During the ongoing "two sessions", Chinese director Feng Xiaogang suggested schools should teach traditional Chinese characters that contain cultural connotations.
今年“两会”的分组讨论中,冯小刚呼吁在中小学的课本里恢复部分有文化含义的繁体字。
Tag: Kultur
Chinese Culture: Shaoxing Opera (越剧)
Today I will introduce the Shaoxing Opera. Shaoxing Opera, also called Yue Ju (越剧 yuèjù), is one of the Five
Fun Chinese characters – stack them up in multi-dimensional thinking!
In this post I’d like to stack up some character legos with you and hopefully you’ll learn a few new characters after this fun exercise.
Chinese Tea Culture 功夫茶 16 White Peony Tea
White peony tea, one variety of the white teas, is one of the top ten most well-known teas of China.
Chinese Culture: China Opera (中国戏曲)
Chinese culture is a great and extensive civilization with featured Chinese traditional opera, especially the Peking Opera, which is regarded
Chinese Tea Culture 功夫茶 15 Tea Production
A new tea-plant must grow for five years before its leaves can be picked and, at 30 years of age, it will be too old to be productive. The trunk of the old plant must then be cut off to force new stems to grow out of the roots in the coming year. By repeated rehabilitations in this way, a plant may serve for about 100 years.
Chinese Culture: Puppet Show (木偶戏)
The generalized puppet shows includes the shadow plays (皮影戏 píyǐngxì), while the regularly mentioned puppet show (木偶戏 mùǒuxì ) mainly refers to marionettes or rod puppets, in which puppets are carved from wood and covered with colorful costumes. Toady, I will introduce the puppet show.
Chinese Tea Culture 功夫茶 14 Why the Name TEA
Is it Chinese? Or from other Language?"CHA", "TAY", "TEA"The Chinese character "TEA" written with Chinese calligraphic brush.
Chinese Culture: Face Changing (变脸)
Face Changing (变脸 biànliǎn) is a tour de force in many Chinese operas and enjoys a high reputation home and abroad, of which that of Sichuan Opera (川剧 chuānjù) is the most famous. It is said that a master of this unique performance can change a maximum masks over 30 at a time in 5 minutes.
The Folk Indication(1)–Chinese Dragon
中国人对龙的理解与西方人不一样。龙是中华民族进入农业社会后创造的一种虚拟动物，属于水物，它的产生与农业对水的需求有关。在中国的神话与传说中，龙是一种传说中神异动物，居于蛇身、蜥腿、凤爪、鹿角、鱼鳞、鱼尾的形象。它能走，亦能飞，能倒水，能大能小，能隐能现，能翻江倒海，吞风吐雾，兴云降雨。 The Chinese understanding of dragon is different from that of Westerners. Loong, another term for Chinese Dragon, created by the ancients, is a virtual animal when the Chinese nation entered into agricultural society.
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