“Gourd Bomb” is a kind of gunpowder weapon originally created by the Yi ethnic group in Ailao Mountain in Yunnan Province. It is a small-sized hand-thrown bomb or rather a grenade with gourd as the projectile body.
Category: Chinese Culture
Farming and Sericulture
Producing food by cultivating crops and raising animals was a most important step forward in the development of human history. Around 10,000 years ago, people moved from an economy of gathering to one of producing, and entered the New Stone Age. Before that, people maintained their lives by picking wild fruits and other plants, and hunting animals. In order to look for food, they lived a nomadic life, but cultivation of grain crops made them settle down, thus the earliest villages appeared.
Medicine
In 1973, the excavation of a tomb dating back to the year 168 BC at Mawangdui（马王堆 Mǎwáng duī）, Changsha, a city in south China, shook the world. The body of the occupant of the tomb-a marquis-was preserved in a special liquid which prevented it from decaying and maintained partial elasticity of the flesh 2,000 years after it had been buried. This made people reevaluate China's early achievements in medicine and chemistry.
About Swordswoman Riding West on White Horse
The White Horse in the West Wind(白马啸西风Báimǎ Xiàoxīfēng ) is a well-known Wuxia novella by Louis Cha. The title in Chinese can be roughly translated to White Horse Neighing in the West Wind. It is first published in Year 1961 in Ming Pao. It is also the first time Cha featured a female protagonist in all his novels.
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber of China
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber(倚天屠龙记Yĭtiān túlóng jì) is a Chinese famous Wuxia novel by The Louis Cha, who is known as Jin Yong(金庸Jīn Yōng). It was first serialized in Ming Pao in Year 1961. The literal translation of the title is The Tale of the Heaven-Reliant and Dragon-Slayer.
About A Deadly Secret
“A Deadly Secret”(连城诀Liánchéngjué) is a famous Wuxia novel by Louis Cha (aka Jin Yong). It is alternately translated as Requiem of Ling Sing[citation needed]. It was first published in the Southeast Asia Weekly (东南亚周刊) and Ming Pao in Year 1963. The story revolves around Di Yun(狄云Dí Yún), a down-to-earth young martial artist who is imprisoned after being framed. In his quest for revenge, he accidentally acquires the "Lian Cheng Swordplay" , an ancient artifact not only prized for its martial arts values, but also for containing a secret that has become the envy of the Wulin.
Chinese Culture: Popular Family Dishes in China (家常小菜)
Firstly, I will introduce the popular family dishes in China. 1. Scrambled egg with tomato (西红柿炒鸡蛋 xīhóngshì chǎo jīdàn)
About Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils(天龙八部Tiānlóng Bābù) is a famous and long Wuxia novel by Louis Cha.
About the Wuxia (Martial Arts) Novels
Wuxia novel(武侠小说wǔxiá xiăoshuō) is a Chinese novel genre, which features martial arts heroes, i.e. swordsmen and those related to them, with the plot dedicating to the intricate(you use intricate to describe something that has many small parts or details) relationships of honor, loyalty, love and hatred between individuals in the world of martial arts. There's usually a thread of martial arts practice and demonstration running through the plot.
Martial Art and Chinese Literature
Earliest literature work(文学作品wénxué zuòpĭn) on the martial art or chivalrous(a chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women) characters was Records of the Grand Historian, a masterpiece from Sima Qian, the great historian in Western Han Dynasty. In the book, the sections such as Biographies of Knights-errant and Biographies of Assassins recorded the legendary characters including Jing Ke, Zhu Jia and Guo Jie in the form of historical biography.
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