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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 Democracy
Chinese Democracy, Guns N' Roses album released November 23, 2008 on Geffen/Black Frog; recorded from 1994 by Axl Rose alone of the original lineup, cost about $13 million, 14 tracks, Metacritic 64.
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 Football
Chinese Football (国足乐队) is a Chinese indie rock and math rock band formed in Wuhan in 2011, one of few mainland China indie bands with a large international following.
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 guardian lions
Chinese guardian lions (shishi, 石狮; Western "foo dogs") are paired stylized lion statues placed at palaces, temples, and gates for protection and status; the male paws an embroidered ball and the female a cub, a tradition dating to the Han dynasty.
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 Laundry
Chinese Laundry is an underground electronic music nightclub in the basement of the Slip Inn in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1996, it has ranked in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
Chinese Lions
Chinese Lions (Karajishi-zu byōbu) is a pair of Japanese folding screens depicting two lions on gold leaf, the right screen painted by Kano Eitoku in the 16th century.
Chinese literature
Chinese literature (中国文学) spans over 3,000 years of writing in poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, from the Shi jing and Dream of the Red Chamber to modern, diaspora, and online literature, with Liu Cixin's 2015 Hugo marking its global reach.
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 New Year picture
A Chinese New Year picture (nianhua) is a decorative woodblock print that Chinese families traditionally put up at the Spring Festival to bring good luck.
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
Chinese opera (xiqu, 戏曲) is China's traditional musical theatre family of about 348 extant genres, from Peking opera to kunqu, combining singing, speech, dance, and martial arts; UNESCO-listed and codified by four skills (chang, nian, zuo, da).
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 orchestra
Chinese orchestra (民族管弦乐队, guoyuetuan): a 20th-century large ensemble of Chinese wind, bowed-string, plucked-string, and percussion instruments modeled on the Western symphony orchestra, begun with Shanghai's 1920 Datong Music Society and standardized after 1949.
Chinese painting
Chinese painting (中国画, guóhuà, formerly guhua): the traditional Han Chinese brush-and-ink painting form on silk or paper, divided into figure, landscape, and bird-and-flower subjects and gongbi versus xieyi techniques.
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 rock (中国摇滚)
Chinese rock (中国摇滚, yaogun yinyue) is mainland China's rock music, born with Cui Jian's 1986 "Nothing to My Name" and first album in 1989, defined by independence from official pop and shaped by censorship, dakou CDs, and live scenes.
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.
Chinese Take-Away (中国人的流浪记)
Chinese Take-Away (Un cuento chino, 中国人的流浪记) is a 2011 Argentine-Spanish comedy by Sebastián Borensztein starring Ricardo Darín and Ignacio Huang; Goya-winning, most-viewed Argentine film of 2011.
Chinese woodblock printing
Chinese woodblock printing (diaoban yinshua) is a relief printing technique, invented in China around 700 AD and used for books for more than 1,000 years.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чыңгыз Айтматов, Чингиз Айтматов), 1928–2008, Kyrgyz and Russian novelist and diplomat; author of Jamila, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; coined mankurt; Lenin Prize laureate.
Chingu Amiga
Chingu Amiga is the online name of Sujin Kim (born 1991, Busan), a South Korean influencer in Mexico making comedy about Korea-Mexico cultural differences, with tens of millions of followers and businesses teaching Korean.
Chingy
Chingy (Howard Bailey Jr., born 1980) is a St. Louis rapper whose 2003 debut single "Right Thurr" and album Jackpot (2x Platinum) made him an early-2000s pop-rap star.
Chinmayi Sripada
Chinmayi Sripada, also credited as Chinmayi, is an Indian playback singer and dubbing artist working mainly in Tamil and Telugu cinema, known for 'Tere Bina' and 'Kaathalae Kaathalae'.
Chinna Chinna Aasai
Chinna Chinna Aasai (ചിന്ന ചിന്ന ആസൈ) is a 2026 Malayalam-Tamil bilingual romantic drama directed by Varsha Vasudev, starring Indrans and Madhoo as strangers bonding in Varanasi; released 19 June 2026, streaming on JioHotstar from 28 July 2026.
Chinna Gounder (சின்ன கவுண்டர்)
Chinna Gounder (சின்ன கவுண்டர்), also Chinna Kounder, is a 1992 Tamil drama directed by R.V. Udayakumar, starring Vijayakanth as village judge Thavasi, with Ilaiyaraaja's music, Pongal release, Tamil Nadu State Film Award wins, and Telugu and Kannada remakes.