There are lots of traditional ways to celebrate Qixi, but tonight, you can take your other half star-gazing and impress them with your knowledge of the legend and Chinese astronomy as a whole!  Read More

   Furious, the cat pounced on the rat. Knowing that it was his fault, the rat had to escape. From then on, all the cats will chase the rats and the rats have no choice Read More

   In this way, the 12 shichen and animals are matched and sequenced: zi rat, chou ox, yin tiger, mao hare, chen dragon, si snake, wu horse, wei sheep, shen monkey, you rooster, xu Read More

   意思 yìsi 1.【meaning;i dea】意义;道理。  例如：不要误会我的意思 Please don’t misunderstand what I mean.2.【intention; wish; desir】意图;用意。  例如：文章的中心意思 the key intention of this article3.【a token of affection, appreciation, etc.】略表心意。  例如：这点东西送给您,小意思,别客气 This is a small token for you. Read More

   如今，东台的发绣艺人们创新手法，变双钩为晕色，开发出双面发绣和双面异色绣，使得发绣作品的表现力更为丰富。    Dongtai in Jiangsu Province is well-known both domestically and internationally for its unique hair embroidery. Hair embroidery is made with different stitch techniques (pinning, cutting, winding and rolling needle) by using Read More

   The I Ching (Wade-Giles) or “Yì Jīng” (pinyin), also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes or Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The text of the I Read More

   撒拉族婚礼仪式在清乾隆年间编撰的《循化志》一书中有较为详细的记载，二百多年来，整个婚礼仪式程序未有太大的变化，传承体系较为完备，对研究撒拉族文化史有重要价值。     Wedding ceremony is the most important event of Salar people in their whole life. It takes place in the high time of winter and goes through, in about half a Read More

   Children basically call their parents mother and father, and grand parents grand father and grand mother – here again differentiating between grand parents from the either side of the family. And, because the Read More

   现在的传承人是苏州的钱小萍。    Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the Read More

   近年来，由于生活方式的改变和外来文化的影响，年轻人多不愿投身这一学习周期长、见效慢的传统行业，现在的艺人多在60岁左右，有人亡技失之忧，迫切需要有关方面予以重视和扶持。    Dehua porcelain sculpture firing and manufacturing skills are excellent in the world.Now the inheritor is Su Qinghe. 福建的德化瓷雕塑烧制技艺高超。现在的传承人是苏清河。 Dehua County is located at the central part of Fujian Province. Dehua porcelain Read More