China, a long and profound history country, has drawn more attention from the world. Learning Chinese culture also arise more and more people’s interests. Here let us study some knowledge of China together. China commonly known as The People’s [...]
One of the highlights of Chinese New Year are firecrackers that beautifully light up the sky. Families also enjoy the deafening pop-pop-pops of the firecrackers. Firecrackers are called “pau jeun” in Chinese, meaning exploding bamboo. Pau jeun are burned at home, for work, or for public displays. Firecrackers are used for worship [...]
I’m not Chinese, I don’t live in China and I don’t talk Chinese. So why am I so passionate about importing China mobile phone wholesalersfrom China? It’s amazing how China has its doors now opened to international companies and how it has tried to expand its companies outside. One of its corporations even [...]
A martial art and health regime with an underlying Daoist philosophy, taiji (often written as tai chi) is practiced by millions of people in China and around the world. It is characterized by slow, fluid, and graceful movements, which conform to the Daoist notion of naturalism.
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In China the art is seen as [...]
A new 12-year cycle started at Feb 7, 2008 with the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese calendar. This important cycle (or era) ends at Feb 5, 2019. It is a 12-year period generally ruled by the universal element of Earth. There are also other elements which rule over each [...]
Among car enthusiasts are those to whom so-called vintage cars are a mechanical and historical work of art, yet these vehicles are no more than one hundred years old. Compared with the truly ancient horse-drawn conveyance, they are “modern”.
Two-thousand-year-old horse-drawn carriages are not, however, the oldest Chinese vehicles. In Henan’s Anyang ruins, [...]
According to Wikipedia, a calendar is a structure for identifying certain periods of time and days. It is often a physical device to remind the user of events and appointments. The very common and visible calendars are often made of paper. But with the advent of digital technology, calendars nowadays are already [...]
THE POINT IS JUST THAT I DON’T SEE THE POINTThe point is just that I don’t see the point:However much one wants to be turned on,Ecstasy can put things out of joint;Yearning is for what will soon be gone. Each can choose content or discontent;All are happy, if they would be so. Revelation isn’t Heaven [...]
or, possibly, tall and thin or shaped like a cat. Teapots are for more than holding tea Tea is one of the world’s oldest beverages and, after water, its most popular. Legend has it that the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovered the brew 5,000 years ago when tea leaves blew into a pot [...]
The cup runneth over for Ewen Bell as he explores the intricacies and ceremonies of the world’s favourite drink, from oolong and medicinal leaves to a pot of Iron Buddha’There’s a Chinese legend about getting drunk from drinking too much tea, but I’d need a bigger cup before that happens’WHERE but Hong Kong can you [...]