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120 relations: Adoption, Ancestral shrine, Ancient Chinese states, Anhui, Antoine Thomas, Benteng Chinese, Bigu (grain avoidance), Bo Yikao, Cantonese people, Catholic missions, Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Chinese folk religion, Chinese funeral rituals, Chinese kin, Chinese lineage associations, Chinese name, Chinese people in Madagascar, Chinese views on sin, Chongqing, Christianity in China, Chu (state), Confucianism, Confucius, Death (personification), Demographics of China, Ding (vessel), Duke Xi of Chen, E (state), East Asia, East Asian religions, Emperor of China, Empress Xiaojingcheng, Empress Xiaoyuanzhen, François Noël (missionary), Fujian, Funerary art, Fuzhou people, Gaozhou, Ge people (China), Guang (vessel), Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Gui (vessel), Guizhou, Hakka culture, Hakka people, Han Chinese, Hebei, Henan, ..., Hoklo people, Hongcheng Magic Liquid, Honor to Us All, Hubei, Hunan, Incense, Incense in China, Inner Mongolia, Jesuit China missions, Jia (vessel), Jiang Ji, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jiaomei, Jin (Chinese state), Jingxiang, Joss paper, Kangxi Emperor, Kōreisai, Liang Fa, List of Chinese inventions, Liu Zhong, Long Shan Tang Temple, Louis Fan (convert), Luo Yixiu, Mandarin Chinese profanity, Ming dynasty, Pa Then people, Postpartum confinement, Prayer, Prehistoric art, Qin Shi Huang, Qingming Festival, Radical 113, Religion in China, Religion in Inner Mongolia, Religion in Northeast China, Religion in South Korea, Religion in Taiwan, Religion in Thailand, Sanggar Agung, Sanyi teaching, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shandong people, Shangdi, Shanghainese people, Shantou, Shanxi, Shao Kang, Shi (personator), Shijie (Daoism), Sichuan, Sie Po Giok, Sinitic religion, Society of Jesus, Sui dynasty, Sycee, Taishanese people, Tanka people, Taoism in Singapore, Teochew people, Three Corpses, Women in ancient and imperial China, Xinye Village, Yunnan, Zhao Tuo, Zhejiang, Zheng (state), Zhou dynasty. Expand index (70 more) »
Adoption
Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents, and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents.
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Ancestral shrine
An ancestral shrine, hall or temple, also called lineage temple, is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese traditional religion.
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Ancient Chinese states
Ancient Chinese States were typified by variously sized city states and territories that existed in China prior to its unification by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BCE.
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Anhui
Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.
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Antoine Thomas
Antoine Thomas (25 January 1644 – 29 June 1709) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary, and astronomer in Qing China.
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Benteng Chinese
Benteng Chinese (Bahasa Indonesia: Cina Benteng or Tionghoa Benteng) are a Chinese-Indonesian community of 'Peranakan' or mixed descent, native to the historic Tangerang area in the modern-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
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Bigu (grain avoidance)
Bigu is a Daoist fasting technique associated with achieving xian "transcendence; immortality".
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Bo Yikao
Bo Yikao was the oldest son of King Wen of Zhou and the elder brother of King Wu, the founder of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.
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Cantonese people
The Cantonese people are Han Chinese people originating from or residing in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (together known as Liangguang), in southern mainland China.
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Catholic missions
Missionary work of the Catholic Church has often been undertaken outside the geographically defined parishes and dioceses by religious orders who have people and material resources to spare, and some of which specialized in missions.
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Chen Clan Ancestral Hall
The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall is an academic temple in Guangzhou, China, built by the 72 Chen clans for their juniors' accommodation and preparation for the imperial examinations in 1894 in Qing Dynasty.
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Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.
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Chinese funeral rituals
Chinese funeral rituals comprise a set of traditions broadly associated with Chinese folk religion, with different rites depending on the age of the deceased, the cause of death, and the deceased's marital and social statuses.
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Chinese kin
A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral home.
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Chinese lineage associations
Chinese lineage associations, also kinship or ancestral associations, are a type of social relationship institutions found in Han Chinese ethnic groups and the fundamental unit of Chinese ancestral religion.
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Chinese name
Chinese personal names are names used by those from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora overseas.
