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"row" — objects which form lines (words 詞 / 词, etc.); occupations in a field (idiom, spoken language); 行 could also be pronounced as xíng, see below. 盒: hé hap6: hap6 objects in a small "box" or case (e.g. mooncakes, tapes) 戶 / 户: 户: hù wu6: wu6 households (户 is common in handwritten Traditional Chinese) — household ...
Gong'an was itself originally a metonym—an article of furniture involved in setting legal precedents came to stand for such precedents. For example, Di Gong'an (狄公案) is the original title of Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the famous Chinese detective novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.
gam 6 sau 2: qìn shǒu pressing hand \/ falling diagonal forearm, bent elbow, palm faces down presses down on the opponent's bridge or body to pin them down jam sao 沉手 (as simp.) cam 2 sau 2: chén shǒu sinking hand || pointing forward advancing arm wrist snaps forward and down to sink opponent's brige jip sao 接手 (as simp.) jip 3 sau ...
The oldest collection of Judge Bao stories is the Bao Longtu Baijia Gong'an, the Hundred Cases of Judge Bao, also included in the Ming dynasty Bao Gong An (Chinese:包 公 案). [3] The popularity of gong'an novels diminished in the early years of the Qing dynasty. [4] It was not until the latter years of the dynasty that the genre experienced ...
The Kaogongji, Kaogong Ji, [1] or Kao Gong Ji, [2] variously translated as The Record of Trades, Records of Examination of Craftsman, Book of Diverse Crafts, [citation needed] and The Artificers' Record, [3] is an ancient Chinese work on science and technology in China.
The historical evidence for Questions and Replies' authorship is unclear, but the available evidence largely refutes the tradition attributing it directly to Li Jing. Based on its earliest surviving bibliographical references, most modern historians consider Questions and Replies to be the product of either the late Tang (618–907 AD) or early Song (960–1279 AD) dynasties. [3]
The term Liù Zì Jué first appears in the book On Caring for the Health of the Mind and Prolonging the Life Span written by Tao Hongjing of the Southern and Northern dynasties (420–589). A leading figure of the Maoshan School of Taoism, Tao was renowned for his profound knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. "One has only one way for ...
Within the Chinese language, the same character 公 (gōng) is used as a noun in the terms for respected male relatives (e.g. 老公, lǎogōng, "husband", and 外公, wàigōng, "maternal grandfather") and as an adjective in the terms for various male animals (e.g. 公牛, gōngniú, "bull", and 公羊, gōngyáng, "ram" or "billy goat").