Culture & Life
Culture & Life
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Traditional Chinese Weddings Are Always Filled with Red Things to Bring Blessings
Nov 28, 2012Traditional Chinese weddings are always filled with red things to bring auspicious blessings and respects. And even wedding customs reflect traditions from Chinese philosophy. Favoring red comes from worship of the sun The Chinese ...
Tags: musical instruments, red dates, peanuts, longans and melon seeds
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Lu'an Drum Song Is a Traditional Form of Singing and Recital with Drum Accompaniment
Nov 28, 2012Lu'an Drum Song is a traditional form of singing and recital with drum accompaniment in North China. It is endowed with distinct regional features. Known as "Lu'an Hackneyed Tune", "Ganban Tone" and "Lu'an Gushu (recital with drum ...
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The Symbol of The Dragon Represents Spiraling DNA, The Path to Greater Enlightenment
Nov 28, 2012The symbol of the dragon represents spiraling DNA, the path to greater enlightenment. The Celestial Chinese Dragon is comparable as the symbol of the Chinese race itself. Chinese around the world, proudly proclaim themselves "Lung Tik ...
Tags: dragon, Chinese Dragons, Chinese Symbol, ultimate symbol
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Lolo Tone Is a Genre of Opera Prevailing in Lingqiu County
Nov 28, 2012Lolo Tone is a genre of opera prevailing in Lingqiu County and the neighboring area in Shanxi Province. Evolved from Yiyang Tone, Lolo Tone has its prime time in Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty and fell into decay in the late Qing ...
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On The Chinese New Year,Families in China Decorate Their Front Doors with Poetic Couplets
Nov 28, 2012On the Chinese New Year, families in China decorate their front doors with poetic couplets of calligraphy written with fragrant India ink, expressing the feeling of life's renewal and the return of spring. It is said that spring ...
Tags: spring couplets, fragrant India ink, calligraphic writing
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Once Upon a Time,There Was a Young Man Called Ma Liang with a Magic Paint Brush
Nov 28, 2012Once upon a time, there was a young man called Ma Liang. He was poor and kind and helped a rich man to tend cattle. He liked drawing and drew pictures everywhere. One night, he dreamed that an old man gave him a magic paintbrush and asked ...
Tags: Ma Liang, Magic Paint Brush, Paint Brush
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The Tajik Sing in Antiphonal Style Between Young People in The Expansive Grassland
Nov 28, 2012Within the ancient Tajik ethnic group, who lead a semi-nomadic life, singing in antiphonal style between young people in the expansive grassland is a popular way to make friends and express love. Such tradition is passed down from ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
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Giving Hongbao (Red Packets or Red Envelopes) During The Chinese New Year Is a Tradition
Nov 28, 2012Giving Hongbao (red packets or red envelopes) during the Chinese New Year is a tradition. A red packet is simply a red envelope with gift money in it, which symbolizes luck and wealth. Red packets are typically handed out to younger ...
Tags: Hongbao, red packets, red envelopes
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Nu Ethnic Minority Group Has Some Distinctive Marriage Customs
Nov 28, 2012Nu Ethnic Minority Group, which has a long history and mainly inhabits Yunnan Province, Southwest China, has some distinctive marriage customs. Just like the ballad goes, "the auntie's daughter doesn't yield to others", the mother's brother ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
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Hoomei Is a Kind of Miraculous Singing Art Created by The Mongolian People
Nov 28, 2012Hoomei(Humai) is a kind of miraculous singing art created by the Mongolian people. It is featured by one singer's singing of two voice parts simultaneously with his own vocal organs. Basic structure of voice-part relation in Humai is the ...
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The Girls Meeting Is a Traditional Festival in Tu Minority Group
Nov 28, 2012The Girls Meeting is a traditional festival in Tu minority group. It falls on the day between the seventh day to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is a festival formed spontaneously by the young women and men in ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
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An Ancient Chinese Legend Tells of a Man-Eating Predatory Beast Called Nian
Nov 28, 2012An ancient Chinese legend tells of a man-eating predatory beast called Nian, extremely fierce, with a long head and sharp horn. Nian dwelled deep in the sea the whole year long, but on every Chinese New Year eve it would climb onto the ...
Tags: Chinese legend, Chinese New Year, Nian, Chinese New Year's Eve
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One Would Normally Agree That Eggs and Naming Babies Have Nothing to Do with Each Other
Nov 28, 2012One would normally agree that eggs and naming babies have nothing to do with each other. In China, however, there is a very significant reason for relating these two things with each other. This is the baby naming ceremony, also called a ...
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Changbai Mountain in The Southeast of Jilin Province Is The Manchu
Nov 28, 2012Changbai Mountain in the southeast of Jilin Province is the Manchu.cradle of the It was on this boundless, beautiful and mysterious fertile land that the Manchu forefathers lived and multiplied since time immemorial. The Manchu Shuobu is a ...
Tags: Shuobu, The Manchu Minority, custom
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Ferghana Horse Is One of China's Earliest Major Imports
Nov 28, 2012Ferghana horse, also called sweats blood horse in Chinese, is one of China's earliest major imports. It is native to Turkmenistan and during Han Dynasty (25AD-220AD), it was brought back to China by Zhang Qian's diplomatic mission. Since ...
Tags: Ferghana horse, sweats blood horse, horses, horse from heaven
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