The summer solstice falls on June 21st or 22nd every year. It is the tenth solar term of the 24 Chinese solar terms, marking the day of the longest daytime and shortest nighttime. Starting on the summer solstice, the Continue Reading

   Formula: [Y*D+C]-L Note: Y refers to the last two numbers of a year, such as 10 in 2010, 08 in 2008 D=0.2422 L=the number of leap years 21st century C=21.37 20th century C=22.20 Example: The date of Grain Buds Continue Reading

   The day of Summer Solstice is the longest of the year. Therefore, one saying is very popular in Shaoxing City which goes, “To play, play on the day of Summer Solstice”. In ancient times, people worshipped their ancestors on Continue Reading

   The days become shorter and shorter, and temperatures higher and higher after the Summer Solstice. When the three periods of hot season come, it is the hottest time of the year.    The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Continue Reading

   The state may be small; its people may be few. Let the people have tenfold and one-houndredfold of utensils, but never make use of them. Let the people weigh death heavily and have no desires to move far away. Continue Reading

   However, word of Yingying’s beauty soon reaches Sun the Flying Tiger, a local bandit. He dispatches ruffians to surround the monastery, in the hopes of taking her as his consort. Yingying’s mother agrees that whoever drives the bandits away Continue Reading

   Shaoxing opera or Yue opera is a relatively new local Chinese opera popular in the southern regions of the Yangtze River. It originated in Shengxian County (present Shengzhou City), in the Shaoxing region of northeastern Zhejiang Province, which belonged Continue Reading

   Brick tea. Brick tea belongs to pressed tea. It is made by pressing steamed raw tea such as green tea, scented tea and old green tea in brick-shaped moulds. It is mainly produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei, Continue Reading

   Mr. Liu Hanjie, a scholar in Taiwan propose, “Tea ceremony is a method and artistic conception of drinking tea.” As a matter of fact, to define tea ceremony is a waste of time. If a definition must be determined Continue Reading

        Dongba painting, the oldest and most representative religious painting of the ancient Naxi people, is also the people’s most special and characteristic artistic legacy. Dongba painting originated from the ancient Dongba hieroglyphs  as well as from the Continue Reading