Chinese medicinal materials include plants and minerals, animals and insects. Since plants made up the largest category, Chinese medicine in ancient times was referred to as “herbal medicine.” For this reason, some Chinese Read More

   Herbal plaster originated in China a long time ago and is one of five types of traditional Chinese medicine. People at first applied the oil of animals such as goats or pigs, to Read More

   Besides the regular days off (Saturday and Sunday), Chinese people also enjoy the holidays of Spring Festival, Qing Ming Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Day, Mid-Autumn Day, National Day, and New Year’s Day. Read More

   Picture taken on May 1, 2012 shows folk Tibetan Opera team from Niangre village performing traditional Tibetan Opera in Norbulingka in Tibet. Tibetan Opera, also called “the living fossil of Tibet culture”, is Read More

   In other places, people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour. The Winter Solstice rice dumplings can be used as sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts Read More

After a month of online voting, expert judging and online squabbling, China’s “Character of the Year” was finally selected, and, ironically enough, it was a character with no concrete meaning at all: 被(bèi). On Read More

   手工艺shǒu gōng yì：handicraft art     Niē miànrén shì zhōngguó chuántǒng de mínjiān shǒugōng yì, céngjīng guǎngfàn de zài quánguó gèdì liúchuán, tèbié bèi háizǐ men suǒ xǐ’ài.捏面人是中国传统的民间手工艺，曾经广泛的在全国各地流传，特别被孩子们所喜爱。 Dough Figurine, a traditional Chinese Read More

   Several popular brands of bottled water, such as Wa Ha Ha, Nestle and Nongfu Spring, are available for purchase, while bottled tea and juice are also popular. Ordinary bottled mineral water and various Read More

In Chinese culture, certain numbers are considered “lucky” because their pronunciations sound similar to words that have “lucky” meanings. Lucky numbers are very important in Chinese culture. People select lucky numbers when choosing residences, Read More