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
Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Kyakhta pidgin contains several new compounds that could have been inspired by Chinese: Like most pidgins Kyakhta pidgin lacks many morphological categories - there are no cases, numbers or gender of nouns. Russian pidgins in general tend to have clear verb indications. In Kyakhta Pidgin, similarly to other Siberian pidgins, most verbs have ending -j/-i: "болей" ("to be sick"), "выгони" ("to turn out"), "захорони" ("to bury"), "гоняй" ("to drive"), "незнай" ("to be unaware"), "ругай" ("to scold"), "сади" ("to seat"). This ending makes verbs similar to the imperative form of Russian verbs: for example, "болей" is the Russian verb "болеть" ("to