Word info

Ancient Chinese

Proper noun

Meaning

Ancient Chinese

(obsolete) Middle Chinese.
Coordinate terms: Archaic Chinese, Ancient Chinese

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Lafcadio Hearn

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. Madeleine L'Engle

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. Arne Glimcher

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. Source: Internet

Ancient Chinese culture was deeply spiritual and encouraged self-reflection and self-refinement. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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