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8 Things About Cold Dew
Oct 9, 2016The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, (Chinese: HanLu), the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23. At this time, temperatures are much lower than in ...
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Culture Insider: 6 Things You May Not Know About Double Ninth Festival
Oct 28, 2015The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was ...
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'fire Walking' Ceremony Held in E China Village
Oct 27, 2015A man walks through burning charcoal as he participates in the traditional ritual "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, East China's Zhejiang province on Oct 21, 2015. Local people held the ceremony to show respects to ancestors ...
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8 Things You May Not Know About Cold Dew
Oct 8, 2015The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23. At this time, temperatures are much lower than in White Dew in most ...
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On The Double Ninth Festival, People Will Eat Double Ninth Gao
Oct 22, 2013On the Double Ninth Festival, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just to hope progress in everything they are engaged in. There is no fixed ways for ...
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China Celebrated Its First National Seniors' Day on Sunday
Oct 14, 2013China celebrated its first national Seniors' Day on Sunday. The Chinese government has made the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double-Ninth Festival, a day to honor senior citizens since 1989, but this year's Seniors' Day is the ...
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The Symbolic Serving and Drinking of Wine in Different Places Can Convey Many Meanings.
Apr 25, 2013The symbolic serving and drinking of wine on various occasions and in different places can convey many meanings. It can express either joy or sorrow. In China, there is a saying that 'a thousand cups of wine is not too much when bosom ...
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The Introduce of Maonan
Dec 5, 2012The Maonan people are brave, enterprising, and have no fear of hardships. They send their children to school no matter how hard their life is, so they can have higher education and there are a large number of intellectuals among them. ...
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There Are Mainly Three Kinds of Etiquettes in China
Dec 4, 2012There are mainly three kinds of etiquettes in China. The first category is the daily life etiquette: including meeting etiquette, introduction etiquette, conversation etiquette, banquet etiquette, reception etiquette, dance ...