China is known as a country of music in the far ancient times; the Chinese ancient music is of great importance in the culture and etiquette of the country.With a longstanding tradition of musical education as early as the Warring State Period (475 BC – 221 BC), Confucius had set the study procedures from poems to etiquette and then the last important, to music.
Category: Traditional Chinese Festivals
Chinese Culture: Traditional Chinese Musical (中国传统乐器)
In terms of material, there are Ba Yin (八音 bā yīn), that is, the eight categories of musical instrument in ancient orchestra, namely, metal, stone, string, bamboo, gourd, clay, leather and wood. In terms of playing skills, there are generally four kinds, percussion instruments (bells, drums, and gongs), wind instruments (flutes, Suona and Xiao), bowed string instruments (Banhu and Erhu) and plucked string instruments (Guzheng, Pipa and Sanxuan).
Chinese Pandas——Introduction
With the scientific name "猫熊(mao xiong)" in Chinese, giant pandas are commonly called "熊猫(xiong mao)" in mainland China as a
Chinese Culture: Islam (伊斯兰教)
Among the 55 Chinese minorities in China, there are 10 observe Islam, namely, Hui Minority, Uyghur, Kazak, Khalkhas, Uzbek, etc, Ozbek, Tajik, Tatar, Dongxiang, Sala and Baoan, mainly inhabiting in the northwest provinces of Xijiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and the southwest province of Yunnan, and individual Muslims live almost in every city in the country.
Jiayuguan Fort 嘉峪关
The Jiayuguan(嘉峪关Jiāyùguān) or Jiayu Pass is the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of China, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. It has also been called "Jiayuguan Pass"; however, this form is tautological since "guan" means "pass"(go across or through) in Chinese. Along with Shanhaiguan and Juyongguan, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.
The First Fire Tower of the Great Wall 嘉峪关
7 kilometers south of Jiayuguan(嘉峪关Jiāyùguān) City lies the Great Wall’s first fire tower(烽火台Fēnghuŏtái), regarded by some as the world’s first frustum(a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed), or cut-off pyramid(a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex). This structure marks the western beginning of the Ming Great Wall.
Semi-colonial and Semi-feudal Era半殖民地半封建时期
Semi-colonial and Semi-feudal Era (1840–1919年) The Chinese Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen in 1911 overturned the rule of the Qing
Famous Guge Kingdom 古格王国
Geographical Location:The ruins of Guge Kingdom are located on a mountain in Zhabran Village, which is 18 km west of the county town of Zhada.
火锅 Hotpot
A hotpot banquet(火锅宴huǒ guō yàn) was organized by Huaxiyanwei, an official WeChat account belonging to West China Metropolis Daily(华西都市报), for fans at a ski resort on Chengdu Xiling Snow Mountain(西岭雪山) on Dec 16. It took them more than two hours to reach the destination.火锅 huǒ guō Hotpot
婚礼Wedding
Related News: Over 100 foreign students from 26 countries experience a Qing Dynasty-style wedding at a folk museum in the ancient city of Huizhou, east China’s Zhejiang province on January 18, 2015.
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