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 Delaware origin, even though they were recorded in traditional Munsee territory in the greater New York area. For example, the Pidgin word "cacheus" 'crazy, drunk' was recorded from an Esopus sachem on the Hudson River in 1658; this word is from Unami "kí·wsu" 'he is drunk'. The corresponding Munsee word is the completely different "waní·sə̆məw" Similarly, the Pidgin expression "rancontyn marinit", also recorded as "rancontyn marenit" 'make peace' was recalled by David de Vries as having been used by Delawares near Lewes, Delaware in 1632, and also near Rockaway, Long Island in 1643, the latter being in Munsee territory. The Pidgin