What is the Vernal equinox? 春分是什么？
The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms. Vernal equinox (春分Chūnfēn) is the 4th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 0°and ends when it reaches the longitude of 15°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 0°. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around 20 March and ends around 4 April (5 April East Asia time).根据中国的日历把一年分为了24个节气。春分是春季九十天的中分点。二十四节气之一。太阳位于黄经0°。在时间周期上是指太阳位于黄经０°和１５°之间的位置，大约是3月20日至3月22日之间。但在实务上通常特指太阳真正位于黄经０°的那天：3月20日或3月21日。
Each solar term can be divided into 3 pentads (候). They are: first pentad (初候), second pentad (次候) and last pentad (末候). Pentads in Chunfen include:中国古代将春分分为三候：“一候元鸟至；二候雷乃发声；三候始电。”
First pentad: 'The dark birds arrive'. 'Dark bird' in this case refers to swallows, which are also making their northward migration.玄鸟至：玄鸟，燕也，高诱曰：“春分而来，秋分而去也。”
Second pentad: 'Thunder sounds', referring to the onset of spring thunderstorms.雷乃发声：阴阳相薄为雷，至此，四阳渐盛，犹有阴焉，则相薄乃发声矣；乃者，《韵会》曰：“象气出之难也。”注疏曰：“发，犹出也。”
Last pentad: 'Lightning begins'. This refers to thunderstorms as well, but also to the gradual lengthening of daytime, and the prevalence of sunlight.始电：电，阳光也；四阳盛长，值气泄时而光生焉。故《历解》曰：“凡声，阳也；光，亦阳也。《易》曰：“雷电合而章。”《公羊传》又曰：“电者，雷光。”是也，徐氏曰：“雷阳，电阴。”非也。盖盛夏无雷之时，电亦有之，可见矣。
The difference between Hanbiuk & kimono中日传统服饰的区别
领lǐnɡ： collar
襟jīn： front of a garment
裾jū： the full front of a Chinese gown
袂mèi：sleeve
袪qū：cuff of a sleeve
袖xiù： sleeve
衿jīn： the lapel of coat
衽rèn：the one or two pieces making up the front of a Chinese clothes
带dài：belt
系xì：tie
Chinese Art：Clay Sculpture 中华艺术：泥塑
Clay sculptures, a kind of folk craft of sculpturing a variety of figures from clay, is also known as “painted sculpture” and “mud play”. Clay sculpture art is an ancient and common Chinese folk art form in which clay can be used as raw material and kneaded by hand to take form. They are plain in color or multi colored and mainly take the shape of human figures and animals. Such, Beijing Clay Sculpture is known for its simple, unrefined and pleasant style.泥塑，即用粘土塑制成各种形象的一种民间手工艺。在民间俗称“彩塑”、“泥玩”。泥塑艺术是我国一种古老常见的民间艺术。它以泥土为原料，以手工捏制成形。或素或彩，以人物、动物为主。北京泥塑以古朴粗犷的写意风格著称
The Charm of Clay Sculpture泥塑魅力
Clay sculpture art is a kind of Chinese folk art. The folk artisans use natural or cheap materials but can make small and exquisite artifacts, gaining popularity with common people. Though clay sculptures are not technologically involved, they bring highlights to people’s lives by means of simplicity, direct-vision, authenticity and hands on characteristics. In terms of collection times, clay sculpture collections are very challenging and collections are valued. Each work is made by hand and is unique and is artistically untainted by copies, reproductions or counterfeits etc. Different from, other forms of art such as paintings, paper cuttings and embossment etc., clay sculpture art has a strong visual impact with appreciation from varying angles adding richness and diversity, more closely resembling life. Today, with high technology developing rapidly, reflection upon this art form allows people to return to an original simplicity and clay sculptures allow for a manifestation of fashion and individuality. China attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, upon the approval of the State Council, clay sculpture was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.泥塑艺术是中华民间艺术的一种，民间艺人用天然的或廉价的材料，能够作出精美小巧的工艺品，博得民众的喜爱。虽然泥塑并非以科技含量而论，但它确实在人们的生活中增加了新的亮点。朴实、直观、真实和更加的“零距离”。在珍藏时间上也极具挑战性，而且还具有收藏价值。就是说每件作品均是手工制做，皆为孤品，世界上独一无二的。不存在仿造、复制、盗版等被侵权现象的发生，它更不同于油画、剪纸、浮雕等其他艺术的表现形式。泥塑艺术具有强烈的视觉冲击效果，欣赏角度也极为的丰富和多样化，更能贴近于人们的生活。在高科技迅猛发展的今天，是人们追求其返璞归真的具体写照，同时也是当今人们追求时尚、个性的一种体现。中国非常重视非物质文化遗产的保护，2006年5月20日，泥塑经国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。
The 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac’s Origin
