Just as Brazil’s mysterious acai berries once were to Western health fanatics (remember when they could cure cancer?), so are jujubes to China. Known as red dates, or hongzao (红枣) in Chinese, the native southeast asian fruit has long been heralded as a superfood, making appearances on TCM prescription pads and in locals’ kitchens, where they’re still used to decorate buns, porridge, soup or desert as a kind of spice. You can get them fresh during the autumn, when they’re crisp and green as apples, or dried, when the fruit take on a deep red color and sweet, chewy texture. So how did red dates get their reputation as China’s favorite cure-all fruit?
Category: Chinese Culture
Foods for Qingming Festival 清明节的节令食品
在清明节的饮食方面，各地有不同的节令食品。 Different places have different foods for Qingming Festival.
Four Pillars of Destiny – 八字 Ba Zi
Even today, when people talk about Chinese Astrology, it is a common misconception that the animals assigned by year are the only signs of the zodiac. Many western descriptions of Chinese astrology draw solely on this system. In fact, there are also animal signs assigned by month (called inner animals) and hours of the day (called secret animals).
Four Pillars of Destiny is a Chinese term that comprises of four elements of a person’s destiny or fate. The four components are taken from the moment of birth. They are the year, month, day, and time (hour). Each of these elements are important in Chinese astrology, the zodiac and fortune telling.
The term Four Pillars of Destiny come from the Chinese:
Chinese Dragon VS. Western Dragon
The Chinese dragon is a far different feast from its Western counterpart. Smaug from J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is perhaps the most widely known dragon from recent Western fiction, a cruel, avaricious and bloodthirsty creature whose lair under the Lonely Mountain identifies him as a creature of the earth. Tolkien drew much of his inspiration for Smaug from the dragon in the Old English epic of "Beowulf", penned more than a thousand years earlier, which gives some indication of depth of the European tradition of portraying dragons as bad news.
Cupping（拔罐báɡuàn）
Cupping (拔罐 báɡuàn) is a type of Chinese massage that consists of attaching several hollowed-out glass "cups" to the body. These cups work to massage soft tissue, by pulling and stretching the skin. This occurs through a vacuuming process in which these cups literally adhere to the person's body, "sucking" skin up into the cups.
谜语五则——Riddles
Míyǔ zhǔyào zhī ànshè shìwù huò wénzì děnɡ ɡònɡrén cāicè de yǐnyǔ．
诗歌唐朝（一）唐诗气象
诗歌唐朝（一）唐诗气象 诗句精选： （1）出处：00:33 Shúdú tánɡshī sānbǎishǒu,búhuì zuòshī yěhuìyín。
Marrying in China
The author and his wife at the Marriage Registry of Jiangsu province. Monday 8th February 2010 or should I say to use Chinese date format, 2010 February 8th had been preceded by much bureaucratic to-ing and fro-ing. Back in Australia, there were 3 trips into the Brisbane Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages to get a certificate saying there was no record of a marriage since my divorce. You have to love the bureaucratic doublespeak. There is "no record" but the marriage might have happened off the record? Then there was the Australia consulate in Shanghai who were helpful but couldn't give direct advice about what Jiangsu province really wanted. So I opted for a few extra documents just in case. Oh yes you get there early and then a man who doesn't speak English (go figure – it's the Australian consulate!) says come back at 3pm when they do work.
The Folk Indication(5)–Lotus莲花
Sushi (6) Tea
China, as the homeland of tea, pioneers the world in planting, making and drinking it. By the Song Dynasty, the tea culture on the development of the very peak period.
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