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Then, a disease pattern is stated based on the theories of Chinese medicine. Amongst others, the acupuncture points BL-1 (jingming 睛明, "Bright Eyes") and ST-1 (chengqi 承泣, "Container of Tears") are said to have a special relationship to eye diseases. Chinese herbs such as Chrysanthemi flos (菊花, júhuā) have a special relationship ...
Wu Ming-yi (Chinese: 吳明益; born 20 June 1971) is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese writer and scholar.Wu is the Professor of Sinophone Literature at National Dong Hwa University and an environmental activist.
Yaoguai are popular staples of modern Chinese fiction, appearing in books, movies and comics. ... whose true form is a centipede and whose eyes radiant brilliant ...
Qianliyan typically appears as a green-skinned demon shielding his eyes from the sun's glare. [2] This was not his original position: The Southern Song statue mentioned above and another in the Nanhai Longwang Temple ( t 南海 龍王 廟 , s 南海 龙王 庙 , Nánhǎi Lóngwáng Miào ) in eastern Guangzhou in Guangdong give him three eyes ...
The Man with the Compound Eyes is a Taiwanese novel by Wu Ming-yi (Title 複眼人). The novel was first published in Taiwan in 2011 by Summer Festival Press. In 2013, it became Wu's first novel to be translated into English, being translated by Darryl Sterk, and was released simultaneously in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
You Are the Apple of My Eye (Chinese: 那些年，我們一起追的女孩, lit. ' Those Years, The Girl We Went After Together ') is a 2011 Taiwanese coming of age romance film. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Taiwanese author Giddens Ko, [3] who also made his directorial debut with the film. [4]
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").
Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) tomb guardian figure identified as a Fangxiangshi. The fangxiangshi (Chinese: 方相氏) was a Chinese ritual exorcist, the meaning of whose name is obscure but has been translated as "one who sees in all (four) directions", "he who scrutinizes for evil in many directions", and "one who orients unwanted spirits in the direction to which they belong".