The Shēngxiào, also known in English as the Chinese Zodiac, is a scheme, and a systematic plan of future action, that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, according to a 12-year cycle. The 12 Chinese zodiac animals can be divided into three categories.生肖，或属相，是中国及东亚地区的一些民族用来代表年份的十二种动物，统称为十二生肖。每个人都以其出生年的象征动物作为生肖，所以中国民间常以生肖计算年龄。循环一次为一轮。中国人生肖中的十二种动物大致可分为三类：
The first category includes the six kinds of tamed animals such as the ox, goat, horse, pig, dog and rooster, accounting for half of the zodiac animals. They are raised by people for economic or domestic purposes. These animals form an important concept in China’s agricultural culture. In the traditional philosophy of the Chinese people, the prosperity of these animals means the prosperity of their families. On Spring Festival, people usually mention “prosperity of the six domesticated animals.” Thus, it is natural for the animals to be among the 12 zodiac animals.一类是已被驯化的“六畜”，即牛、羊、马、猪、狗、鸡，它们是人类为了经济或其它目的而驯养的，占十二种动物的一半。“六畜”在中国的农业文化中是一个重要的概念，有着悠久的历史，在中国人的传统观念中“六畜兴旺”代表着家族人丁兴旺、吉祥美好。春节时人们一般都会提“六畜兴旺”，因此这六畜成为生肖是有其必然性的。
The second category are wild animals that are familiar to people and closely related to people’s daily and social life. They are the tiger, rabbit, monkey, mouse and snake. Some of them are awed by people and interfere with people’s lives, such as the tiger and snake; some are hated by the people but they must depend on human race for a living, like the mouse; there are also the animals people like, such as the rabbit and monkey.第二类是野生动物中为人们所熟知的，与人的日常、社会生活有着密切关系的动物，它们是虎、兔、猴、鼠、蛇，其中有为人们所敬畏的介入人类生活的，如虎、蛇；也有为人们所厌恶、忌讳，却依赖人类生存的鼠类；更有人们所喜爱的，如兔、猴。
Chinese programe: In Chinese乐学中文 26
中国人必须要知道的元宵节
春节后15天，中华大地又将迎来一个重要的节日：元宵节。元宵节是农历正月十五，又称为“上元节”（the Lantern Festival），春灯节，是中国汉族民俗传统节日。农历的第一个月是正月（zhēngyuè，first month of the lunar new year ），正月是农历的元月，古人称夜为“宵”，而十五日又是一年中第一个月圆之夜，所以称正月十五为元宵节。又称为小正月、元夕或灯节，是春节之后的第一个重要节日。中国幅员辽阔，历史悠久，所以关于元宵节的习俗在全国各地也不尽相同，其中吃元宵/汤圆（Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival）、赏花灯（a festive lantern）、猜灯谜（riddles written on lanterns）、舞龙（dragon dance）、舞狮（lion dance）、放烟火（let off fireworks）、赏月（admire the moon）等是元宵节几项重要民间习俗。
What’s the Lantern Festival in China?
15 days after spring festival is another important festival in China. It is the Chinese Lantern Festival.It is the 15th day of the 1st lunar month because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon(And full moon stands for reunion). So it is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.
Fashion Timeline of Chinese Women Clothing中国女性服装的演变
Brief introduce Chinese clothing has approximately 5,000 years of history behind it, but regrettably I am only able to cover 2,500 years in this fashion timeline. I began with the Han dynasty as the term hanfu (meaning: dress of ethnic Chinese people) was coined in that period. Please bear in mind that this is only a generalized timeline of Chinese clothing primarily featuring aristocratic and upper-class ethnic Han Chinese women (the exceptions are Fig. 8 (dancer) and Fig. 11 (maid, due to the fact I couldn’t find many paintings in the Yuan period)).
Eight-Part Essay 八股文
As a type of literary style,prescribed-form （科举kē jǔ ）text has a double attribute: on the one hand, as a succession to and development of the style of the former dynasties, it has the characters of a style itself; on the other hand, as a literary form designed for the imperial civil service examinations.
A mysterious font——Women’s script 女书
In 1983, after the announcement of finding Women’s script （女书nǚ shū ）in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province to the world, it was very astonishing and attracted broad interests from many national and international academics, specialists and the media.
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