The Most Ancient of the Physician in China
5 november 2013
Bian Que, also named Qin Yueren from Renqiu in Hebei Province, was the most ancient of the physician from the historical period (c. 500 BC). He was reputed to be an excellent diagnostician, excelling in..
Ontdek meerKirgiz’s Wedding
5 november 2013
The grand Kirgiz wedding ceremony consists of two steps: engagement and wedding. At the engagement, the boy’s family carries gift to the girl’s home on horseback, with some pure white cotton on the horse head..
Ontdek meerIntroduction to Xi’an(Ⅱ)
5 november 2013
Xi’an’s Forest of Stone Tablets Museum, located on Shuyuanmen Avenue, and has been called China’s largest stele archive. It contains more than 11,000 cultural articrafts such as steles, engravings and sculptures from the Han and..
Ontdek meerShenzhen: Impossible is nothing
4 november 2013
In 2007, Shenzhen became the first city in China to have a per-capital income exceeding 10,000 dollars. During the 1980s Shenzhen was transformed by the Chinese government from a small fishing village in the southern..
Ontdek meer低调dīdiào and 高调gāo diào
4 november 2013
In the Chinese language, “低” and “高” is a pair of antonym which mean “low” and “high” respectively. And “调” means “tune, tone” and so on. So you know that “低调dīdiào” means “low-key” and “高调gāo..
Ontdek meerChinese wedding preparations: The chamber pot
4 november 2013
The chamber pot could not be carried on the dowry table. It is called “happy pot” or “offspring pot” to express good wishes to the couple and their children. Inside it people often put some..
Ontdek meerCulture in Chinese plants: peony (牡丹mǔ dān)
4 november 2013
Peony is a famous flowering plant in China. It is elegant, brightly colored, and of great variety, thus known as “the First in Tens of Thousands of Flowers”. The Peony is native to the Qinling..
Ontdek meerIn the Ming Dynasty, it was popular to make sacrifice to the moon. The Ming Shi Zong sent the officials to build the Xi Yue altar which is the Yue altar Park in Beijing now…
Ontdek meerThe Zhou Yi we usually talking about have the differences in narrow sense and broad sense. The narrow one refers to Yijing completed between Shang and Zhou Dynasty. While the broad one includes Yizhuan besides..
Ontdek meerSince the foreign students who study Chinese in China have learnt some information about the primitive society, you may general knowledge of it know. According to the archaeologists’ survey about the relics in the primitive..
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