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The Duanwu Festival 端午节

Duanwu Festival(端午节 Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Festival. It also known as Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival is quite popular among the Chinese people, every year people celebrate this festival on May 15 in lunar calendar. China attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, this folk-custom was approved by the State Council into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

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24 Solar Term: Cold Dew 寒露

“Cold Dews(寒露,  Hánlù ) ” is the 17 solar term of the 24 solar terms and falls on October 8 or October 9 each year. It means that it’s colder than “ White Dews(白露,  Báilù ) ” and the dews are becoming frost. During this period, most of the areas around Nanling enter autumn and north-east and north-west of China will soon enter winter. When the sun reaches the celestial longitude (黄经, Huáng Jīng) of 195 degrees, the swan gooses fly to south in a “ single line(一字形,  Yī-zì xíng ) ” or a “ herringbone shaped line(人字形,  Rén-zì xíng ) ”, most of the sparrows are gone and chrysanthemum starts to bloom.

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Cooking with TCM 药膳

In traditional Chinese medicine, it's unnecessary to hold your nose and swallow a bitter potion to stay healthy and boost energy in winter. An array of appetizing dishes, known as yao shan(药膳 Yàoshàn), can do the trick.

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Find your Chinese Zodiac 找出你的生肖

The Chinese Zodiac or Shengxiao(生肖 shēngxiào) in Pinyin(拼音 pīnyīn), is a scheme, a systematic strategy of potential action, relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, based on a 12-year mathematical cycle. It's wide currency in a number of East Asian nations such as China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan.

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About the Capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty

2500 to 3000 years ago, Zhou(周朝Zhōucháo) people lived a poetic life as described in Zhouli (Ritual of Zhou Dynasty) and Shijing (The Book of Songs, China's first ancient poems collections). The profile and details of Zhou people, whether from archeological evidences or in people's imagination, are intriguing and thought provoking. However, we do not know exactly the location of the dynasty's capital and the kings' tombs of Zhou.

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