Over the past few years, it has become more and more common for women in the service industries, such as, restaurant hostess, grocery store clerks and waitress to tell their customers, “Don’t call me Miss”. In China, during the 1950s and 1970s, those workers were mostly called “comrade—同志tóng zhì”, which implied everyone had the same […]
The Kirgiz has a very religious festival—Nuoruz Festival, which is as lively as the Spring Festival of the Han people. During the festival, every family manages to prepare meals as sumptuous as their economic condition allows, and treats their friends and relatives to a celebration. On the dinner table, the most indispensable is the food […]
Sima Qian (145BC-90 BC) was born in Longmen, near present-day Hancheng in Shaanxi Province. His father was a historian in the court of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sima Qian inherited his father’s position and carried out his father’s unfulfilled ambition to record all known history up to that time. In 99 BC, Sima […]
According to statistics, 48.57% of Shenzhen residents state that their greatest and most frequent from if nightlife spending is barhopping. Bars have become a measure of one’s fashion and culture in this city. Most of the bars in Shenzhen have foreign themes and atmospheres. Cocktails, saxphone or guitar music, English songs, and rock and roll […]
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 […]