Oct 10 marked the 90th anniversary of the Beijing Palace Museum's founding. Besides opening four new sections to tourists this month - mainly the Cining Gong, the Cining Gong garden and the Shoukang Gong - the museum is holding a series of ...
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The tools used by self-dressing women to coil their hair into a bun In Zhaoqing City of South China's Guangdong Province, the smell of opening-up and reform can be felt here and there with the newly built western-style buildings, ...
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The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement was a movement promoted in Taiwan to undo the cultural destructions caused by the Communist Party of China. Some notable acts of destruction include Cultural ...
Rapid development attracted a lot of peopler become the stationery manufacturers.With the development of economy,station market has been gradually developed.It determines there will be verious kind of stationery in China market.The changing ...
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The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories, and/or ...
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As a country that pays great attention to courtesy, our cuisine culture is deep rooted in China's history. As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home or restaurant you will find that table manners are essential and the distinctive ...
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When the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 330 degrees, the solar term of “The Rains” arrives. “The Rains” indicates that as the weather gets warmer, the amount of rainfall increases, at the same time the form ...
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Xianxiao (literally, virtue and filial piety) is a folk singing-and-story-telling art form accompanied by sanxian (a three-stringed plucked instrument). In terms of region, it can be classified into Liangzhou Xianxiao and Hezhou Xianxiao. ...
Caring for Parents Marriage in the Chinese culture signifies who will care for elderly parents when the need arises. Daughters marry "out of the family" and become part of their husband's family, while sons remain within the original ...
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Costume of the Hui ethnic minority distinguishes itself from others chiefly by the head part. In areas inhabited by the Hui people, men usually wear a round brimless white cap. According to some scholars, it is for the convenience ...
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Mulian Opera got its name from a play named Mulian Rescues His Mother. As the oldest theatric genre, it can be called the ancestor of dramas. Mulian Opera is a theatric performance which is preserved in folk conventional activities. Its ...
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The Hungry Ghost Festival of Chinese Taoism is also the Ullambana Festival of Buddhism. Commonly called "Ghost Festival" or "Mid-July Festival", it falls on the fifteenth of every lunar July. In ancient Chinese folk culture, people ...
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