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Chinese people in Madagascar
Chinese people in Madagascar are a minority ethnic group of Madagascar and form Africa's third largest overseas Chinese population with a population in 2011 estimated at between 70,000-100,000.
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Chinese views on sin
The concept of sin, in the sense of violating a universal moral code, was unknown in Chinese philosophy and folk religion until around the second century CE, when Buddhism arrived from India and religious Daoism originated.
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Chongqing
Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.
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Christianity in China
Christianity in China appeared in the 7th century, during the Tang dynasty, but did not take root until it was reintroduced in the 16th century by Jesuit missionaries.
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Chu (state)
Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.
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Confucius
Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
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Death (personification)
Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper.
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Demographics of China
The demographics of China are identified by a large population with a relatively small youth division, which was partially a result of China's one-child policy, which is now modified to a two-child policy in 2015.
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Ding (vessel)
Ding (鼎) were prehistoric and ancient Chinese cauldrons, standing upon legs with a lid and two facing handles.
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Duke Xi of Chen
Chen Xiao (died 796), better known by his posthumous name Duke Xi, was a Chinese noble of the Zhou Kingdom.
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E (state)
The State of E (IPA:/ɤ̂/), whose Middle and Old Chinese name has been reconstructed as Ngak (IPA:/ŋˤak/), was an ancient Chinese state in the area of present-day Henan and Hubei in China from around the 12th century BCE until its overthrow in 863 BCE.
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East Asia
East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or ethno-cultural "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system." terms.
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East Asian religions
In the study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions form a subset of the Eastern religions.
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Emperor of China
The Emperor or Huangdi was the secular imperial title of the Chinese sovereign reigning between the founding of the Qin dynasty that unified China in 221 BC, until the abdication of Puyi in 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution and the establishment of the Republic of China, although it was later restored twice in two failed revolutions in 1916 and 1917.
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Empress Xiaojingcheng
Empress Xiaojingcheng (19 June 1812 – 21 August 1855) was an Imperial Noble Consort of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
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Empress Xiaoyuanzhen
Empress Xiaoyuanzhen was the first wife of the Taichang Emperor when he was crown prince.
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François Noël (missionary)
François Noël (18 August 1651– 17 September 1729) was a Flemish Jesuit poet, dramatist, and missionary to the Qing Empire.
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Fujian
Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.
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Funerary art
Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.
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Fuzhou people
The people of Fuzhou (Chinese: 福州人; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-nè̤ng), also known as Fuzhounese, Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Sei Ay people (十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong usually refers to people who originate from Fuzhou region and the Mindong region, adjacent Gutian County, Pingnan County, in Fujian province of China and in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan (Republic of China).
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Gaozhou
Gaozhou is a county-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province, China.
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Ge people (China)
The Ge is an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China.
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Guang (vessel)
A guang or gong is a particular shape used in Chinese art for vessels, originally made as Chinese ritual bronzes in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC), and sometimes later in Chinese porcelain.
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.
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Guangxi
Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.
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Gui (vessel)
A gui is a type of bowl-shaped ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel used to hold offerings of food, probably mainly grain, for ancestral tombs.
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Guizhou
Guizhou, formerly romanized as Kweichow, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country.
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Hakka culture
Hakka culture (t) refers to the culture created by Hakka people, a Han Chinese subgroup, across Asia.
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Hakka people
The Hakkas, sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese people whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese,.
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Hebei
Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.
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Henan
Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.
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Hoklo people
The Hoklo people are Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in Fujian, South China.
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Hongcheng Magic Liquid
The Hongcheng Magic Liquid incident was a scam in China where Wang Hongcheng, a bus driver from Harbin with no scientific education, claimed in 1983 that he could turn regular water into a fuel as flammable as petrol by simply dissolving a few drops of his liquid in it.
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Honor to Us All
"Honor to Us All" is a song written by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel for Walt Disney Pictures' 36th animated feature film Mulan (1998).
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Hubei
Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.
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Hunan
Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.
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Incense
Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned.
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Incense in China
Incense in China is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities including, religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, traditional medicine, and in daily life.
