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	<title>Ancient Chinese Culture &#187; sharon</title>
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	<description>Chinese culture, history, art, myths in ancient China</description>
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		<title>Chinese Lunar Calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lunar Calendar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides Solar Calendar, the Chinese also have a Chinese Lunar Calendar. It is a yearly one based on the moon&#8217;s rotation around the earth. Due to the cyclical dating, the beginning and the ending of each year are different. This calendar is always used to determine festivals, such as Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. [...]
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		<title>Hanfu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanfu or Han Chinese clothing, also known as Silk Robe in English, refers to the clothing worn by the Han Chinese people, the predominant ethnic group of China, for millennia until the establishment of the Qing Dynasty in 1644. Han Chinese clothing are cross-collar, right lapelled, waist-hugging, tied knots and in some cases, complete with [...]
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		<title>Chinese Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mysterious Emblem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dragons have been deeply rooted in the Chinese culture. China has been praised as &#8220;The Giant Dragon of the East&#8221;. Chinese around the world, proudly proclaim themselves as the descendants of the dragon. In ancient China, nearly all the things connected with the emperor were preceded by the epithet &#8220;dragon&#8221;, thus, dragon seat (refer to [...]
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		<title>King Lanling: Masked Warrior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Beauties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[King Lanling, whose name was Gaosu, was the king of Lanling Prefecture in Beiqi Dynasty. Legend had it that he was good at fighting and scored one victory after another. However, he was so handsome that he couldn&#8217;t scare his enemies and often scorned by them, so he asked his men to make him a [...]
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		<title>Pottery Figurine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pottery Figurine was always associated with burial in ancient China. The belief that worldly trappings would ensure the deceased&#8217;s comfort in the next life led the development of life-like substitutes which were buried in the tombs. Pottery figurine was one of the institutions of immolation or burying the living with the dead. Different figurines represented [...]
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