Chinese Culture & History

    Dragon and Tiger in folk art

    The tiger is a popular theme in chinese folk art. One may encounter numerous images of tigers in almost all forms of folk art: paper-cuts, embroidery sculptre, new year prints and others.The earliest image of the tiger was discovered in Continue Reading

    About the Capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty

    2500 to 3000 years ago,Zhou(周朝Zhōucháo) people lived a poetic life as described in Zhouli (Ritual of Zhou Dynasty) and Shijing (The Book of Songs, China’s first ancient poems collections). The profile anddetails of Zhou people, whether from archeological evidences Continue Reading

    Find your Chinese Zodiac 找出你的生肖

    The Chinese Zodiac orShengxiao(生肖 shēngxiào) inPinyin(拼音 pīnyīn), is a scheme, a systematic strategy of potential action,relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, based on a 12-year mathematical cycle. It’s wide currency in a number of East Asian Continue Reading

    24 Solar Term: Cold Dew 寒露

    “Cold Dews(寒露,Hánlù)” is the 17 solar term of the 24 solar terms and falls on October 8 or October 9 each year. It means that it’s colder than “White Dews(白露,Báilù)” and the dews are becoming frost. During Continue Reading

    The Duanwu Festival 端午节

    Duanwu Festival(端午节 Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Festival. Italso known as Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival is quite popular among the Chinese people, every year people celebrate this festival on May 15 in lunar calendar. China attaches great Continue Reading

    Tomb of Liu Sheng刘胜墓

    These are all materials for research into ancient architecture and the economic conditionsofHan dynasty. Liu Sheng was a Chinese prince of the Western Han dynasty.He is most renowned now for his tomb. The Chinese imperial period began with Continue Reading

    Filigree Inlaid Metal Art 花丝镶嵌

    Filigree inlaid metal art(花丝镶嵌:huāsī xiānɡqiàn)is one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of Beijing. Use of the filigree-inlay process began during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), and the process flourished during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The process Continue Reading

    Yang Can’s tomb杨粲墓

    Located in Huangfengzui(皇坟嘴Huángfénzuǐ),Yang Can’s tomb isis about 10 km north to Zunyi County of Guizhou Province. The tomb owner Yang Can’s ancestral home was Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province, who served as the propitiation official of Bozhou in the Continue Reading

    Embroidery in China 刺绣

    As a folk art with a long tradition,Embroidery(刺绣:cì xiù)occupies an important position in the history of Chinese arts and crafts. It is, in its long development, inseparable from silkworm-raising and silk-reeling and weaving. 5000 years ago Silkworms Continue Reading

    The Appearance and Development of Primitive Tribes

    The New Stone Age was featured by the primitive agriculture and livestock husbandry and was mainly marked by the polishing stone wares and crockery. The emergence of the primitive agriculture and livestock has the epoch-making significance as the greatest Continue Reading