Tag: Ancient Chinese

1. Four Basic Styles of Ancient Chinese Architecture Chinese architectures can be divided into many types and styles but generally falls into four basic ones.

A  sedan chair(轿子jiàozi) is a human or animal-powered transport vehicle for carrying a person, once popular across the China. It has different names like “shoulder carriage”, “sleeping sedan” and “warm sedan” etc due to the time, location and structural(structural means relating to or affecting the structure of something) differences. The sedans familiar to modern people are warm sedans that have been in use since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The sedan body is fixed in the wooden rectangular frames on the two thin log poles. The top and four sides of the seat are enclosed with curtains, with a chair blind that could be rolled open in the front and a small window on each side. A chair is placed inside the enclosed space.

Mahjong(麻将), also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game that originated in China. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in South Korea and Japan). The game and its regional variants are widely played throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia and have a small following in Western countries. Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a degree of chance.