Category: Chinese Culture

Chinese Zodiac 十二生肖

Today let's take a brief introduction of a famous Chinese movie named "Chinese Zodiac".Chinese Zodiac is an action movie directed by Jackie Chan, starring Jackie Chan, SingTong Yao and Kwon Sang-woo. It premiered on October 12th, 2012 in Beijng. Jackie Chan claimed that this will be his last major action movie.

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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 西游•降魔篇

Today let's take a brief introduction of a famous Chinese movie named "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons is an action-comedy movie directed by Stephen Chow and Derek Kok, starring Wen Zhang, Huang Bo and Shu Qi. The movie was released on February 10, 2013 in China. It is loosely based on the Chinese classic "Journey to the West," and has echoes of Chow's classic 1990's hits "A Chinese Odyssey – Pandora's Box" and "Cinderella."

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Foods that drive away summer heat

Lotus root It’s natured, sweet and cold, good for clearing heat(热度rèdù), resolving thirst(口渴kǒukě), nourishing(to nourish a person, animal, or plant means to provide them with the food that is necessary for life, growth, and good health) lungs, improving bad breath, soothing nerves and helping sleep.

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All-veggie diet has too much yin and lacks yang

THOUGH eating costly meat and fish was once a symbol of wealth(wealth is the possession of a large amount of money, property, or other valuable things. You can also refer to a particular person's money or property as their wealth) in China(中国Zhōngguó), today many people can afford animal protein(蛋白质dànbáizhì).

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Please using the tiny green bean

Li Shizhen(李时珍Lǐ Shízhēn), a pharmacologist(someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)) in the Ming Dynasty, identified medical functions of mung beans and recorded them in "Ben Cao Gang Mu"("Compendium of Materia Medica"), a classic of TCM pharmacopoeia.

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Chinese forest frog

Chinese forest frog(中国林蛙Zhōngguó línwā) is called Hashima in the Man Nationality language. Because its meat is as delicate as chicken, it is renamed(if you rename something, you change its name to a new name) frog. It belongs to amphibian ranid. It lives in the bushes of the hillside in spring, summer and winter and in winter; it hibernates under the rock in the deep water. The meat of the frog is sweet, cool and intoxicated and contains profuse protein, sugar, moisture and a little fat. And it tastes delicious, fresh in spring and fragrant in summer. Thus, it is the cate of each season.

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About Tide Surfing

Tide Surfing(冲浪chōnglàng) is a special swimming(swimming is the activity of swimming, especially as a sport or for pleasure) sport. Here it means that swimmers perform their swimming skills against the tides in the time of Qiantangjiang Immense Tide in the eighth Lunar month every year.

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