Archive for January 12th, 2009
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Monday, January 12th, 2009Subscribe to free Email Newsletter Library>China ABC>Medicine>Ethnic Medicine Tibetan Ethnic Minority To date, the use of altogether 2,294 kinds of Tibetan medicine have been recorded. Over 300 of them are commonly in use, of which over 200 of them are plant herbs, making up 70 percent of the total; over 40 are animal medicines (12 [...]
Chinese Character – Canals in Ancient China
Monday, January 12th, 2009Subscribe to free Email Newsletter Library>China ABC>Sci-Tech>Ancient achievements Canals in Ancient China Han Gou Han Gou (Han Canal), connecting theYangtze Riverand the HuaiheRiver, is China’s oldest canal in record. During the late years of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), when Fu Chai, king of the Wu Kingdom, went up to the north to conquer [...]
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