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'Elephant Chess' and Persian loanwords in Chinese

照貓畫虎 Using a cat to draw a tiger

冤 yuān

家 jiā

買(买)mǎi

Sketchy friends 狐朋狗友

彖 tuàn

Licking aphids

Aoguang, Dragon King of the Eastern Ocean

Botanical Chinese

Ladybirds and harlequins

At the market

Evolution of the 'dragon' character (龙字)

Dance like the phoenix, sing like the luan

Pet dragons

Chinese proverb: Bole judges a horse

Obscure horse-radical characters

Appearance on Uncles’ Restaurant, Jiangsu TV

Feng Zikai award and book

Chinese written scripts