Later on, the area around Anyang became dry, and tortoises grew scarce, so people began to use bamboo strips instead for divination. From this grew the practice of asking the gods about the future by drawing bamboo sticks, as Continue Reading
Calligraphy(书法shūfǎ)is very famous in China. In the history of Chinese art, calligraphy has always been held in equal importance to painting. Great attention is also paid today to its development by holding exhibitions of ancient and contemporary works and Continue Reading
As one of the cores of Chinese culture, “filiality” is not only the moral code for maintaining family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, but also the traditional virtue of Chinese Nation. A Yuan-dynasty(元朝Yuáncháo) writer Guo Jujing(郭居敬Guō Jūjìng) compiled Continue Reading
Winter Solstice(冬至 dōngzhì), lunar new year in China is a very important solar terms, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period of two thousand five hundred years ago, China has used Tugui(土圭 Tǔguī) Continue Reading
In neighbourhoods across Hong Kong, during this month you’ll see Chiu Chow people occupying parks, piazzas, pitches and other sufficiently spacious places to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and the wandering ghosts, burning incense and joss paper, distributing free Continue Reading
Man have asked this question again and again-where do we come from? We search provements to find the answer. When this goes to the birth of Chinese nation, you will never miss Changyang Man Site. Changyang Man（长阳人 Chángyáng rén） Continue Reading
In the various tools of the calligraphy, writing brush is peculiar to China. The brushes are varied, and white goat’s hair, black rabbit’s hair and yellow weasel’s hair are three major types. On the basis of the function of Continue Reading
The festival is traditionally celebrated with needlework competitions, the burning of incense and young women making offerings to the lovesick goddess weaver and her cowherd beau. But in Hong Kong, some young romantics make additional offerings at Lovers’ Rock Continue Reading
A key word for a Chinese Girl’s name is “culture”. Because the name excluding the family name which is composed by one or two character, seldom more than two characters, parents or grandparents always want it be significant. Continue Reading
Though pictographs and associative compounds indicate the meanings of characters by their forms, yet neither of the two categories gives any hint as to pronunciation. The pictophonetic method was developed to create new characters by combining one element indicating Continue Reading
