"Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles (or ""W&W"") (, lit. ""Wu Xing Space-Time - Great Feng Shui War"") is an Independent developed commercial videogame developed by Yuan Works, a company based in Costa Rica. It is a puzzle game for the GP2X and Sega Dreamcast that combines strategy and action. As of January 31, 2011, the game is freely available for Windows. There are elements in the game: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Also, there are two special blocks: Wind and Void. Both of these special blocks have special interaction with the rest of the"
"literally translated as ""wind and water"", originated from the school of yin and yang and is deeply rooted in ancestral worshiping that seeks to harmonise the pnuemas between the living (yang) and the dead (yin). Ancestral worship is a common practice of the Chinese and the Qingming Festival during the second full moon is observed by the majority. This reflects that Chinese tradition remains extant in modern Singapore. They pray in tribute to their bereaved ancestors, where their spirits are honoured with offerings including food, beverages, joss paper, incense sticks, and even paper houses, which are intrinsic practices for Taoists."
"and blue, or red and white. A certain movement in poetry, influenced by the ""shan shui"" style, came to be known as ""Shanshui poetry"". Sometimes, the poems were designed to be viewed with a particular work of art, others were intended to be ""textual art"" that invoked an image inside a reader's mind. The art form of ""shan shui"" has been popular to the point where a Chinese animation from 1988 entitled ""Feeling from Mountain and Water"" uses the same art style and even the term for the film's title. Additionally, many recent movies and plays produced in China, specifically"
"In Chinese astrology, water is included in the 10 heavenly stems (the five elements in their yin and yang forms), which combine with the 12 Earthly Branches (or Chinese signs of the zodiac), to form the 60 year cycle. Yang water years end in 2 (e.g., 1982), while yin water years end in 3 (e.g., 1983). Water governs the Chinese zodiac signs Pig and Rat. Water usually represents wealth and money luck in Feng Shui, although it might differ in some subjective scenarios. Water (Wu Xing) In Chinese philosophy, water (), is the low point of the matter, or the"
"Yu Shi Yu Shi () is a Chinese spirit or god of rain, also known as or conflated with Red Pine (Chisong, 赤松, or, Chisongzi – Master Red Pine), among other names. Translations of ""Yu Shi"" into English include ""Lord of Rain"" and ""Leader of Rain"". Yu Shi in popular religion in China and Chinese mythology generally appears in association with Feng Bo, the god of the wind. There are both current religious activities and historical mythical stories associated with Yu Shi. Various references in poetry and popular culture also exist, for example in the ""Chu ci"" poem ""Yuan You""."
"Water (Wu Xing) In Chinese philosophy, water (), is the low point of the matter, or the matter's dying or hiding stage. Water is the fifth stage of Wu Xing. Water is the most yin in character of the five elements. Its motion is downward and inward, and its energy is stillness and conserving. Water is associated with certain colors, with the planet Mercury, with the moon (which was believed to cause the dew to fall at night), with night, with the north, with winter or cold weather, and with the Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu) in the Chinese constellation Four"
"Feng shui Feng shui or fengshui (, ), also known as Chinese geomancy, is a pseudoscience originating from China, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. The term ""feng shui"" literally translates as ""wind-water"" in English. This is a cultural shorthand taken from the passage of the now-lost ""Classic of Burial"" recorded in Guo Pu's commentary: Feng shui is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics, classified as physiognomy (observation of appearances through formulas and calculations). The feng shui practice discusses architecture in terms of ""invisible forces"" that bind the universe, earth, and"
"and arrangements. As such, many popular China Wind music have employed a diverse range of genres, including R&B, rock and roll, hip hop, punk, jazz, country music and Peking opera. China Wind music is also increasingly being presented in more forms. For example, Chou and Fang's 2003 song, ""The East Wind Breaks"" () adopts a typical Chinese melody, but is composed in an R&B style. The song is distinctive for the effect of ""a musician playing a Chinese pipa in a classic called 'Dong Feng Po' with a mild sense of melancholy,"" while Chou's rapping injects a sense of ""modernity""."
