Tag: Culture

Cowherd and Weaving Girl 牛郎织女

The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is one of the four most famous folktales of ancient China. It is a classic love story between a fairy and a human being and has a widespread influence. The Qixi Festival is said to have something to do with the fairy tale. Naturally, the seventh day of every seventh month of the lunar calendar has become Chinese Valentine’s Day.

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Four big “tea schools” of Chinese teahouse 中国茶馆四大“茶门”

中国人上茶馆喝茶可谓历史悠久,而四大“茶门”的说法就是对那些茶馆风气最盛的城市的简称。如果现在要在中国找出茶楼文化最为丰盛的城市,那东有杭州,西有成都,南有潮汕,北有北京。类似太极茶道、老舍茶馆、圣陶沙、五福茶艺馆等等大品牌,都出自这些“茶气”极盛的城市里。 There is a long history for Chinese to go to teahouse to drink tea while the saying of four

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Dialect of Hakka 客家语

Hakka is a dialect  (客家话 Kèjiāhuà) of China comes from migration culture. It is actually a selecion of Chinese spoken in south eastern China, parts of Taiwan and in the New Territories of Hong Kong. There are also considerable communities of Hakka speakers in this kind of countries like the USA, French Guiana, Mauritius along with the UK. The total number of Hakka speakers is mainly about 40 million. The name of the language, signifies ‘guest language’.

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