The Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节
The Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the traditional and popupar Chinese festivals, is held on 15th day of eighth month in lunar month. This festival is to commemorate the Chang E (嫦娥 Cháng’é). It’s a fairy maiden in Chinese ancient legend. The moon on this day is…
Seals in China
Seals cut as works of art should excel in three aspects– calligraphy, composition and the graver’s handwork. The artist must be good at writing various styles of the Chinese…
About the Traditional Chinese Painting
As a kind of important part of the country’s cultural heritage, the traditional Chinese painting(中国国画zhōngguó guóhuà) is distinguished from Western art in that it is executed on xuan paper (or…
The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Jiang Ge 二十四孝：江革
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…
Oracle Inscriptions in China
Later on, the area around Anyang became dry, and tortoises grew scarce, so people began to use bamboo strips instead for divination. From this grew the practice of asking…