"and ""just"", derived from its water radical (氵). It also carries the sense of ""standard, measurement, and model"". Derk Bodde and Clarence Morris held that the concept of ""fǎ"" had an association with ""yì"" (義: ""social rightness""). Yan Fu, in his Chinese translation of Montesquieu's ""De l'esprit des lois"" published in 1913, warned his readers about the difference between the Chinese ""fǎ"" and Western law: ""The word 'law' in Western languages has four different interpretations in Chinese as in ""lǐ"" (理: ""order""), ""lǐ"" (禮: ""rites"", ""decorum""), ""fǎ"" (法: ""human laws"") and ""zhì"" (制: ""control""). A term which preceded ""fǎ"" was"
"power to control and govern the world (Creel)."" In the Taoist texts, ""wu wei"" ( ) is often associated with water and its yielding nature. In illustration, it can assume any form or shape it inhabits. ""Wu"" may be translated as ""not have"" or ""without""; ""Wei"" may be translated as ""do, act, serve as, govern ""or"" effort"". The literal meaning of ""wu wei"" is ""without action"", ""without effort"", or ""without control"", and is often included in the paradox wei wu wei: ""action without action"" or ""effortless doing"". The practice of ""wu wei"" and the efficacy of ""wei wu wei"" are"
"catch fish at the Xi River. The snakes were natural swimmers and became very good at catching fish. The snakes eventually matured into five powerful dragons. In Chinese culture, dragons are considered spirits of water, and have the power to control the weather; during a drought, therefore, Wen Shi asked her dragon children to summon the rain for her village. When rain came and ended the drought, the grateful villagers gave Wen Shi the name ""Mother of Dragons"" () or ""Divine Human"" (). Qin Shihuang, the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, received word of Wen Shi and her dragons. The"
"Yinglong Yinglong (; lit. ""responsive dragon"") is a winged dragon and rain deity in ancient Chinese mythology. This legendary creature's name ""yinglong"" combines 4th-tone ""yìng"" 應 ""respond; correspond; answer; reply; agree; comply; consent; promise; adapt; apply"" and ""lóng"" 龍 ""Chinese dragon"". Although the former character is also pronounced 1st-tone ""yīng"" 應 ""should; ought to; need to; proper; suitable"", ""yinglong"" 應龍 definitively means ""responsive dragon; responding dragon"" and not ""proper dragon"". The Chinese classics frequently mention ""yinglong"" 應龍 ""a winged rain-dragon"" in myths about the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, especially the Yellow Emperor and his alleged descendent King Yu. The"
"every living thing that exists, as a kind of ""life force"" or ""spiritual energy"". It is frequently translated as ""energy flow"", or literally as ""air"" or ""breath"". (For example, ""tiānqì"", literally ""sky breath"", is the Chinese word for ""weather""). The concept of qi is often reified, however no scientific evidence supports its existence. The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist philosophy which has an ancient history in China. Some Western modern occultists equate the Chinese classical element of metal with ""air"", others with wood due to the elemental association of wind and wood in the bagua."
"the world without making any effort to check whether they are right."" On a Chinese airplane, Fallows was given a wet wipe labeled ""Wet turban needless wash"", translating (). Shanghai's Luwan District published a controversial ""Bilingual Instruction of Luwan District for Expo"" phrasebook with English terms and Chinese characters approximating pronunciation: ""Good morning! ()"" [pronounced ] (which could be literally translated as ""ancient cat tranquility"") and ""I'm sorry ()"" [""] (which is nonsensical). Chinglish is pervasive in present-day China ""on public notices in parks and at tourist sites, on shop names and in their slogans, in product advertisements and on"
"changing and movingone translation of ""wu xing"" is simply ""the five changes"". The Wu Xing are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for systems with five stages; hence the preferred translation of ""movements"", ""phases"" or ""steps"" over ""elements."" In the bagua, metal is associated with the divination figure 兌 ""Duì"" (☱, the lake or marsh: 澤/泽 ""zé"") and with 乾 ""Qián"" (☰, the sky or heavens: 天 ""tiān""). Wood is associated with 巽 ""Xùn"" (☴, the wind: 風/风 ""fēng"") and with 震 ""Zhèn"" (☳, the arousing/thunder: 雷 ""léi""). In view of the durability of meteoric iron, metal came to be associated"
"spring. Afterward, a temple was raised for the daughter-in-law, and they called her the Water Mother. The Water Mother The Water Mother is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in ""Folktales of China"". It does not exist in early text, although the cult of the Water Mother existed from the time of the Song dynasty. It is Aarne-Thompson type 565. Other tales of this type are ""Sweet Porridge"" and ""Why the Sea Is Salt"" -- ""Why the Sea Is Salt"" also using it as an explanatory legend. A woman lived with her mother-in-law and daughter; though she was"
