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Childhood
Childhood is the period of human life between birth and adulthood, treated by law, culture, and scholars as both a biological phase and a social category.
Children's Day
Children's Day, also called Día del Niño, is a holiday celebrating children and their rights; the UN's World Children's Day falls on 20 November each year.
Children's Day (India)
Children's Day (India), or Bal Diwas, is observed on 14 November each year, honoring Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday (Chacha Nehru); before 1964 India used the UN's Universal Children's Day on 20 November.
Children's Day (Japan)
Children's Day (こどもの日, Kodomo no hi) is Japan's national holiday on May 5, created by the 1948 Act on National Holidays to respect children and thank mothers, observed with koinobori, May dolls, kashiwa-mochi, and iris baths from Tango no Sekku.
Chili con carne
Chili con carne (chile con carne), or Texas chili, is a Tex-Mex beef and chile stew first recorded in 1857, popularized by San Antonio's Chili Queens, industrialized by Gebhardt's 1896 chili powder, and Texas's state dish since 1977.
Chili dog
Chili dog: an American hot dog in a bun topped with chili con carne; term dates to 1970–75. Best-known variant is the Greek-Macedonian Coney dog of Detroit, Cincinnati, and Michigan.
Chili powder
Chili powder is an American spice blend of ground dried chilies with cumin, garlic, oregano, and often paprika, onion powder, and salt, developed for Tex-Mex dishes like chili con carne. First commercialized by William Gebhardt in San Antonio in 1896; mild (500–1,000 SHU) versus pure cayenne (30,000–50,000 SHU).
Chili's
Chili's Grill & Bar (Chili's) is a Dallas-founded American casual dining chain, founded 1975 on Greenville Avenue and owned since 1983 by Brinker International. Known for fajitas, burgers, Baby Back Ribs, margaritas, the $10.99 3 for Me deal, and a Kevin Hochman turnaround with five straight years of same-store sales growth.
Chilkat blanket
The Chilkat blanket (Tlingit naaxein, "fringe about the body") is a ceremonial textile woven by hand from mountain goat wool and cedar bark by Pacific Northwest Coast peoples.
Chilkat weaving
Chilkat weaving is a finger-twined textile art of the northern Northwest Coast, in which Tlingit and Haida weavers make ceremonial robes from mountain goat wool and cedar bark.
Chimay Brewery
Chimay Brewery (Bières de Chimay), a Trappist brewery at Scourmont Abbey near Chimay, Belgium, founded 1850 and brewing since 1862; known for Red, White, and Blue beers, Trappist cheese, and the Chimay-Wartoise charitable foundation.
Chimichanga
Chimichanga (also chivichanga): a deep-fried burrito from the Arizona-Sonora border region, filled with meat, beans, and cheese; word means "trinket" in Mexican Spanish, attested by 1964, with disputed Tucson and Phoenix origin legends.
Chimichurri
Chimichurri: uncooked herb sauce of parsley, dried oregano, garlic, red wine vinegar, oil, and ají molido from Argentina and Uruguay (Río de la Plata), served with asado; also the Mexican cilantro-lime and Brazilian dry variants.
Chimú blackware pottery
Chimú blackware pottery is the dark, polished, mold-made ware of the Chimú culture of northern Peru, produced from about 900 until the Inca conquest around 1470.
Chinese calendar (农历)
Chinese calendar (农历, nongli, also 夏历): China's lunisolar traditional calendar, with 29.5306-day synodic months, 365.2422-day tropical years, 19-year/7-leap-month rule, zhongqi-based leap months, standardized by GB/T 33661-2017.
Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramics: pottery, stoneware, and porcelain made in China (陶瓷) from Neolithic times, including the world's earliest pottery at Xianrendong (~20,000 years), Eastern Han celadon, Song's Five Great Kilns, Tang blue-and-white, and the UNESCO-listed Jingdezhen porcelain industry sites.
Chinese chicken salad
Chinese chicken salad is an American, Californian main-course salad of chicken, cabbage, wonton strips, and sesame-soy dressing, popularized by Madame Wu's Garden in Santa Monica and Wolfgang Puck's Chinois, not a dish from China.
Chinese clothing
Chinese clothing (中国服饰; Hanfu, qipao) is China's dress tradition across five millennia: two basic forms, class and ritual symbolism, Qing-era change, and modern guofeng revival.
Chinese cuisine (中国菜)
Chinese cuisine (中国菜) is China's cooking traditions across 34 provincial regional cuisines and 56 ethnic groups; the eight major cuisines (Lu, Chuan, Yue, Su, Min, Zhe, Xiang, Hui) were formally systematized by the China Cuisine Association in 2018.
Chinese culture
Chinese culture (中华文化, Huaxia culture) is the material and spiritual culture of the Chinese nation over 5,000+ years: philosophy of harmony, eight virtues, three cultural layers, calligraphy and painting, heritage protection, and modern digital exports.
Chinese embroidery
Chinese embroidery (中国刺绣), a needle-and-thread craft practiced for over 2,000 years, with four famous schools (Su, Xiang, Yue, Shu), ethnic minority traditions, and modern commercial and digital revival.
Chinese funeral rituals
Chinese funeral rituals (丧葬礼俗) are the death, mourning, burial, and ancestor-sacrifice practices of Han and minority communities, structured by Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, and folk traditions, marked by orthopraxy, regional variation, secondary burial, and state-led reform toward cremation and memorial meetings.
Chinese herbal tea botanicals (chrysanthemum, licorice, honeysuckle, and others)
Chinese herbal tea botanicals such as chrysanthemum, licorice, and honeysuckle are medicine-food-homology plant materials brewed as tisanes; about 782 species are used, with FDA GRN 13 and safety issues including glycyrrhizin and contaminants.
Chinese Islamic cuisine
Chinese Islamic cuisine (qingzhen cai, 清真菜) is halal Chinese food centered on beef, lamb, and wheat noodles, practiced chiefly by Hui and Uyghur Muslims; qingzhen means 'pure and true', the Chinese term for halal, with Lanzhou lamian as its signature dish.
Chinese knotting (中国结)
Chinese knotting (中国结), traditionally also called 络子 or 绦子, is the Chinese craft of tying one cord into symmetrical decorative knots. Named around 1980 by Chen Xiasheng with Hansheng magazine, it originated in record-keeping knots, flourished in Tang-Song, and peaked in Ming-Qing.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, known in China as Chunjie (春节, Spring Festival), is the traditional new year of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, falling between late January and mid-February each year.
Chinese noodles
Chinese noodles (面条): strand staple foods of Chinese cuisine made from wheat, rice, or starches. Wheat north, rice south along the Qinling-Huai line; 4,000-year-old Lajia millet noodles; 43.8 billion instant noodle servings in 2024.
Chinese opera costume
Chinese opera costume, known as xingtou or xifu, is the standardized stage wardrobe of Chinese opera, above all Peking opera, tracing to the mid-14th century.
Chinese restaurant
Chinese restaurant: eating establishments serving Chinese cuisine, especially the 45,000+ Chinese American restaurants in the US, from mid-1800s Chinatown origins through chop suey, post-1965 regional diversification, takeout cartons, and modern fine dining.
Chinese sausage
Chinese sausage (香肠, xiāngcháng; lap cheong, 腊肠/臘腸, làcháng) is a raw dried cured sausage of pork with salt, sugar, wine, dried in casings; Cantonese sweet and Sichuan spicy styles, governed by GB/T 23493-2022.