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There are also special symbols in Chinese arts, such as the qilin, and the Chinese dragon. [1] According to Chinese beliefs, being surrounding by objects which are decorated with such auspicious symbols and motifs was and continues to be believed to increase the likelihood that those wishes would be fulfilled even in present-day. [2]
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The Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), Malaysia's national flower. The national flower of Malaysia is the bunga raya (Chinese hibiscus, ... Pictures Notes
Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis is a bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree growing 2.5–5 m (8–16 ft) tall and 1.5–3 m (5–10 ft) wide. The plant has a branched taproot.Its stem is aerial, erect, green, cylindrical, and branched.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Chinese: 朱槿), a flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus; Rosa chinensis (Chinese: 月季), a flowering plant of the genus Rosa; China Rose, 1925 operetta by A. Baldwin Sloane, Harry L. Cort, and George E. Stoddard
Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.
The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]
Native Chinese religions do not usually use cult images of deities, or even represent them, and large religious sculpture is nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century, and initially using Greco-Buddhist models arriving via the Silk Road. Buddhism is also the context of all large portrait sculpture; in total contrast to ...