金熊奖Jīnxióng Jiǎng: the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. Today let’s take a Continue Reading
The tiger is a popular theme in chinese folk art. One may encounter numerous images of tigers in almost all forms of folk art: paper-cuts, embroidery sculptre, new year prints and others. The earliest image of the tiger was Continue Reading
2500 to 3000 years ago, Zhou(周朝Zhōucháo) people lived a poetic life as described in Zhouli (Ritual of Zhou Dynasty) and Shijing (The Book of Songs, China’s first ancient poems collections). The profile and details of Zhou people, whether from archeological evidences Continue Reading
The Chinese Zodiac or Shengxiao(生肖 shēngxiào) in Pinyin(拼音 pīnyīn), is a scheme, a systematic strategy of potential action, relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, based on a 12-year mathematical cycle. It’s wide currency in a number of East Asian Continue Reading
“Cold Dews（寒露, Hánlù）” is the 17 solar term of the 24 solar terms and falls on October 8 or October 9 each year. It means that it’s colder than “White Dews（白露, Báilù）” and the dews are becoming frost. During Continue Reading
Duanwu Festival(端午节 Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Festival. It also known as Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival is quite popular among the Chinese people, every year people celebrate this festival on May 15 in lunar calendar. China attaches great Continue Reading
These are all materials for research into ancient architecture and the economic conditions of Han dynasty. Liu Sheng was a Chinese prince of the Western Han dynasty. He is most renowned now for his tomb. The Chinese imperial period began with Continue Reading
Filigree inlaid metal art（花丝镶嵌：huāsī xiānɡqiàn） is one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of Beijing. Use of the filigree-inlay process began during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), and the process flourished during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The process Continue Reading
Located in Huangfengzui(皇坟嘴Huángfénzuǐ), Yang Can’s tomb is is about 10 km north to Zunyi County of Guizhou Province. The tomb owner Yang Can’s ancestral home was Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province, who served as the propitiation official of Bozhou in the Continue Reading
As a folk art with a long tradition, Embroidery（刺绣：cì xiù） occupies an important position in the history of Chinese arts and crafts. It is, in its long development, inseparable from silkworm-raising and silk-reeling and weaving. 5000 years ago Silkworms Continue Reading
