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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
