A community portal about Culture of China with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The culture of China is the result of 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences...
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A community portal about Culture of China with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The culture of China is the result of 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such contributions as Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China's history, and traditional Chinese culture is heavily influenced by it.
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... 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... 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... 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
The Duan Wu ( 端午 ) Festivals falls on the fifth day of the fifth Chinese Lunar Month. This year, it will be on the 8 th 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
The Chinese Book of Poems
Shi Jing ( 诗经 ) or The Book of Poems is one of the most significant headstreams of Chinese Literature. Complied over a period of almost 500 years from the Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, it contains 305 poems and was part of the Confucius’s curriculum in his time.
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Back in AD 132, in the ancient capital of Jing Shi ( present day Luoyang in Henan Province) of Eastern Han Dynasty, news broke out that an official by the name of Zhang Heng (张衡) invented a mechanical machine that was capable of predicting the time and location of earthquakes. Many people did not believe him at that time. Read Full Story
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