Wind chime Japanese glass wind bells known as "fūrin" () have been produced since the Edo period, and those at Mizusawa Station are one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Wind chimes are thought to be good luck in parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. Wind chimes started to become modernized around 1100 B.C. after the Chinese began to cast bells. A bell without a clapper, called a "yong-zhong", was crafted by skilled metal artisans and primarily used in religious ceremonies. Afterwards, the Chinese created the "feng-ling", which is similar to today's modern wind bell. Feng-lings were hung from
Chinese encyclopedia canon; allusion; dictionary; encyclopedia" occurs in compounds such as "zìdiǎn" 字典 "character dictionary; lexicon", "cídiǎn" 辭典 "word/phrase dictionary; encyclopedia", "dàdiǎn" 大典 "collection of great classics; big dictionary"; and titles such as the 801 "Tongdian" ("Comprehensive Encyclopedia") and 1408 "Yongle Dadian" ("Yongle Emperor's Encyclopedia"). "Lèishū" 類書 (lit. "category book") "reference work arranged by category; encyclopedia" is commonly translated as "traditional Chinese encyclopedia", but they differ from modern encyclopedias in that they are compendia composed of selected and categorically arranged quotations from Chinese classics, "the name encyclopedia having been applied to them because they embrace the whole realm of knowledge" (Teng and