The Chinese Lantern Festival(元宵佳节Yuánxiāo jiājié) has many names. It is also known as Shang Yuan Festival, or the Little New Year, as it marks the end of the celebrations stemming from the Chinese New Year(春节Chūnjié). The Lantern Festival takes place on Continue Reading
The game called jirang (literally, “hitting the soil”), which is recorded in ancient books, was popular some four or five thousand years ago. A kind of throwing exercise in which a player had to hit a target on the Continue Reading
Some Liu Ye Dao had angular, squared hilts and pommel fittings. The round ones became more popular in the later Qing. During the Ming and Qing dynasties(清朝Qīngcháo) of China, the willow leaf sabre was used for the cavalry, and then Continue Reading
According to Daphne Li, manager of Chuan Spa at The Langham,Xintiandi,Shanghai hotel, more guests answers correlate with the “metal” category in autumn,which indicates need to nourish the lungs. After big holidays when there is lots of eating,customers answers generally Continue Reading
Would the advice from American mothers be significantly different? Does culture have a major impact on the way children are raised? How are traditions regarding pregnancy and childbirth different in the East compared with the West? How different are Continue Reading
Try a day spa – some professional Yoga clubs offer meditation techniques, hypnotherapy and guided visualization to help relieve stress, create deep relaxation and focus your mind toward attracting wealth, love, creativity, motivation, and inner peace. Face Continue Reading
These techniques are beauty clues and are widely used today. SPA is the acronym(a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name) for the Greek phrase Solus Par Aqua meaning ‘water of health’. The word ‘spa’ may Continue Reading
Developed from remote antiquity, the splendid and colorful living context of that time is vividly presented in these unique and interesting customs of circulated festivals. Most traditional Chinese festivals took shape during Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and Continue Reading
With particularly favorable natural conditions, Chengdu of Sichuan Province has been being home of pandas. Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, which is equipped with world-class facilities for pandas, is so far the biggest and most renowned panda Continue Reading
Used as medicine at the very beginning and then cooked with other food as diet, tea was not made by soaking tea-leaves with hot water until Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), which is the most common way of making tea in Continue Reading
