An organization has drawn up measures to add chopsticks to the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015.
Category: Traditional Chinese Festivals
粤菜 Cantonese Cuisine
China’ s southern city of Shunde(顺德) joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as the city of gastronomy on Monday. Shunde
西游记 Journey to the West
Recently Chinese actor Zhang Jinlai, is spearheading a campaign to get his series "Journey to the West"(西游记xī yóu jì )
扇子Chinese Fan
[shàn fēng qǔ liáng] 扇风取凉 use a fan to get cool
[fāng biàn shí yòng] 方便实用 convenient and useful
[wù měi jià lián] 物美价廉 attractive and reasonable price
Winter Solstice Festival 冬至
Origin of the Festival The Winter Solstice Festival, which comes on December 22nd or December 23rd, is also called "Winter
中国的数字手势 Number Gestures in China
Hand gestures are used throughout the world, but the same gesture can have different meanings in different cultures. Most cultures have similar gestures for the numbers one to five, but Chinese cultures also have gestures for six to ten. All number gestures are commonly used in commerce or day-to-day communication.
Shadow Puppet Play in China 皮影戏
Shadow puppet play(皮影戏píyǐngxì), which also called "shadow play", is a drama form in which the player holds the human figures that are engraved(carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface) by the animal hides with colored paintings, and reflected on the curtain through the light, singing and dancing controlled by the player with the silk string, drums music and gongs, playing a series of stories. It is widely spread in most regions in China, except Tibet and Xinjiang, with different styles of shadow puppet play in different places. However, the characters shaping and performance skills are all quite exquisite, with play themes including the Chinese ancient magic, myths, religions, monarchs(the monarch of a country is the king, queen, emperor, or empress), legal cases, wars, as well as talented scholars and pretty ladies, the secular life.
孔子 Confucius
Who is Confucius(孔子kǒng zǐ)?子(zǐ) is respectful form of address in ancient China reserved for those with moral integrity and knowledge. Kong Zi, known as Confucius, was a Chinese educator and thinker who lived more than 2,000 years ago. His surname was Kong and his full name was Kong Qiu. He was born into a fallen noble family in the State of Lu(now Shandong province).He was intelligent and loved learning since childhood. He became a learned and accomplished man.
Badaling Great Wall 八达岭长城
The Badaling Great Wall(八达岭长城Bādálĭng Chángchéng) is located in Yanqing County, about 60 kilometres north-west of Beijing,and stands at the strategic highest point from north-west to beijing in China.It is the important pass for protecting Beijing City with the name of "the Key to the North Gate of Beijing","To look down at Juyong Pass from the Badaling Great Wall is like to pour water from a higher place or watch down a deep well". The ancient people had the saying that "the strategic position of Juyong Pass does not lie in Guan city,but Badaling" which indicates its utmost strategic position.
About the Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguro Kingdom 高句丽王朝
The ancient Koguro Kingdom(高句丽王朝Gāogōulí wángcháo), known as the Gaojuli Kingdom, was first built in 37 B.C in Han Dynasty and fell to the Silla-Tang alliance in 668 A.D. The city was sacked several times until the rise of the 19th ruler king Gwanggae to the Great, who greatly expanded Koguro’s territory and made it a formidable power in the northeast Asia. The boundary of the kingdom in its heyday even covered the whole area of present North Korea and Northeast China.