Kun Opera originated in Kunshan during the Yuan Dynasty and flourished in Suzhou where the people went absolutely crazy over the opera. In the 200 years of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the people of Suzhou held annual musical concerts at Tiger Hill Park. These celebrations of the Kun Opera were held at the time […]
Even after the wedding day had been chosen, it might still undergo unexpected changes. For example, if a family member died during the engagement period. The wedding would be postponed. One reason was to show respect for the dead; the other was to avoid being affected by this unlucky event. There were occasions when the […]
Drungs have two meals a day by convention. They have “chaomian” or roasted potato as breakfast and corn as supper with something convenient to appease hunger at noon. They have many ways to make food with corn. They may roast corn directly in the firepot and eat the grains peeled down. This method is simple […]
Integration of the feng-shui stories The mathematical demonstration of the Yellow River Chart and the Luo River Chart The ancient feng-shui theory gave rise to the mystery of “The Book of Chnages”, and some ideas derived from the development of the theory of changes were added to the feng-shui theory. The Yellow River Chart and […]
In Chinese culture, there are many legends about fengshui. In order to live and work in peace and contentment, the primitives were encouraged to practice choosing the living places and building the houses continuously. The instinct opinion about fengshui began to be put into the practice naturally. What’s more, it reacted against the new practice. […]
The development of primitive men is always the mystery in Chinese culture for the archeologists or even the foreign students who study Chinese in China. The primitive men’s conditions have made future progress in the later age. Thus, the scholars named them as “archaic Homo sapiens” or “the ancients”. And they lived in during the […]
The foreign students who start to learn Chinese in China could start to learn Chinese culture with the story from Zhou Dynasty. These interesting stories often encourage the foreigners to study Chinese in China and it occurred to them that to understand the Chinese culture, those stories about reform of regulation play an important role. […]
The origin of Chinese is a combination of various art forms ranging from the folk dance, comic drama, arts of talking and singing, therefore, for students to learn Chinese in China the exact date of the origin of traditional Chinese opera is untraceable, due to the long process of the formation period of traditional Chinese […]
Friends who’d like to study Mandarin in China may discover that the poetry of the Tang Dynasty represents the highest level of the literature of the Tang Dynasty, therefore, can be considered to be the symbol of that period. Friends who’d like to learn Chinese in China may also discover that the “Quán táng shī” […]
The Taoism is well-known by those who are interested in Chinese culture and are waiting to come to learn Chinese in China to be an indigenous religion in China, and it had attracted multitudinous followers through thousand years of development. It is understandable that the Taoist disciples are from different walks of life of varied […]