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Among numerous influential women in ancient China, Ban Zhao stands out as the first female historian

LÜ DONGBIN (Chinese: 呂洞賓; born 796) was a Tang Dynasty Chinese scholar and poet who has been elevated to the status of an immortal in the Chinese cultural sphere, worshipped especially by the Taoists. Lü is one of the most widely known of the group of deities known as the Eight Immortals and considered by some to be the de facto leader. (The formal leader is more likely said to be Zhongli Quan or sometimes Iron-Crutch Li.)

We have heard a lot about modern inventions and technology. Little did anyone tell us that many of the modern technologies are either modification of existing technology or technology which was invented in ancient time. Ancient inventions and inventors did not get the fame because they never did things for their benefit. Inventions they did would always be a solution to some problems. These solutions come out with mere hard work, intelligence and creativity. And there was no patenting as…

Chinese four arts: qin, qi (go), shu (calligraphy), hua (painting) at China Online Museum.

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Peasant women in the Xiaojiang River valley ofHunan Province have used Nushu 'women s script' to write their regional dialect since the Song Dynasty or earlier. A description of the phonological features ofthe dialect isfollowed by analysis ofthe structural characteristics ofthe script, which in its current form is a systematic variant of square Chinese characters. Unlike the latter, however, Nushu s thousand-plus characters are syllabic. Its inclusion of characters and character…

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Follow @PerfectCostume1 Ming Dynasty also brought many changes to its clothing as many dynasties do. They implemented metal buttons and the collar changed from the symmetrical type of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to the main circular type. Compared with the costume of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the proportion of the upper outer garment to lower skirt in the Ming Dynasty was significantly inverted. Since the upper outer garment was shorter and the lower garment was longer, the jacket…

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