Chinese people always think that it’s great important to choose a good Girl’s names. Because the old saying goes, have a good name, have a good fate. In Chinese earliest dictionary, it was explained as follows: name contained the invisible fate. Fate was intangible and negative, it coincided with ‘the hidden material’, on which the Western scientists are working hard to find out. With concrete form and meaning, name belonged to the positive symbol of characters. For every specific person, it functioned far more than just a code.
Category: Chinese customs
Five Strange Wedding Customs of Minorities
Buyi(布依，Bùyī) women According to the traditional customs of Zhengning, Guizhou province, when children are still in the budding period, their parents choose their marriage for them. After rounds blind dating and engagement ceremonies, parents hold a grand marriage when their children are five or six years old, after which they still live in their own family and continue their happy childhood.
HK Festival: The Seven Sisters Festival
About the Four Treasures of The Study
In the various tools of the calligraphy, writing brush is peculiar to China. The brushes are varied, and white goat's hair, black rabbit's hair and yellow weasel's hair are three major types. On the basis of the function of tip, the brushes are classified into three groups: "Hard", "Soft" and "Both". The handle is made of not only bamboo, wood, lacquer and porcelain, but also some precious materials including mother-of-pearl inlay, ivory and jade.
Changyang Man
Man have asked this question again and again-where do we come from? We search provements to find the answer. When this goes to the birth of Chinese nation, you will never miss Changyang Man Site.
HK Festival: the Hungry Ghost Festival
According to traditional Chinese belief, the seventh month in the lunar calendar is when restless spirits roam the earth. Many Chinese people make efforts to appease these transient ghosts, while ‘feeding’ their own ancestors – particularly on the 15th day, which is the Yu Lan or Hungry Ghost Festival(Zhōngyuán Jié中元节).
The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Shun the Great 二十四孝：舜帝
As one of the cores of Chinese culture, "filiality" is not only the moral code for maintaining family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, but also the traditional virtue of Chinese Nation. A Yuan-dynasty(元朝Yuáncháo) writer Guo Jujing(郭居敬Guō Jūjìng) compiled the stories of 24 filial exemplars in ancient times and finished the Stories of Filiality. Let me introduce the first story to you.
What is the weather in Minor Snow?
The first day of Minor Snow is Nov 22, when sun reaches longitude 240 degrees. In this season, the temperature gradually drops to below 0 ℃. It begins to snow.
What is the Minor Snow
Every Nov 22 or Nov 23 is Minor Snow, when sun reaches longitude 240 °. The Collection of the 72 Hou says that “in the middle of the 10th month of the solar calendar, because of the cold air, the raindrops condense into snow when fall. It is the Minor Snow. ” In this solar term, the weather turns cold. In the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River, the average time of the first snow is in Minor Snow solar term. The snow is light and frozen in nights, but melts quickly in the days. Only when a cold front hits a warm, wet front will there be heavy snow. From Nov 15 to Nov 20 in 1993, for example, there was heavy snow in some winter wheat areas in northern China.
The Minor Snow Customs
The 24 solar terms were made based on the seasonal changes of the lower and middle branches of the Yellow River. Thus the characteristics of every solar term are most obvious there. During Minor Snow, the earth of the northern area is frozen, while in the south, the temperature is dropping and the weather is gloomy and cold, but there is no snow yet. The different ways of production and life can be seen.
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