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region or Nei Mongol Autonomous Region (Ѳвѳр Монголын Ѳѳртѳѳ Засах Орон in Mongolian Cyrillic), is one of the autonomous regions of China, located in the north of the country.
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Jesuit China missions
The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world.
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Jia (vessel)
A jia is a ritual vessel type found in both pottery and bronze forms; it was used to hold libations of wine for the veneration of ancestors.
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Jiang Ji
Jiang Ji (died 18 May 249), courtesy name Zitong, was an official and military general of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Born in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Jiang Ji started his career as a low-level official in his native Yang Province before becoming a subordinate of Cao Cao, the warlord who controlled the central government towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. After the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, he served in the state of Cao Wei through the reigns of the first three emperors – Cao Pi, Cao Rui and Cao Fang – and held various appointments in the military before rising to Grand Commandant, one of the top positions in the central government. During his service in Wei, he was known for being candid in giving advice to the emperor on various issues, including consolidating power, halting labour-intensive construction projects, and officials' abuses of power. In February 249, he joined the regent Sima Yi in staging a successful ''coup d'état'' against his co-regent Cao Shuang, but died from illness a few months later.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".
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Jiaomei
Jiaomei is a Town in the portion of Longhai City north of the Jiulong River, in the municipal region of Zhangzhou, Fujian.
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Jin (Chinese state)
Jin (Old Chinese: *), originally known as Tang (唐), was a major state during the middle part of the Zhou dynasty, based near the centre of what was then China, on the lands attributed to the legendary Xia dynasty: the southern part of modern Shanxi.
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Jingxiang
Jìngxiāng (敬香 "offering incense with respect"), shàngxiāng (上香 "offering incense"), bàishén (拜神 "worshipping gods"), is a ritual of offering incense accompanied by tea and or fruits in Chinese traditional religion.
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Joss paper
Joss paper (or, also known as ghost money) are sheets of paper or papercrafts made into burnt offerings common in Chinese ancestral worship such as the veneration of the deceased family members and relatives on holidays and special occasions.
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Kangxi Emperor
The Kangxi Emperor (康熙; 4 May 165420 December 1722), personal name Xuanye, was the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Shanhai Pass near Beijing, and the second Qing emperor to rule over that part of China, from 1661 to 1722.
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Kōreisai
, or and Kōreisai, are days of worship in Japan that began in 1878 to pay respects to the past emperors and imperial family members.
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Liang Fa
Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist.
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List of Chinese inventions
China has been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions.
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Liu Zhong
Liu Xi (died 193), better known by his courtesy name Liu Zhong, was an elder brother of Emperor Gaozu, founder of China's Han Dynasty.
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Long Shan Tang Temple
Long Shan Tang Temple is a Hokkien Chinese clan temple (also called kongsi) located on Anawrahta Road in Latha Township, part of Yangon's Chinatown.
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Louis Fan (convert)
Louis Fan (June 13, 1682. – February 28, 1753.), born Fan Shouyi and also known as Luigi Fan, was the first known Chinese person to travel to Europe, return, and write an account of his travels.
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Luo Yixiu
Luo Yixiu (20 October 1889 – 11 February 1910), a Han Chinese woman, was the first wife of the later Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong, to whom she was married from 1908 until her death.
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Mandarin Chinese profanity
Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Pa Then people
The Pa Then (or Pá Hưng; Vietnamese: người Pà Thẻn) are an ethnic group of Vietnam.
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Postpartum confinement
Postpartum confinement refers to a system for recovery following childbirth.
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Prayer
Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.
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Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang (18 February 25910 September 210) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China.
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Qingming Festival
The Qingming or Ching Ming festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day or Ancestors' Day), is a traditional Chinese festival.
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Radical 113
Radical 113 (Unicode U+793A, compound form at U+793B, pinyin shì meaning "ancestor, veneration") is number 113 out of 214 Kangxi radicals.
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Religion in China
China has long been a cradle and host to a variety of the most enduring religio-philosophical traditions of the world.
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Religion in Inner Mongolia
Religion in Inner Mongolia is characterised by the diverse traditions of Mongolian-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, the Chinese traditional religion including the traditional Chinese ancestral religion, Taoism, Confucianism and folk religious sects, and the Mongolian native religion.
