Incense in China "Xiangbang" (香棒, with "stick; club") means "incense stick; joss stick". Two "incense" synonyms specifying religious offerings to ancestors or deities are "gāoxiāng" (高香, ""high incense"") and "gōngxiāng" (供香, ""offering incense""). The Sunni Muslim Hui Gedimu and the Yihewani burned incense during worship. This was viewed as Daoist or Buddhist influence. The Hui, also known as "White-capped HuiHui", used incense during worship, while the Salar, also known as "black-capped HuiHui" considered this to be a heathen ritual and denounced it. The Chinese developed a sophisticated art form with incense burning like with tea and calligraphy called xiangdao (香道). It involves various
Pidgin of the English word "business", and all attestations from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" mean 'business; an action, occupation, or affair' (the earliest being from 1807). The term "pidgin English" ("business English"), first attested in 1855, shows the term in transition to referring to language, and by the 1860s the term "pidgin" alone could refer to Pidgin English. The term was coming to be used in the more general linguistic sense represented by this article by the 1870s. A popular folk-etymology for "pidgin" is English "pigeon", a bird