfthomas/papers/chinyeti.html   (3798 words)

  
 BCSCC Website
Although it is readily apparent that there are two types of wildman only, local nicknames have meant that there are sometimes as many as five different types to be considered, but from local descriptions we can eliminate at least through of the types as known apes and monkeys.
During their visit to Shennongjia and Guangxi province they arrived at the conclusion that there was a better than 50% chance that there was some sort of wildman of indeterminate origin lurking on the peripheries of the Chinese woodlands.
Some hair specimens have been gathered and sent for analysis with the aid of high-tech equipment that measures the proportion of zinc to iron and it was discovered that these hair fibres contained 50 times that found in its human equivalent and seven times that found in primates.
www.bcscc.ca /yiren.htm   (1282 words)

  
 Bigfoot discovered out picking violets
The hair clumps have been given to Frank Pourier, chairman of the anthropology department at Ohio State University, who is using a DNA test developed by the FBI for analysis of hair strands that lack the roots normally needed for identiflcation.
On October 27, 1994, the Chinese government set up a new body, the Committee for the Search of Strange and Rare Creatures, one of whose aims was to investigate wildman reports.
The largest cast of a supposed wildman footprint is 16inches long, leading to the assumption that the creatures could weigh as much as 6601bs (47 stone) add stand more than 7ft tall.
home.clara.net /rfthomas/news/violets.html   (684 words)

  
 Mysterious Creatures
The Wildman has been a part of the folklore of southern and central China for centuries, sighted primarily in the heavily forested areas of these regions.
Frequently referred to as the Yeren (a Chinese word meaning "wildman"), the creature has been described as about six and a half feet tall with a thick coat of brown or red hair.
The purported Wildman attempted to flee by climbing up an embankment, but slipped and fell onto the road in front of the car, crouching on all fours in the glare of the headlights.
www.angelfire.com /ak/darksecret/zoo.html   (2393 words)

  
 A New Yeren Investigation In China
This was an international expedition composed of about ten Chinese, three scientists from Taiwan, a five-member Japanese TV crew, and myself, an American anthropologist.
In terms of time and effort expended, about one-third was spent walking along narrow (12 inch/30-cm) terrace walls around the rice fields, one-third climbing steep steps from one terrace up to another, and one-third walking along typical mountain trails of various inclinations.
On all difficult places, a young Chinese man pulled me by one hand from in front, and another firmly pushed me from behind; given my size and age (63 years), there was no other way I could have kept up with the group.
www.rfthomas.clara.net /papers/yeren.html   (2581 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Yeren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
{{sources}}The Yeren ({{zh-cplc=野人p=yěrénl=wild person}}), variously referred to as the Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman, Wildman of Shennongjia, Man-Monkey, or Ren Xiong ("man bear"), is said to be an as yet undiscovered hominid residing in the mountainous and forested regions of China's remote Hubei province.
Witnesses typically report the creatures to be covered in reddish-brown hair.
It has been connected with ancient Chinese legends of magical forest ogres and man-like bears.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Yeren   (333 words)

  
 Chinese herbs, anyone? - MotheringDotCommune Forums
I was on chinese herbs for about 6 months and the TCM told me that i should TCT again.
I am interested in knowing who the Chineses doctor is in Chicago who gave you the herbs; I have a sick friend.
I know someone who saw an acupuncturist who did needle treatments and Chinese herbs (in packaged form that she used to make herb tea).
www.mothering.com /discussions/showthread.php?t=270586   (740 words)

  
 Big Trouble in Little China 7 Inch Line :: Action-Figure :: Toy, Collectibles and Action Figure News and Reviews from ...
Throughout ancient Chinese lore, one will find reference to all kinds of unbelievable talesfilled with magic and monstrosity.
The Chinese Wildman is such a beast: disgusting and distrubing.
Without the quick wits of Jack, Chinese Wildman could have been the end of Jack and all of his friends.
www.action-figure.com /Sections-article666-p1.html   (646 words)

  
 Madeleine Interview
You can combine it with other herbs, some of the Chinese herbs which we’ll talk about later, like donquai, which I think a lot of people are familiar with.
And holistic medicine, as everyone knows, is the integration of mind, body and spirit, and in terms of herbal medicine you wouldn’t treat just symptoms, you would also treat the whole person and try to rebalance the body.
To begin with, one good book is called Chinese Tonic Herbs, by Ron Teagarden, and that would explain some of the major herbs that are in many of the herbal formulas that you find in Chinatown.
www.wildmanstevebrill.com /Clippings.folder/ChineseHerbalMedicine.html   (4639 words)

