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If you are interested, just check it out.
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http://www.planoballoonfest.org/
http://www.dfwdragonboatfestival.com/
Colorful is the world.
Wonderful is home.
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Picture of the Ultimate and the
Eight Trigrams (太极八卦图)
-<<Things Chinese And
Their Stories>>
The picture of the Ultimate consists of a black and a white fish-also called the yin and yang fish. The picture of the Eight Tiagrams is an octagon formed of eight combinations of three whole or broken lines.
According to legend, the picture was created by Fuxi, an ancient Chinese sage. It is written in the ancient book Zhou Yi (The Zhou Book of Changes) that 'Changes originate in the Ultimate; From the Ultimate issue the two spheres. From the two spheres issue the four elements, and from the four elements the eight trigrams. ' That was the basic theory of the Ultimate giving rise to the eight trigrams. By the Ultimate, the ancient meant the origin of all things and creatures. The philo
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Potted Landscapes (盆景
Penjing)
-<<Things Chinese And Their Stories>>
-<<Things Chinese And Their Stories>>
China is the homeland of the
The miniature landscape has become quite popular today and can be classified into two major categories: miniature rockeries and miniature trees.
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Cheongsam ( Qi Pao
)
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Chinese And Their Stories>>
The cheongsam is a female dress
with distinctive Chinese features and enjoys a growing popularity
in the international world of high fashion.
The name 'cheongsam', meaning
simply 'long dress', entered the English vocabulary from the
dialect of China's Guangdong Province
( Cantonese ). In other parts
of the country including Beijing, however, it is known as 'Qi
Pao',which has a history behind it.
When the early Manchu rulers
came to China proper, they organized certain people, mainly
Manchus, into ' banners ' (qi) and called them 'banner
people'
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