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Seven cups of Tea 七种茶

The arid northern China climate has a bad effect on women, young and old, who care about their complexions, particularly those who sit in front of a computer all day. Drinking plenty of water helps to combat the effects of computer radiation, but the seven special teas we recommend here will help to rehydrate the skin and also improve your general health.

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Chinese grammar: Aspect particle 着zhe

The particle 着 (zhe) is one way of indicating the continuous aspect in Mandarin Chinese (another common way is using the adverb 在 in front of verbs). You may have heard that the Chinese particle 着 added onto the end of verbs is similar to the use of -ing in English. This isn't particularly helpful, however, because the use of 着 in Chinese is not nearly so frequent, and can also be quite idiomatic.

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The Appearance and Development of Primitive Tribes

The New Stone Age was featured by the primitive agriculture and livestock husbandry and was mainly marked by the polishing stone wares and crockery. The emergence of the primitive agriculture and livestock has the epoch-making significance as the greatest economic revolution besides the mastery of fire in the human history.

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Embroidery in China 刺绣

As a folk art with a long tradition, Embroidery(刺绣:cì xiù) occupies an important position in the history of Chinese arts and crafts. It is, in its long development, inseparable from silkworm-raising and silk-reeling and weaving.

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Chinese grammar: ever since with yilai以来

There are a few ways to express "ever since" in Chinese. In English, we would say something like "ever since I came to Shanghai, my Chinese has improved a lot." In this article, we will first take a look at using 以来 (yǐlái) to mean "ever since". We will also take a quick look at using "ever since" with 来 (lái), which is similar but used in a somewhat different way.

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Charms of snakes 蛇的魅力

It is well known that every part of a snake is useful. Using snakes as medicine has a long history in China and is recorded in detail in many ancient classics of Chinese traditional medicine, including Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen(李时珍 Lǐ Shízhēn). The book narrated 17 kinds of snake medicines, most of which about the flesh of a snake.

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