Chinese wedding preparations: The lucky southeast direction
4. november 2013
Before sending the dowries to the bridegroom’s home, the bride’s family would display all the dowries in the courtyard or on the empty ground. After the display, the trousseaux would be loaded onto the dowry..
Lær mereThe Pure Brightness Festival Qing Ming
2. november 2013
Introduction The Pure Brightness Festival falls between April 4th and 6th in the Gregorian calendar and it is one of the most important and traditional festival in China. The harsh, withering winter is gone, while..
Lær mereAppreciating Chrysanthemums
2. november 2013
Drinking chrysanthemum wine Drinking chrysanthemum wine and appreciating chrysanthemum are main Chinese culture customs, too. According to a book named Xi Jing Za Ji wrote by Liu Xin of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD..
Lær mereThe Importance of the Water in Feng Shui Culture in Chinese Culture
2. november 2013
Zang Shu which was written by Guo Pu has described as “风水之法,得水为上” (It means that the water depends on the fate of the Feng Shui culture.) according to the theory of Feng Shui which is..
Lær mereThe History that Zhou crusade against Dong Yi
2. november 2013
The colorful history from Chinese culture could be a good reason to attract the foreigners to learn Chinese in China. Besides, to study Mandarin in China also provides more interesting histories from for them unexpectedly,..
Lær mereThe Downfall of the West Jin
2. november 2013
The powerful nobilities and honorable clans in power headed by the“司马Sima”Clan lead an extremely luxurious ,befuddled and debauchery life depending on their political privileges and economic affluence. The rate of the extravagancy and dissolution was..
Lær mereThe Chinese Health Liquors
2. november 2013
The word liquor is not merely an objective existence, but a symbol of the traditional culture, or of the bacchanal spirit. While for friends who are interested in Chinese and would like to study Chinese..
Lær mereThe Buddhist Phi Ta Khon Festival
2. november 2013
The Buddhist festivals are the festivals with special connotations developed with the development of the Buddhism, which had been taken down into the Buddhist scriptures. It can be seen by readers who want to learn..
Lær mereHeaven Human Correspondence Philosophy
2. november 2013
The correspondence of heaven and human beings is quite significant in Chinese ancient philosophy; the so called “Heaven-Human Correspondence” actually refers to the relationship between the human beings and the environment when you learn Chinese..
Lær mereChinese Shadow Boxing and Health Preservation
2. november 2013
Readers who are waiting to learn Chinese in China can discover that the martial arts are the Chinese traditional cultural heritage, which can be seen as the folk culture carrying more dispositions and characteristics of..
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