  
 1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 56   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Conversely, contact with vernacular Chinese texts triggers a reexamination of the Japanese language, while a new reading of a Chinese canonical work opens the door to a promotion of the value of human emotionality.
A strong underlying theme in early seventeenth-century Japanese art is the employment of Chinese imagery and symbolism.
When we examine original Chinese porcelain motifs, both made for the Chinese domestic market, and those tailored for the Japanese market, and conjoin them with Japanese 'Chinese-style' counterparts, we discover that the differences reveal a conscious aesthetic transformation.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/japan/j56.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Chinese Bigfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese scientists are setting off on a year long expedition to investigate reports of a 7-foot "Bigfoot'' wandering the wilderness.
The 30-member team will set off next month for the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in central China, where for centuries residents have reportedsightings of a creature that is half man and half ape, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
Anthropologists, biologists and geneticists from the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing University and Beijing Normal University will be team members, the report said.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz050/HomePage.cbf.html   (173 words)

  
 Bigfoot: The Chinese Wildman or Yeti by Myra Shackley...
Bigfoot: The Chinese Wildman or Yeti by Myra Shackley...
The article spoke of the 'meat from a snowman' which the soldiers had killed in a remote part of Yunan province.
Apparently ancient Chinese literary works and folk legends include references to big hairy man-like creatures that live in the vast forests of the Quinling-Bashan-Shennongj in the mountain region of central China (northwest Hubei province).
www.bigfootencounters.com /creatures/yeti.htm   (3761 words)

  
 HealthScout - Alcohol a Strong Risk Factor for Hypertension in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
FRIDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- In a study that suggests ethnic differences in susceptibility to hypertension, researchers report that Chinese men who consume more than 30 alcoholic drinks a week are twice as likely to have high blood pressure as Chinese men who don't drink alcohol.
Limiting alcohol intake has to be a part of efforts to prevent and manage high blood pressure in China," Wildman said.
She added that by cutting back by just one drink per day, many at-risk Chinese men could significantly reduce their blood pressure.
www.heartinfo.org /printerFriendly.asp?id=524967   (329 words)

  
 Recent Bigfoot Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The hair clumps have been given to Frank Pourier, chairman of the anthropology department at Ohio State University, who is using a DNA test developed by the FBI for analysis of hair strands that lack the roots normally needed for identification.
The largest cast of a supposed wildman footprint is 16 inches long, leading to the assumption that the creatures could weigh as much as 660lbs (47 stone) and stand more than 7ft tall.
On July 11, the news agency Xinhua announced that most of the expedition members had returned to Beijing empty-handed, but stated: "There are clues that the mysterious animal is still roaming in the forest.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz050/HomePage.recentbf.html   (703 words)

  
 Kristi Reynolds
Wildman RP, Gu D, Reynolds K, Duan X, He J. Appropriate body mass index and waist circumference cut-points for categorization of overweight and central obesity among Chinese adults.
Wildman RP, Gu D, Reynolds K, Duan X, Wu X, He J. Waist circumference and body mass index are independent predictors of cardiovascular risk among Chinese adults.
Menke A, Muntner P, Wildman RP, Reynolds K, Fonseca V, He J. The metabolic syndrome is associated with a higher prevalence of PAD: results from NHANES 1999- 2000.
www.kristireynolds.com   (4448 words)

  
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Each has a philosophy at its core, an aspect of Chinese Ecosmology and metaphysics that forms its rationale: the alternation of yin and yang, the five element.
The story goes that the first master, Lee Tung Feng, acquired the style when he discovered a cave in the Hua Shan mountains which contained a skeleton and several manuscripts done in Chen's hand.
The Chinese are fond of such origin tales.
www.liuhopafa.com /art5.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Yeren - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Nicknamed Chinese wildman, the Wildman has been a part of the folklore of southern and central China for centuries.
Every time theirs a sighting of a hairy biped, a name is created for it traced to their language/culture/tradition.
And it so happens that their was a Chinese Bigfoot sighting and it was titled "Yeren".
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=35585   (1936 words)

  
 Yeti - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A large ape-like biped (that some suggest could be Gigantopithecus fli)
Human-sized bipedal apes (the Alma and the Chinese wildman)
The term is also often used to refer to reported ape-like creatures that fits any of these descriptions, e.g.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yeti   (1486 words)

  
 Gwion Thomas - Baritone (Reviews)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
"Gwion Thomas' Wildman powers across the stage, slithering and sliding, howling and gibbering with terrifying ferocity generating a surging intensity."
"At the centre of the action is the Wildman himself, arrestingly portrayed in voice and body by Gwion Thomas, for whom the part was written, calling on extremes of compass and expression comparable with those demanded by Peter Maxwell Davies in his Eight Songs for a Mad King."
"As Wildman, Thomas is extraordinary in his agile writhings -inimitable in future productions."
www.karen-durant.co.uk /Reviews/Thomas.html   (1236 words)

  
 « TOP SECRET » Yeti
Alma and Yeti - Investigates the origins and cites resources for the creature called Alma by the Chinese and Russians and Yeti by the Nepalese and Tibetans.
Analysis of the extinct ape addresses the appearance, sexual dimorphism, geographical distribution, diet, locomotion, and myths such as Yeti.
Int'l Society of Cryptozoology lists cryptids or unexpected animals, with the Chinese Wildman as a possible descendant of the Gigantopithecus.
www.zhelem.com /topsecret/yeti2.htm   (457 words)

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