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Religion in Northeast China
The predominant religions in Northeast China (including the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, historically also known as Manchuria) are Chinese folk religions led by local shamans.
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Religion in South Korea
Religion in South Korea is characterised by the fact that a majority of South Koreans (56.1% as of the 2015 national census) have no formal affiliation with a religion.
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Religion in Taiwan
Religion in Taiwan is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, predominantly those pertaining to Chinese culture.
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Religion in Thailand
Religion in Thailand is varied.
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Sanggar Agung
Sanggar Agung Temple or Hong San Tang is a Chinese temple in Surabaya dedicated to Chinese deities and other Asian religious icons.
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Sanyi teaching
The Harmonious Church of the Three-in-One (三一教协会), or Sanyiism (三一教) and Xiaism (夏教), is a Chinese folk religious sect of Confucian character founded in the 16th century by Lin Zhao'en, in Putian.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.
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Shandong
Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.
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Shandong people
The people of Shandong province or Shandong people refers to those who are native to Shandong province, the majority (99%) of whom are Han Chinese.
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Shangdi
Shangdi, also written simply, "Emperor", is the Chinese term for "Supreme Deity" or "Highest Deity" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.
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Shanghainese people
The Shanghainese people (Chinese: 上海人, Shanghainese: Zaanhaening,; p Shànghǎirén) are the natives of the City of Shanghai.
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Shantou
Shantou, formerly romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an administrative area of.
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Shanxi
Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.
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Shao Kang
Shao Kang (his surname was Sì 姒) was the sixth king of the Xia dynasty of ancient China.
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Shi (personator)
The shi was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices.
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Shijie (Daoism)
Shijie, which has numerous translations such as liberation from the corpse and release by means of a corpse, is an esoteric Daoist technique for an adept to transform into a xian ("transcendent; immortal"), typically using some bureaucratic ruse to evade the netherworld administrative system of life and death registration.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Sie Po Giok
Tjerita Sie Po Giok, atawa Peroentoengannja Satoe Anak Piatoe (better known by the short title Sie Po Giok) is a 1911 children's novel from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) written by Tio Ie Soei in vernacular Malay.
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Sinitic religion
Sinitic religion or Siniticism is the religion of the Chinese civilisation.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Sui dynasty
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance.
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Sycee
A sycee (.. from Cantonese 細絲, sai-sì,. "fine silk").
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Taishanese people
Sze Yap Cantonese (Chinese: 四邑廣東人; Sze Yap: Hlei Yip Gong Ong Ngin; Cantonese: Sei Yap Gwong Dong Yan; Mandarin: Sìyì guǎngdōng rén) are a Han Chinese group coming from a region in Guangdong Province in China called Sze Yap (四邑), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, and Enping.
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Tanka people
The Tankas or boat people are an ethnic subgroup in Southern China who have traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Zhejiang, as well as Hong Kong, and Macau.
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Taoism in Singapore
Taoism in Singapore is the religion of 10.9% of the entire population, growing from 8% ten years earlier.
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Teochew people
The Teochew people (also known as Tiê-Chiu in romanized Teochew, Chaozhou in Mandarin, and Chiuchow in Cantonese) are a Han Chinese native to the historical Chaozhou prefecture (now the Chaoshan region) of eastern Guangdong province.
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Three Corpses
The sanshi 三尸 "Three Corpses" or sanchong 三蟲 "Three Worms" are a Daoist physiological belief that demonic creatures live inside the human body, and they seek to hasten the death of their host.
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Women in ancient and imperial China
The study of women's history in the context of imperial China has been pursued since at least the late 1990s.
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Xinye Village
Xinye is a historic Chinese village in Daciyan Town (大慈岩镇), Jiande City, Zhejiang Province.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.
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Zhao Tuo
Zhao Tuo, known in Vietnamese contexts as Triệu Đà, was a Qin dynasty Chinese general who participated in the conquest of the Baiyue peoples of Guangdong, Guangxi and Northern Vietnam.
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Zhejiang
, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.
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Zheng (state)
Zheng (Old Chinese: *) was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BCE) located in the centre of ancient China in modern-day Henan Province on the North China Plain about east of the royal capital at Luoyang.
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Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty or the Zhou Kingdom was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestor_veneration_in_China
