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Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up ...
- Wu Chinese-speaking people
The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people [citation...
- Wu (shaman)
Wu (Chinese: 巫; pinyin: wū; Wade–Giles: wu) is a Chinese...
- Wu Chinese-speaking people
The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people [citation needed] (simplified Chinese: 吴越人; traditional Chinese: 吳越人; pinyin: Wúyuè rén, Shanghainese: [ɦuɦyɪʔ ɲɪɲ]), Jiang-Zhe people (江浙民系) or San Kiang (三江), are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese.
Wu is a group of Chinese dialects spoken in the area around Shanghai in southern China. Speakers. Wu dialects have been spoken by some important people such as Chiang Kai-shek. However, Wu speakers are similar to speakers of Spanish and French because they can not always understand each other.
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The glyph ancestral to modern 巫 is first recorded in bronze script, where it could refer to shamans or sorcerers of either sex. Modern Mandarin wu (Cantonese mouh) continues a Middle Chinese mju or mjo. The Old Chinese reconstruction is uncertain, given as *mywo or as *myag,[a] the presence of a final velar -g or -ɣin Old Chinese being uncertain. B...
The oldest written records of wuare Shang dynasty oracle inscriptions and Zhou dynasty classical texts. Boileau notes the disparity of these sources.
Aspects of Chinese folk religion are sometimes associated with "shamanism". De Groot provided descriptions and pictures of hereditary shamans in Fujian, called saigong (pinyin shigong) 師公. Paper analyzed tongji mediumistic activities in the Taiwanese village of Bao'an 保安. Shamanistic practices of Tungusic peoples are also found in China. Most notab...
The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Translated by Birrell, Anne (illustrated ed.). Penguin. 2000. ISBN 9780140447194.Boileau, Gilles (2002). "Wu and Shaman". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 65 (2): 350–378. doi:10.1017/S0041977X02000149. S2CID 27656590.Carr, Michael (1992). "Shamanic Heng 恆 'Constancy'". Review of Liberal Arts 人文研究. 83: 93–159. hdl:10252/1754.Chang, K.C. (1983). Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674048089.巫, Unihan DatabaseYijing Prediction and Wu (Shamanism), Zhongxian WuWu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up ...
Wu is one of the major varities of Chinese and is spoken by about 90 million people in China in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui and Fujian provinces, and in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Aug 16, 2017 · Wu Chinese (吴语 / 吳語) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About 80 million people in the world speak the Wu language. The Wu language divides into Northern Wu and Southern Wu dialects.
