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Authors: Adeline Yen Mah

Tags: #China - History - Song dynasty; 960-1279, #Psychology, #Hypnotism, #Reincarnation, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Juvenile Fiction, #Asia, #Fiction, #Historical, #People & Places

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Artistic Works 
  
 
Da Guan Cha Lun
 
 

 
Treatise on Tea;
a classic text by Emperor Huizong on the art of the tea ceremony

 
Lun Yu
 
 

 
Confucian Analects;
a rulebook for life, made up of discussions Confucius had with his students

 
Qing Ming Shang He Tu
 
 

 
Along the River at
Qing Ming
(a painting)

 
Ting Qin Tu
 
 

 
Listening to Zither Music
(a painting)

 
Xiang Long Shi
 
 

 
Auspicious Dragon Rock
(a painting)

 
Zhou Bi Suan Jing
 
 

 
Astronomy and Mathematics
in Ancient China:
one of the oldest classic Chinese texts on mathematics

 
Sayings 
  
 
he li ji qun
 
 

a crane among hens 

 
tian xia zhi bian yuan 
 

at the edge of civilization 

 
 
  
 
you he bu ke?
 ?
 

is anything impossible? 

 
Words and Phrases 
  
 
Ba Zi
 
 

Eight Characters or Eight Words 

 
cao shu
 
 

cursive script 

 
chi
 
 

a unit of measurement of approximately thirteen inches 

 
cu ju
 
 

football, also called soccer 

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