Culture of China

Watching kids play together in a school yard or playground is never boring for a parent. Either they take great pleasure and pride in their child or they are deeply pained.  The social interaction of child play always reveals the raw character of kids.  Some prove to be potential leaders as they take charge of games and activities, while most become cooperative or passive followers, while yet others become victims of intimidation and verbal abuse from bullies.  Which of the above three...Read Full Story

This coming Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, 5:15pm ET, it's going to be the Chinese Lunar year, 4708 and it's the beginning of the Year of the Tiger! One of the most-awaited event for this Chinese New Year is the Chinese New Year Parade !I can never forget last year when I was there to visit my sister and her family who's been in Granada Hills over nearly a decade now.  It was the best vacation I had because they brought me to downtown LA and witness Chinese New Year Parade. But before that, we went...Read Full Story

Workers the world over, it’s time to lay down your tools and take a well-earned day off. May 1st, Labour Day, May Day, the day of the worker will be tomorrow and it’s time for everybody everywhere to give themselves a pat on the back for a job well done. On May the first workers everywhere will down tools to celebrate the efforts of activists and union representatives the world over to make the world a better place for those who work and their families and communities. While May the first is...Read Full Story

今天，北京已经创下105天没有降水的记录了，而城市储水也达到了67年间的最低水平。在过去的5年多时间里，中国各地遭遇了有史以来最严重的干旱，特别是广东省由于缺水损失了价值380亿美金的农作物。然而北京有1800多万人，这里无疑是受干旱影响最严重的地区之一。加上全球变暖和水体污染，其中后者在过去的5年多里加剧了61%（根据一份麦肯锡于2010年提供的报告），北京的水资源问题将在今年达到更重要的水平。 但情况可以不再这样了。事实上，中国的一些领导们在去年得到了一项加拿大技术的介绍，该项技术可以将填埋场的垃圾转化成纯净水，速度为每天1亿升而每升只需5美分，并且作为一项附加效益，它还可以在冬天给500多万北京居民免费供热。拥有这项技术的公司是总部位于多伦多的Pacific Blue Solutions，并且他们已在世界各地开办了9个类似的废物转化水的工厂。很少有人意识到垃圾的50%是水分。PBS已经发现了一种聪明且环保的方法，不仅可以把不健康有异味的垃圾分解，从而避免生物污染，还可以产生清洁的饮用水 – 无论填埋场坐落在什么地点。例如，北京有3000...Read Full Story

Once upon a time a peasant had a horse. This horse ran away,so the peasant's neighbors came to console him for his bad luck. He answered: "Maybe".The day after the horse came back, leading 6 wild horses with it. The neighbors came to congratulate him on such good luck. The peasant said: "Maybe".The day after, his son tried to saddle and ride on one of the wild horses, but he fell down and broke his leg. Once again the neighbors came to share that misfortune. The peasant said: "Maybe".The day...Read Full Story

A 1000 year old engraving marked the site of the Battle of Red Cliff in today's Hubei, China. Written by Luo Guanzhong ( 罗贯中) in the late Yuan and early Ming period (the exact period is not known ), the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, continue to be the most popular classical novels in Chinese Literature all these years. The period of the Three Kingdoms, from late Eastern Han to the Western Jin Dynasty (169-265 AD) lasted about ninety years, and was an extremely chaotic period in which...Read Full Story

Chinese opera for the Hungry Ghost Festival By now you should probably be aware of the 2008 Summer Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, this coming August. However, there is at least another event going on in (and beneath) China during August. Every year, during the seventh month of the Chinese Calendar, it is believed that the Gates of Hell will be opened and all Hell beings (well, not nearly all, only those well-behaved ones) will be set to roam freely on Earth for a month.Read Full Story

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The Duan Wu ( 端午 ) Festivals falls on the fifth day of the fifth Chinese Lunar Month. This year, it will be on the 8th of June.  There are actually many origins to this Festival, the most commonly excepted version is that the day is used to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan ( 屈原 ), an official and poet in the State of Chu ( 楚 ) state during the Warring States period.Read Full Story

In the Chinese world, there was no defined universe in the beginning. There was simply a nothingness of formless chaos. The Chinese Culture was unique in not having a legend of myth about a Creator of the universe. This thinking was probably the most authentic line of reasoning, but it was not easy to be understood by commoners, nor was it easy to be employed by rulers.Read Full Story