Last we looked at the things we liked least about living in China. Because we’re big believers in positivity and being both fair and balanced we’re looking this week at the things we like most about living in China. Continue Reading

   Although smoking is becoming less and less popular around the world, it looks like it’ll have a place in Chinese society for years to come. Tobacco farmers are happy to have a consistent buyer in the China National Tobacco Continue Reading

   Anciently, the Figure of the God of Kitchen was usually pasted on the wall of the small wind box. The picture of the God of Kitchen, known as the Officer of the East Kitchen, which is still worshiped by Continue Reading

   Arriving at home, he knew that nothing happened at home but his daughter missed him. The horse understood human’s emotion and carried the father hack. The father treated the horse very well for its smartness. However, whatever the father Continue Reading

   Later, Yaoji gradually became a mountain peak, namely, the famous Goddess Peak of Wu Mountain. Her maids accompanying her then became the peaks of various heights, thus forming the present-day twelve peaks of the Wu Mountain. Waves leaping and Continue Reading

   In the Song Dynasty, the Tai Sui Star was personified and transformed from an imaginary star to a god. In the Ming Dynasty, the belief in Tai Sui was recognized by the ruling regime and sacrificial altars were especially Continue Reading

   The Classic of Odes is the first poem collection covering 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC – 711 BC) to the middle Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC – 476 BC). As the starting Continue Reading

   Although it had no relationship originally with family background, the ‘Zhongzheng’ was himself invariably a member of the upper classes and he would often show partiality to families of dignitaries and other upper class people. Thus the disadvantages gradually Continue Reading

   Till the Han Dynasty (206BC – 220), the place of bronze vessels was substituted for those of jade, pottery, and iron. Afterwards, bronze was mostly used for mirrors in various shapes and patterns, although the inscriptions on them are Continue Reading

   Tremendous varieties of vessel shapes, lustrous glaze colors and wonderful decoration designs of that period were conformative evidence. Famous brands included white Dehua wares from Fujian Province, Yixing Zisha(boccaro) wares from Jiangsu Province, and white Zhangzhou wares from Fujian Continue Reading