Chinese Culture: Chinese Couplet (对联)
Couplet (对联 duì lián) is a pair of antithetical phrases (sometime added a horizontal hung phrase) written on papers, silks hung on the columns of halls or just engraved on the columns, with concise characters but rich and deep connotations.…
Chinese Language 中国的语言
The Han people have their own spoken and written languages, namely Chinese. It is the most commonly used language in China, and one of the most commonly used languages…
Ethnic Minorities in China 中国的少数民族
China officially registers 56 ethnic groups. The ethnic Chinese, known as the Han Chinese, compose 93 percent of the population. Han Chinese speak seven languages, with Mandarin or Putonghua…
Puer Tea 普洱茶
Pu-erh（普洱，Pǔ’ěr）, Pu’er tea, Puer tea or Bolay tea is a type of tea made from a “large leaf” variety of the tea plant Camellia sinensis and named after Pu’er…
Jiangzhai Site in Shaanxi
The two major aspects of social structure in the Neolithic Age are monogamy replacing polygamy and other forms of clan mating, and people organizing from small groups to a…
