Chinese Culture

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Seismograph The first seismograph (dì dǒng yí 地动仪) of the world was invented by Zhang Heng (zhāng héng 张衡), a

21．Shed Your Skin Like The Golden Cicada The cicada sheds its skin intact, so that the shell looks like a real

The currency is a medium for the exchange of commodities. It was an inevitable outcome of such exchanges. In a

Lady White, Xiao Qing and Fa Hai The folk of Lady White and Xu Xian (bái niáng zǐ hé xǔ xiān 白娘子和许仙) is one of

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as 'Spring F

Statue of Jie Zitui and His Mother seating on Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu…

As part of the 'food museum' craze sweeping across China, Beijing has recently unveiled a museum dedicated ent

As the weather turned warmer in Hangzhou, farmers began to harvest China’s famous West Lake Longjing tea this

Chinese culture is a great and extensive civilization with featured Chinese traditional opera, especially the

The 10th International Shaolin Wushu Festival opened on last Sunday in Shaolin Temple located in Zhengzhou, ce

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival(中秋节zhōng qiū jiē),

The Sundial In ancient China, people calculated time according to the position of the sun, the moon and stars