"can be grown in water) and ""seui sin faa"" (water immortal flowers). In ancient Chinese culture the narcissus is referred to as water goddess of the Xiang River (), or the ""goddess standing above the waves"" (""lingbo xianzi""), also translated as ""fairy over rippling waters"". There are many legends in Chinese culture associated with ""Narcissus"", including one of a poor but good man who was brought great wealth by this flower. As Chinese Garden Art expert Marianne Beuchert writes, in contrast to the West, narcissi have not played a significant part in Chinese Garden art, but have become a symbol"
"vigor; morale ④ vital/material energy (in Ch[inese] metaphysics) ⑤ tone; atmosphere; attitude ⑥ anger ⑦ breath; respiration b.f. ① weather 天氣 ""tiānqì"" ② [linguistics] aspiration 送氣 ""sòngqì"" v. ① anger ② get angry ③ bully; insult. Qi was an early Chinese loanword in English. It was romanized as ""k'i"" in Church Romanization in the early-19th century, as ""ch'i"" in Wade–Giles in the mid-19th century (sometimes misspelled ""chi"" omitting the apostrophe), and as qi in Pinyin in the mid-20th century. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" entry for ""qi"" gives the pronunciation as IPA (tʃi), the etymology from Chinese ""qì"" ""air; breath"", and"
"of Xiaoshan, on the banks of the Huansha River. The West Lake in Hangzhou is said to be the incarnation of Xi Shi, hence it is also called Xizi Lake, Xizi being another name for Xi Shi, meaning Lady Xi. In his famous work of song poetry, ""Drinks at West Lake through Sunshine and Rain"" (飲湖上初睛居雨), renowned scholar Su Dongpo compared Xi Shi's beauty to the West Lake. Li Bai of the Tang dynasty wrote a poem about Xi Shi. Xi Shi is mentioned in the novel ""Journey to the West"", as a sign of grace and beauty. Xi Shi"
"Xirang Xirang (), also known as Swelling Earth, is a magical substance in Chinese mythology that had a self-expanding ability to continuously grow – which made it particularly effective for use by Gun and Yu the Great in fighting the rising waters of the Great Flood. This Chinese word compounds ""xī"" ""breathe; cease; rest; grow; multiply"" and ""rǎng"" ""soil; earth"". Noting similarities with earth-diver creation myths, Anne Birrell translates ""xirang"" as ""self-renewing soil"", and compares other translations of ""breathing earth"" (Wolfram Eberhard), ""swelling mold"" (Derk Bodde), ""idle soil"" (Roger Greatrex), and ""living earth"" or ""breathing earth"" (Rémi Mathieu). In some"
"China Wind music Zhongguo feng or China Wind () music, also known as Chinese style music, emerged in the popular music scene in the early 2000s, following the successes of Taiwanese mandopop star Jay Chou's early hit works such as ""Wife"" () and ""East Wind Breaks"" (). The blowing ""China Wind"" leads a new trend of Chinese pop music which involves the use of traditional Chinese components, rather than simply following Western music format. Other well-known China Wind songs include Jay Chou's ""Blue and White Porcelain"" (), ""Chrysanthemum Terrace"" (), ""A Thousand Miles Apart"" () and Leehom Wang's ""Mistake in"
"Shunfeng'er Shunfeng'er is a Chinese sea and door god. He usually appears with Qianliyan as a guardian of the temples of the sea goddess Mazu. The name ""Shunfeng'er"" literally means ""He with Ears that Follow the Wind"" in reference to his ability to hear any sound carried upon the wind. The unusual idiom is translated variously as ""Ears that Hear with the Wind"", ""Ears that Hear what Comes on the Wind"", ""Ears that Hear the Sounds Taken with the Wind"", ""Wind-Accompanying Ears"", ""Downwind Ears"", or even ""Sharp Ears"", ""Far-Hearing"", or ""All-Hearing"". The god's role in helping sailors distinguish favorable winds"
"years. At 9:69/127, Xun Zi says, ""Fire and water have ""qi"" but do not have life. Grasses and trees have life but do not have perceptivity. Fowl and beasts have perceptivity but do not have ""yi"" (sense of right and wrong, duty, justice). Men have ""qi"", life, perceptivity, and ""yi""."" Chinese people at such an early time had no concept of radiant energy, but they were aware that one can be heated by a campfire from a distance away from the fire. They accounted for this phenomenon by claiming """"qi"""" radiated from fire. At 18:62/122, he also uses """"qi"""" to"
"form represented heaven. A mandala explained the relationship between heaven and earth. Square plans, for both secular and religious structures, were set out with their sides facing north, south, east and west. The earliest surviving stone temple set out in this way is Sanchi. In China, landscape planning originated with Feng Shui, which is translated into English as 'wind and water' and is used to describe a set of general principles for the planning of development in relation to the natural landscape. The aim was to find the most auspicious environment possible, one sited in harmony with natural phenomena and"
