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Traditional Chinese timekeeping. Traditional Chinese timekeeping refers to the time standards for divisions of the day used in China until the introduction of the Shixian calendar in 1628 at the beginning of the Qing dynasty. [ 1][ 2]
The traditional Chinese calendar ( traditional Chinese: 農曆; simplified Chinese: 农历; lit. 'agricultural calendar'; informally traditional Chinese: 陰曆; simplified Chinese: 阴历; lit. ' lunar calendar ') is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.
The official national standard time is called Beijing Time ( BJT, simplified Chinese: 北京时间; traditional Chinese: 北京時間; pinyin: Běijīng shíjiān) domestically because it is based on the 120th meridian east, where Beijing City is located, [ 1][ 2] and China Standard Time ( CST) internationally. [ 3]
A traditional Chinese unit of time, the kè (刻), was 1/96 of the 24-hour day, equivalent mathematically to 15 minutes and semantically to the English "quarter of an hour". A quarter-after is thus yī kè ( 一刻 ; 'one kè ') or guò yī kè ( 過一刻 ; 'one kè past').
The incense clock ( simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping device that originated from China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and spread to neighboring East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. The clocks' bodies are effectively ...
As English loanwords, both " cheongsam " and " qipao " describe the same type of body-hugging dress worn by Chinese women, and the words could be used interchangeably. [ 5] The term cheongsam is a romanization of Cantonese word chèuhngsāam ( 長衫; 'long shirt/dress'), which comes from the Shanghainese term zansae.
Chinese culture (simplified Chinese: 中华文化; traditional Chinese: 中華文化; pinyin: Zhōnghuá wénhuà) is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia with Sinosphere in whole and is extremely diverse, with customs and ...
5. Congee. Ngoc Minh Ngo/Heirloom. Also Called: Báizhōu. Try It: Quick Congee. Congee, or rice porridge, is a nourishing, easy-to-digest meal (particularly for breakfast). Congees differ from ...