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Su Nü Jing or Su Nü Ching - Classic of the White Madam (素女經), is a Chinese sexology book written before the Han dynasty. It belongs to the Chinese classics and presents the Taoist sexual practices. [1] [2] According to this religious tradition, the book is said to have been written by the Goddess Sunü in the Huang Di era.
The story as told is that there were three goddesses in the era of Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor), namely Sunü (Chinese: 素女, "the Simple Woman"), Xuannü (Chinese: 玄女, "the Mysterious Woman"), and Cainü (Chinese: 彩女, "the Colorful Woman"); the three sisters taught the Huangdi Taoist sexual practices, the theory of sex, and ...
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It tells the story of Hou Yi, a legendary archer who was sent by the Emperor to reform the people of Xia. He was a skilled archer and hunter, and he used his skills to rid the world of many monsters and pests. However, he also became arrogant and tyrannical, and he eventually killed Hebo, the god of Yellow River and took his wife Luoshen as his ...
Title page of the novel Ping Shan Leng Yan Title page of the novel Haoqiu zhuan. Caizi jiaren (Chinese: 才子佳人; pinyin: cáizǐ jiārén; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai-tzu chia-jen; lit. 'scholar–beauty' [1] [2] and "scholar and beauty") [a] is a genre of Chinese fiction typically involving a romance between a young scholar and a beautiful girl.
Its name reflects this utilization: Han is the Chinese word for Chinese and kitab means book in Arabic. [1] [2] They were written in the early 18th century during the Qing dynasty by various Chinese Muslim authors. The Han Kitab were widely read and approved of by later Chinese Muslims such as Ma Qixi, Ma Fuxiang, and Hu Songshan. [3] [4] [5]
The more important Erya-type books of the subsequent period are the 1579 Tongya (通雅, Analogous to Erya) compiled by Fang Yizhi (方以智), 1587 Pianya (駢雅, A Book of Two-Syllable Words) by Zhu Mouwei (朱謀㙔), c. 1745 Bieya (別雅, Another Erya) by Wu Yujin (吴玉搢), and 1864 Dieya (疊雅, A Book of Double-Syllable Words) by ...
Kara became the more popular version of the name for American girls by 1967. Other media depictions of Supergirl have continued to draw attention to the name. [ 1 ] In Norse mythology , Kára was a valkyrie ; in the Scandinavian languages , the name Kára either means "the wild, stormy one" (based on Old Norse afkárr , meaning "wild") or "curl ...