Yixing Bamboo Forest is located in Yixing city in Jiangsu Province. It is the 4A-level tourism spot in China and one of the famous national level scenic spots. It is listed one of the top ten scenic spot in Yixing. The scenic spot is in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces and the wide range of bamboos […]
Abbreviation: Jin 晋 Capital: Taiyuan Area: More than 150,000 square kilometers Population: 32.45 million Location: In north China and the west flank of the North China Plain Shanxi Province has a history of about 3,000 years. Its main industries include coal, metallury, machinery, and chemicals. Transportation is very convinent and it is easy access […]
Talking about the Double-Ninth Festival, a mythical legend is worth mentioning, which is about Fei Changfang, a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty. One day, an aged medicine seller came to Fei’s city, rent a small shop and opened a drug store. He hung a teapot by the door and jumped into it when […]
Wait for Heaven to encumber the enemy and make plots to allure it. When going leads to obstruction, come back. In military context, a tiger in the mountain symbolizes a strong enemy who enjoys the protection of a walled city, a fortified camp, a strategic mountain pass, or a wide, rushing water. One who commands […]
If the enemy forces are strong, try to subdue their general; if the general is wise, try to crush his willpower. When the general becomes infirm and the soldiers listless, their combat power will dwindle. It is of benefit to resist an invasion; security can be attained by internal unity. War is a continuation of […]
Since the aged are highly respected in China, the birthday celebration for them is attached with great importance. Generally birthdays over 55th are called “Shou”(longevity), especially the multiples of ten named “Zheng shou”(integer age of longevity). Men don’t celebrate 10th birthday and women don’t celebrate their 9th, because in the southern dialects the word ten […]
Lao Zi, a thinker during the late Spring and Autumn Period, had a famous saying: “Pretending not to know when you know, how superb.” He meant that it was superb tactics to pretend not to know when one in fact knows. Chinese people follow an important rule in handling complex personal relations: be intelligent about […]
ji3 suo3 bu2 yu4，wu4 shi1 yu2 ren2 己所不欲，勿施于人 Confucius held that if there was one word that could serve as a guide throughout one’s life, it should be “forgiveness.” He said: “Do not do to others what you don’t want to be done to you.” The “forgiveness” he referred to, means putting oneself in the […]
Phoenix is a legendary bird in Chinese myth. It has been regarded as the head of all birds and a symbol of auspice for thousand of years. It is said that social stability usually follows the appearance of a phoenix. The phoenix is described to have a chicken’s head, snake’s neck, swallow’s jaw, tortoise’s back […]
There is a very famous picture in China named “song he yan nian”(the pine and the crane lengthen the life), it is to wish longevity. For thousands of years, Chinese people have been fond of pine because it is evergreen, cold-resistant and long-lived. Even two thousand years ago, Confucius said that pine withers later than […]