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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... [more]

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.

The Book of Poems


The Ancient Chinese Book of Poems
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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