... She later traveled to America, where she married Tin Jong. They had three children. After the birth of each child, her husband gave her a gold bracelet, made of twenty-four carat gold. Also, when she has extra money, Lindo buys herself bracelets made of pure twenty-four-carat gold. To her they ... has contributed to her madness. Lena thinks about the neighbors from that childhood apartment. She remembers that the voice from the wall was really an Italian mother and daughter who lived together in fiery and constant conflict. The shouting was so severe at times that Lena thought one of the...

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... toe, symbolizing happiness and good luck. The traditional bridal garment for the girl includes the phoenix coronet and embroidered vest and shoes. A phoenix is embroidered on the coronet with either silver thread or similar materials. The vest, normally in red color, is embroidered with sophisticated pattern and functions as a fancy shawl that's also a protective layer on top of the gown. The ... the curtains. A set of bright yellow silk tassels are attached along the bottom edges of the sedan. Some exquisite designs of the sedan even have a pair of streamers with small silver bells han...

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... Lunar New Year. Welcoming the Wealth God is a critical part of the celebration of the Lunar New Year. The shape of the dumplings is identical to that of ancient Chinese silver and gold bullion. Thus, the festive consumption of dumplings becomes the family's symbolic act of welcoming the Wealth God. ("Chinese Popular Religions") Because people in rural areas are ... ...

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... bluish reflections and dark or red hair with copper highlights. The winter type fits for those with a matte or white skin with bluish reflections, and dark brown, dark gray or silver hair.21 The classic type22 The classic type of makeup is most common for the people who are daily in contact with others. It also fits most women in correlation ... ...

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... a homogeneous whole. There is wide difference in the dialects they speak. Actually, between some dialects, there is more difference among them than some Indo-European languages, for example Spanish and Italian. Why they are called dialects? Chinese Romanization systems (Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Zhuyin Fuhao). There is one relatively homogeneous block, the Northern dialects spoken by roughly 70% of the Han Chinese ... ...

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... on bamboo. The scholars found it interesting to paint their poetic and artistic expressions on the surface. A great variety of fans have been produced in China; sandalwood, ivory, even gold, silver and jade have been used as material. Of particular interest is the sandalwood fan. Its most outstanding characteristic is the pleasant, fragrant scent that comes from the wood. Even in ... ...

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... tax revenues, the army was not paid, thereby causing troop desertion which consequently facilitated boarder penetration by aggressive tribes. A sudden stress in the Chinese economy was caused by a flow of silver from the West. Extreme weather conditions and inadequate granary administration induced malnourishment and a vulnerability to pestilence among rural populations. Clearly, by the late seventeenth-century, China was in complete disarray ... ...

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