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  2. Chinese jump rope - Wikipedia

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    Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...

  3. Traditional games in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, the team to play first is usually decided by jack en poy. The rules of the game is simple and heavily varies according to the agreement of the participants. Players must draw a line as parameters for the game. The slippers will be used as the primary object.

  4. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese visual design elements: their applicability in contemporary Chinese design (Master of Science in Design thesis). Arizona State University. Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2012). Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Boston, US: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0689-5. OCLC 893707208. Williams, Charles (2006).

  5. Chinese art - Wikipedia

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    Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese art when it is based on or draws on Chinese culture , heritage, and history.

  6. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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    Chinese painting and calligraphy distinguish themselves from other cultures' arts by emphasis on motion and change with dynamic life. [4] The practice is traditionally first learned by rote, in which the master shows the "right way" to draw items. The apprentice must copy these items strictly and continuously until the movements become instinctive.

  7. Garment collars in hanfu - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 103 When used by the ancient Chinese literati, the concept of pifa zuoren became a phrase, which held the symbolic of foreign people who were living a barbarous and civilized lifestyle; this concept also became a way to emphasize the customs differences between the Han people and other ethnic minorities and draw the line to distinguish ...

  8. Freehand brush work - Wikipedia

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    Freehand brush work is a genre of Chinese traditional painting which includes poem, calligraphy, painting and seal. In Chinese called Hsieh yi (traditional Chinese: 寫意; simplified Chinese: 写意; pinyin: Xiěyì), which literally means "writing ideas". [1] It was formed in a long period of artistic activities and promoted by the literati.

  9. Chinese folk art - Wikipedia

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    Chinese knotting (中國結) is a decorative handicraft art that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song dynasty [1] (AD 960–1279) in China. It was later popularized in the Ming. The art is also referred to as Chinese traditional decorative knots. [2] One of the more traditional art forms, it creates decorative knot patterns.