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Different versions of this dhāraṇī, of varying length, exist; the shorter version, as transliterated into Chinese characters by Indian monk Bhagavaddharma in the 7th century, enjoys a high degree of popularity in East Asian Mahayana Buddhism, especially in Chinese Buddhism, comparable to that of the six-syllable mantra Oṃ maṇi padme ...
A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy. Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family ...
Chinese. Look up Chinese in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinese may refer to: Something related to China. Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity. Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China. Zhonghua minzu, the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation. List of ethnic ...
For the international version of this game, see Plants vs. Zombies 2. The Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese name: 植物大战僵尸2; zhíwù dàzhàn jiāngshī 2) is a game in the Plants vs. Zombies series. Unlike the international version, the player, Crazy Dave and Penny (Penny is Crazy Dave's time travelling supercar partner), have already arrived in Ancient Egypt. This is ...
It is designated as the official language of mainland China and a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore that mainly differ in their lexicon. [7]
Speaking, listening. Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English ), or telephone ( American English and Canadian English ), [1] is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2]
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. [a] The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the late Shang dynasty. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou ...