There was a poor man who did not drink. Before he went out each day, he would eat only two grain cakes, which invariably made him slightly tipsy. One day he met a friend who asked him: “Did you have a cup of wine this morning?” “Oh, no,” replied the man. “I only had some […]
In Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province, after a daughter was born, her parents would brew wine with polished glutinous rice and refined malt. After the wine was made, they would store the wine in several jars and ask skillful painters to paint or carve on the jars designs of hills, waters, flowers, birds, pavilions, towers, buildings […]
There was a henpecked official who one day got an ugly scratch from his better half. The next day, when he presented himself at the yamen, the Perfect saw the mark on his face and inquired what had happened to him. The official prevaricated: “I was enjoying the cool last night under the grape trellis […]
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of Lunar New Year in May which was called as “重五” in ancient times. It was named as the way of “重九” which is the ninth day of Lunar New Year in September. What’s more, it is also called as “端午” or “端阳” which is one the three […]
The nest house, carved house, half caved house and so on are the reflection of the primitives’ history in the mountains. In Chinese culture, the concept that the mountain can produce plenty Qi and accumulate the Qi firmly in the sense of blessing has improved the shape of mountain to be a basic feature in […]
Xia Dynasty is the beginning of Chinese feudalism and created bright feudal Chinese culture in the long history. Some students of learning Chinese in China are quite interested in the Chinese culture in this period. They started a research on the history of this dynasty. Recent days, students who are studying Chinese in China took […]
For the average family, no matter the Chinese family who are deeply affected by the Chinese culture or that start to study Chinese in China, it is habituated to choose the tinned tea or the loose-leaf tea when they are shopping for tea. After shopping home, the tea could not be finished at once, especially […]
Literature is the reflection of social life as other styles of literature do, which was determined by the conditions of the material production system, the conditions of mentality as well as the independent development of the social awareness. It’s to be made clear for people who’d like to study Chinese in China that the arising […]
The kites were invented by the Chinese people about two thousand years ago, it was probably during the twelfth century that the Chinese Kites were introduced to the Western countries, and as can be predicted by those who loves kites and would like to learn Chinese in China that the kites had been under continuous […]
The first collection of the poems since the end of the Shang Dynasty the Book of Songs had taken in three hundred five pieces of poems dating from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid spring and autumn period, which makes it the earliest collection of the imperial literature and the folk […]