Chinese Culture & History

    Calligraphy in China

    Calligraphy(书法shūfǎ)is very famous in China. In the history of Chinese art, calligraphy has always been held in equal importance to painting. Great attention is also paid today to its development by holding exhibitions of ancient and contemporary works and by Continue Reading

    The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Lu Ji 二十四孝:陆绩

    As one of the cores of Chinese culture, “filiality” is not only the moral code for maintaining family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, but also the traditional virtue of Chinese Nation. AYuan-dynasty(元朝Yuáncháo) writerGuo Jujing(郭居敬Guō Jūjìng) compiled Continue Reading

    The Winter Solstice 冬至

    Winter Solstice(冬至 dōngzhì), lunar new year in China is a very important solarterms, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation.As early as the Spring and Autumn Period of two thousand five hundred years ago, China has usedTugui(土圭 Tǔguī) Continue Reading

    HK Festival: the Hungry Ghost Festival

    In neighbourhoods across Hong Kong, during this month you’ll see Chiu Chow people occupying parks, piazzas, pitches and other sufficiently spacious places to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and the wandering ghosts, burning incense and joss paper, distributing free Continue Reading

    Changyang Man

    Man have asked this question again and again-where do we come from? We search provements to find the answer. When this goes to the birth of Chinese nation, you will never miss Changyang Man Site. Changyang Man(长阳人 Chángyáng rén) Continue Reading

    About the Four Treasures of The Study

    In the various tools of the calligraphy, writing brush is peculiar to China. The brushes are varied, and white goat’s hair, black rabbit’s hair and yellow weasel’s hair are three major types. On the basis of the function of Continue Reading

    HK Festival: The Seven Sisters Festival

    The festival is traditionally celebrated with needlework competitions, the burning of incense and young women making offerings to the lovesick goddess weaver and her cowherd beau. But in Hong Kong, some young romantics make additional offerings at Lovers’ Rock Continue Reading

    Choose a good Girl’s Name is very important

    A key word for a Chinese Girl’s name is “culture”. Because the name excluding the family name which is composed by one or two character, seldom more than two characters, parents or grandparents always want it be significant. Continue Reading

    About the origin of the Chinese script

    Though pictographs and associative compounds indicate the meanings of characters by their forms, yet neither of the two categories gives any hint as to pronunciation. The pictophonetic method was developed to create new characters by combining one element indicating Continue Reading

    Interior Painting in Snuff Bottles

    Snuff bottles are small in size, no more than 6-7 cm high and 4-5 cm wide, yet the accomplished artist can produce, on the limited space of the internal surfaces, any subject on the whole gamut of traditional Chinese Continue Reading