Chinese Swan Lake: "The four little swans turned into four small frogs"

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  • Asia (continent)
    Asia, the world’s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia is more a geographic term than a homogeneous continent, and the use of the term to describe such a vast area always carries the potential of obscuring the enormous ...
    Asia (Swans on lake, Yili Xinijang, China)
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  • China
    ChinaChinese (Pinyin) Zhonghua or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-hua, also spelled (Pinyin) Zhongguo or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-kuo, officially People’s Republic of ChinaChinese (Pinyin) Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chung-hua Jen-min Kung-ho-kuo, country ...
  • Lake (physical feature)
    Lake, any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of appreciable size. Definitions that precisely distinguish lakes, ponds, swamps, and even rivers and other bodies of nonoceanic water are not well established. It may be said, however, that rivers ...
  • Chinese religions from the article Religious dress
    Court dress, sacrificial dress, and ordinary dress were all influenced in ancient China by the Confucian-inspired civil religion. The classical text for the Confucian ideal of deportment and dress is Book X of the Analects, in which the emphasis is on propriety in every detail, whether at home ...
  • East African lakes (lake system, East Africa)
    East African lakes, group of lakes located in East Africa. The majority of the East African lakes lie within the East African Rift System, which forms a part of a series of massive fissures in the Earth’s crust extending northward from the Zambezi River valley through eastern and northeastern ...
  • Chinese art
    Chinese art, the painting, calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes, jade carving, and other fine or decorative art forms produced in China over the centuries. A discussion concerning Chinese art, from the documentary China: West Meets East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Great ...
  • Chinese painting
    Chinese painting, one of the major art forms produced in China over the centuries. The other arts of China are treated in separate articles. These include Chinese calligraphy, which in China is closely associated with painting; interior design; tapestry; floral decoration; Chinese pottery ...
  • Chinese pottery
    Chinese pottery, also called Chinese ceramics, objects made of clay and hardened by heat: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain, particularly those made in China. Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in China, and the influence of Chinese porcelain on later European pottery ...
  • Chinese philosophy
    Chinese philosophy, the thought of Chinese culture, from earliest times to the present. The keynote in Chinese philosophy is humanism: man and his society have occupied, if not monopolized, the attention of Chinese philosophers throughout the ages. Ethical and political discussions have ...
  • Chinese architecture
    Chinese architecture, the built structures of China, specifically those found in the 18 historical provinces of China that are bounded by the Tibetan Highlands on the west, the Gobi to the north, and Myanmar (Burma), Laos, and Vietnam to the southwest. Forbidden City The Forbidden City, Beijing ...


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