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Discuss cool chinese stuff here
I'll start:
>The Yongle Encyclopedia is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in 11,095 volumes. Fewer than 400 volumes survive today, comprising about 800 rolls, or 3.5% of the original work.
>Most of the text was lost during the latter half of the 19th century, in the midst of events including the Second Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. Its sheer scope and size made it the world's largest general encyclopedia, until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in late 2007, nearly six centuries later
imagine how cool it would've been if it survived 
>i wanna learn
https://archive.org/details/chineseenglishbilingualvisualdictionary_201909
yongle civilopedia 
https://www.civilopedia.net/rise-and-fall/civilizations/leader_yongle
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Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates 
I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often.
Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people.
https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation
I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in
Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese
https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig
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「 衆鳥高飛盡 孤雲獨去閒 相看兩不厭 只有敬亭山 」 「 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. 」 A poem about the Jing-Ting mountain, related to Zazen in Buddhism, which is related to the meditation. It's interesting how Japan diverged from Chinese Buddhism with schools of esoteric Buddhism with skull rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa-ryu Chinese esoteric Buddhism never really flourished because of the persecution that arrived shortly after it began to be taught, and the name for it is literally related to the Tang dynasty - 唐密 It seems to be undergoing a small revival, with the designation of these temples by esoteric monks as important sites, because of their cultural influence outside China
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Been a while since I visited this site hello Hikarins !
搭子文化 is an interesting sociocultural phenomenon within China today where people make friends based on their social status in life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazi_culture
https://www.wenlinshe.com/tw/ this is a very cool library with a lot of classics and idioms that could be useful
http://www.robos.org/sections/chinese/cangjie.html this provides information on cangjie which is a useful system to type Chinese and makes use of the radicals, with keys mapped to them
「 夫禍富之 轉而相生
其變難見也 」
「 Disasters and abundance take places with one another
It is difficult to make certain 」
These are two lines from the 淮南子 about the old man near the border who had lost his horse. It is a pretty famous parable, and parables, addages, or idioms in Chinese are often referred to as 成語
https://sites.google.com/site/wenzhoudialect/anthology/baidu-wenzhou-dialect this regards "Wenzhounese" a division of Wu Chinese, which is also close to Shanghainese. Wenzhounese is famous for it's uniqueness, with around eleven tones, with phrases describing it discussing it's remoteness "天不怕，地不怕，就怕温州人说温州话" "Fear not the heavens, nor the earth, but the Wenzhou man speaking Wenzhounese. It is regarded as one of the devil dialects.
https://github.com/ZWolken/Great-Dictionary-of-Modern-Chinese-Dialects/blob/main/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8.pdf this is a document regarding a 2002 compilation of the fourty two modern Chinese dialects
躺平 is a term used to mean "lie flat" and it is mostly a word used by a lot of NEETs in China, kukuku is an example of an old Chinese imageboard, although their culture is very isolated
https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-LearnChinese/index.html a useful site from the Shanghai government
I also learned about tone sandhi, where the tones change regarding the context and the previous tone that precedes a phrase, it is pretty strange and hard to figure out https://opentext.ku.edu/tingyiting/chapter/lesson22/
邯郸学步 is a unique phrase that I relate to, it warns one to not copy another person blindly, and regards the Handan walk, which was sort of an old trend in ancient China
https://www.straightdope.com/21343499/is-the-chinese-word-for-crisis-a-combination-of-danger-and-opportunity there is a lot of discussion on whether the Chinese word for disaster is a combination of danger and opportunity
There is also an obscure practice where Chinese characters are used and picked as a form of Astrology, there are few pages on it https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/literomancy
There is a lot of use of seals or chops within businesses in China, and it's often discussed in the legal context, it is sort of like a more official signature compared to ordinary 签字/ https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/is-that-a-real-chinese-company-chop-stamp-seal/
