Equestrian polo was a national spot in the Tang Dynasty. There were enthusiastic fans in all the social ranks, from the emperor to the ordinary people. Some players entered the officialdom because of their excellent performances. A son-in-law was selected according to his skill in playing the equestrian polo. There are a lot of examples […]
A matchmaker is important in three ways. Firstly, as Confucianism gradually attained a dominant position in social ideology, people began to impose heavy instructions on the contacts between unmarried men and women. Since parents wished to arrange their children’s marriages based on comparable conditions in social status, physical appearance and betrothal gifts/dowry, a matchmaker would […]
More than 15 dynaties have made Luoyang their capital city over the past 5000 years. If you want to relieve the glory of those ancient dynasties, you can go to Luoyang during the month of April and observe the blossoming peonies. The peony has been known as the “king of flowers” ever since Tang Dynasty. […]
The Spring Festival just passed, Chinese mainland is still full of the happy atmosphere of new year everywhere and people’s mood to enjoy is still strong. In the evening of the fifteenth day of January lunar calendar, a bright full moon rises up in the sky and the Chinese ground is as brightly lit as […]
The nutrition taking of thousands of years’ Chinese culture of choosing places to live in from savagery to Shang and Zhou Dynasties by Zhou Yi is far beyond the aspects of practice conclusion, essential factors summing up and good or ill luck proving. From living in caves of mountains, looking for and building up happy […]
If you study Chinese in China and learn the Feng Shui culture with our articles, you may have known the importance of gate to the Feng Shui. Besides the gate, the center and the kitchen of the house have significance to the fate of house in Feng Shui in Chinese culture. And we will introduce […]
Some students who learn Mandarin in China wanted to learn something about the ancient Chinese agriculture so that they selected the Chinese culture course. The teacher of the course told them the ancient land system and the agriculture production situation of Zhou Dynasty which interested the students who study Mandarin in China very much. They […]
Opening the pages of the annals of music, the first topic coming up would be the origin of music, however, as to the origin of music, numerous versions of answers have been given which makes us feel confused, for some versions even attaches certain hues of mysticism with them. I think it is also true […]
As has had been learned by friends who’d like to learn Chinese in China that there are four traditional diagnostic methods in the Chinese medication system, which were the inspection, auscultation-olfaction, the interrogation method and palpation method. And whenever talking about the traditional Chinese medication, what came into people’s mind is the palpations of the […]
The Baotu hot spring got the name during the Song Dynasty, the Hot-spring city Jinan enjoys four groups of the fountains, namely the Baotu hot spring, the Heihu spring, the Pearl spring, and with the Baotu spring tops all of the seventy seven hot springs of Jinan city, it is noteworthy for readers who’d love […]