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This is a timeline of Chinese records and investigations in astronomy. 2137 BC - October 22, the Chinese book, the Book of Documents, records the earliest known solar eclipse. c. 2000 BC - Chinese determine that Jupiter needs 12 years to complete one revolution of its orbit.
An HSK (Level 6) Examination Score Report. The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK; Chinese: 汉语水平考试; pinyin: Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì), translated as the Chinese Proficiency Test, [1] is the People's Republic of China's standardized test of proficiency in the Standard Chinese language for non-native speakers.
The "3" and "X" are the same as the national "3+X" system, weighed at 750 points. The "Y" part consists of 18 questions, covering 9 subjects (Chinese, Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Politics, and Geography), from which students need to choose 6 questions to answer, weighed at 60 points. The total score is 810 points.
Chang'e 4 (/ tʃ ɑː ŋ ˈ ə /; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. ' Chang'e No. 4') is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA . It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon , the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019.
Chinese observers had recorded these for centuries, the first reference being a section of the "Official History of the Chin Dynasty" (Chin Shu) in 637, on the "Ten Haloes", giving technical terms for 26 solar halo phenomena.
In Chinese and Japanese Buddhist art, the halo has also been used since the earliest periods in depicting the image of Amitabha Buddha and others. Tibetan Buddhism uses haloes and aureoles of many types, drawing from both Indian and Chinese traditions, extensively in statues and Thangka paintings of Buddhist saints such as Milarepa and ...
Also visible are parts of the 22° halo (the arcs passing through each sun dog), a sun pillar (the vertical line), and the parhelic circle (the horizontal line). A sun dog (or sundog ) or mock sun , also called a parhelion [ 1 ] (plural parhelia ) in atmospheric science , is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to ...
The Lüshi Chunqiu (simplified Chinese: 吕氏春秋; traditional Chinese: 呂氏春秋; lit. 'Lü's Spring and Autumn'), also known in English as Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, [1] [2] is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of late pre-imperial Qin Chancellor Lü Buwei.