"the sound of wind. The song does not begin until a girl brings water to the two members of the band, symbolically bringing life to the music. The word Mní does not directly translate to water. Breaking down the word, Ni means life and the M is translatable to “you and me”. As described by Lakota member Tiokasin Ghosthorse, “Water is a First Consciousness bestowed upon Mother Earth. Water is the time and space understood by Mother Earth as she holds the womb of all creation within her: oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds, creeks, streams, rains, floods, waves, humidity, wetness, dampness,"
"""Chu Ci"" bearing the title ""The Mountain Spirit"" (""Shan Gui"") describes such a being; but, one known only by means of this poem, although various scholarly research plausibly suggests a relationship with the modernly named Wushan, famous for its cloud and rain, and simian sounds (Hawkes, 115). Wushan (巫山, Wū Shān) is a range of mountains through whose deep gorges the rapids of the Wu River and the Yangzi River flow. Travel between the Sichuan Basin and the rest of what were then the other more populated areas of China was most frequently done by boat trips during which the"
"South–North Water Transfer Project The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (; literal meaning: Project of diverting the south water to the north) is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in the People's Republic of China. Ultimately it aims to channel 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems: Mao Zedong discussed the idea for a mass engineering project as an answer to China's water problems as early as 1952. He reportedly said, ""there's plenty of water in"
"waterwheels (an early Chinese invention) being run by two children representing yin and yang. Neijing Tu The Neijing Tu () is a Daoist ""inner landscape"" diagram of the human body illustrating ""Neidan"" ""Internal alchemy"", Wu Xing, Yin and Yang, and Chinese mythology. The name ""Neijing tu"" combines ""nei"" ""inside; inner; internal"", ""jing"" ""warp (vs. woof); scripture, canon, classic; (TCM) meridian; channel"", and ""tu"" ""picture; drawing; chart; map; plan"". This title, comparable with ""Huangdi Neijing"" 黃帝內經 ""Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon"", is generally interpreted as a ""chart"" or ""diagram"" of ""inner"" ""meridians"" or ""channels"" for circulating ""qi"" in ""neidan"" practices. English translations"
"Feeling from Mountain and Water Feeling from Mountain and Water (Chinese: 山水情; Pinyin: shān shuǐ qíng) is a Chinese animated short film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio under the master animator Te Wei. It is also referred to as Love of Mountain and River and Feelings of Mountains and Waters. The film does not contain any dialogue, allowing it to be watched by any culture. The only noises are the sound of the wind or other earthly elements. The film is considered a masterpiece at the artistic level, since it was essentially a landscape painting in motion. Artistically, it"
"Gonggong Gonggong, also known as Kanghui, is a Chinese water god or monster who is often depicted in Chinese mythology, folktales, and religious stories as having red hair and the tail of a serpent or dragon. He is often seen as destructive and is blamed for various cosmic catastrophes. In all accounts, Gonggong ends up being killed or sent into exile, usually after losing a struggle with another major deity. Gonggong is known from the late Warring States period (before 221 BCE). Gonggong appears in the ancient ""Heavenly Questions"" (""Tianwen"") poem of the ""Chu Ci"", where he is blamed for"
"the Chinese zodiacal system. The character ""Qīng"" () is composed of ""water"" () and ""azure"" (), both associated with the water element. This association would justify the Qing conquest as defeat of fire by water. The water imagery of the new name may also have had Buddhist overtones of perspicacity and enlightenment and connections with the Bodhisattva Manjusri. ""Qing"" is also the name of several rivers in Manchuria, at one of which Nurhaci won a key battle in 1619. It may also be possible to come from the Manchu name ""daicing"", which may have been derived from a Mongolian word"
"many Wu and Min languages. Indeed, Mandarin Chinese also possesses some words of Austroasiatic origin, such as the original name of the Yangtze River ""江"" (jiāng; Old Chinese *""krung"", compared to Old Vietnamese ""*krong""), which has evolved into the word for river. Min languages, which were less affected by the koine, definitely appear to possess an Austroasiatic substratum, such as a Min word for ""shaman"" or ""spirit healer"" such as in Jian’ou Min ""toŋ³"" which appears to be cognate with Vietnamese ""ʔdoŋ²"", Written Mon ""doŋ"", and Santali ""dōŋ"" which all have meanings similar to the Min word. However, Laurent Sagart"
"1636. There are competing explanations on the meaning of ""Qīng"" (lit. ""clear"" or ""pure""). The name may have been selected in reaction to the name of the Ming dynasty (), which consists of the Chinese characters for ""sun"" () and ""moon"" (), both associated with the fire element of the Chinese zodiacal system. The character ""Qīng"" () is composed of ""water"" () and ""azure"" (), both associated with the water element. This association would justify the Qing conquest as defeat of fire by water. The water imagery of the new name may also have had Buddhist overtones of perspicacity and"