As a rare species of wild animals exclusively existing on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, Tibetan antelope belongs to Grade I animal under state protection and is listed as an endangered species in 2 Read more »
Dragon Dance , which originated from China, are traditional Chinese folk activities and folk dance forms. Dragon Dance is also known as "Playing dragon lantern" and "Dance of dragon lantern", Read more »
Places with the Most Authentic Italian Cuisine
1 TRATTORIA Located in the five-star restaurant, it serves the most original Italian cuisine. There are bands offering the live concert, suited for inviting the foreign guests and up-class soc Read more »
Steamed crystal bunsare a traditional Chinese snack. As the wrappings are made of well-kneaded dough, the buns are small in size, with visible cream-color fillings through the oily wrappings. The bun Read more »
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were seven famous scholars who would get together in the bamboo grove for drinking wine, playing musical instruments, chanting poems and chatting. They were Ji Read more »
A word is the smallest meaningful unit in a language, and is used as the basic material to express ideas. Therefore, if you want to learn Chinese and be skilled at mandarin Chinese, words are the beg Read more »
In the bronze inscriptions, “zhu” (“蛛”) is a pictographic character that looks like a small insect spreading its legs; In the small seal script, a archaic phonetic element “ ” is added, making it a Read more »
Great Encyclopedia , Yongle Canon
Yongle Canon, a great encyclopedia, was compiled in the Ming Dynasty. It contains 22877 volumes of articles and 60 volumes of table of contents all in 11095 books, with a total number of about 370 Read more »
Chinese rock (yáo gǔn 摇滚) is often and inaccurately described as a style of music which combines Chinese musical instruments with techniques of Western-style rock and roll. But the essential nature o Read more »
Nut carvings are a kind of folk art only found in China. Nut carvings are exquisitely carved from peach pits, almonds, olive pits, and hickory nuts. People honor the skills of the nut sculptu Read more »
Changshan war-drum (常山战鼓) has a long history, which had its embryo early in Warring Period, and prevailed in the Ming dynasty. It is a folk gong-drum made up of some percussion instruments such as Read more »
Officially known as the Taipei International Financial Center (tái běi guó jì jīn róng dà lóu 台北国际金融大楼), this 101-floor, 508-meter high skyscraper is in the Xinyi District (xìn yì qū 信义区) of Taipei ( Read more »
“Feng” (“蜂”) , a Pictophonetic Character
The Chinese Character, an Interpretable Chinese Culture“Feng” (“蜂”) is a pictophonetic character in the oracle bone inscriptions, with the phonetic element on top and two worms at the bottom. The for Read more »
Hebei Bangzi Opera is a main local opera in Hebei. It roots in early shanxibangzi. It has about 140 year history. It comes from the villages of Hebei and distributes over Hebei province. It once prev Read more »
Tengwang Pavilion is located on the shore of the Kan, in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. Together with Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Pavilion (Yueyang Lou) , this fine building is one of the th Read more »
TCM Views Conventional Chinese Medicine
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), internal medicine is the branch that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of internal organ systems, while external medicine is the branch concerned with the Read more »
The Wa people show much originality in prescribing medicine. Chinese herbs for curing rheumatism and injuries are prescribed to cure stomatitis by the Wa people. Rabdosia lophanthoides Hara is Read more »
Meats of all varieties in winter are usually top of these extra-rich festive menus. So how about sampling some vegetarian fare this holiday season? There are a number of dining options in Shang Read more »
“Gong” (“共”) is an associative character that looks like two hands holding a square article in the oracle bone script. The shape changes slightly in the small seal script and is simplified to its cur Read more »
Also called Plum Blossom Prelude or Jade Imperial Concubine Prelude, Plum Blossom Melodies is more popular in the versions of flute music and lyre music. With plum blossoms as its theme, the music si Read more »
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