Ancient Chinese
Proper noun
Meaning
Ancient Chinese
(obsolete) Middle Chinese.
Coordinate terms: Archaic Chinese, Ancient Chinese
Examples
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
Homer Dubs, "Theism and Naturalism in Ancient Chinese Philosophy," Philosophy of East and West, Vol 9, No 3/4, pp 163-172, University of Hawaii Press: 1960.
Ancient Chinese culture was deeply spiritual and encouraged self-reflection and self-refinement.
The poison is a weapon of her bitterness, Fairlamb, Horace L. "Romancing the Tao: How Ang Lee Globalized Ancient Chinese Wisdom," symploke vol. 15, No. 1-2 (2007), p.196.