The Pingyao Ancient Town has been called “Turtle City” since ancient times, which does not because of the meaning of turtle (living for long and strongly fortified), but also because of the form and structure of the city wall. Continue Reading

   Bi Wengang, deputy director of the China Pharmaceutical Culture Society, says the herb works on three channels of energy – the stomach, the lungs, and the kidneys. At the same time, it has very light side effects and benefits Continue Reading

   Effect: This tea removes pathogenic(a pathogenic organism can cause disease in a person, animal, or plant) heat from the blood and moisturizes the skin.      Rose Honey Tea Ingredients: rose petals, black tea, a spoonful of honey, a Continue Reading

   Among the many famous doctors in the Qing Dynasty. Wang Qingren(王清任Wáng Qīngrèn) was a creative medical practitioner . He attached great importance to human body anatomy . He observed the corpses and drew illustrations himself . He was also excellent Continue Reading

   Wang is also noted for nurturing many of China’s top researchers and doctors, including Health Minister Chen Zhu who, along with his wife Chen Saijuan, were Wang’s students. Both are noted hematologists.    At 86, Wang Zhenyi(王振义Wáng Zhènyì) still makes Continue Reading

   “We may have better knowledge and more advanced equipments than Wang did, but our concern for patients and devotion to work cannot compare with Wang’s.”      Wang Zhenyi(王振义Wáng Zhènyì), whose family comes from Jiangsu(江苏Jiāngsū) Province, said he took up Continue Reading

   Sinologist Paul Unschuld maintains based on phonetic resemblances(if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar to each other) that the elusive Qibo might actually have been Hippocrates.    Qibo(岐伯Qí Bó), was a mythological(based on Continue Reading

   In the 1930s, the sport of shuttlecock kicking was in decline for a time. After the establishment of new China, it regained vitality and the first formal National Shuttlecock Kicking Competition was held in Guangzhou City in 1956. Since Continue Reading

   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