Category: Chinese customs

Anhui-Hangzhou Ancient Road, which extends 25 kilometers from Fuling Town in the Jixi County, Anhui Province to Zhechuan Village in Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province, was a famous ancient road in the China. It was built during the Tang Dynasty(618-907) and served as an important passage for merchants traveling between Anhui and Zhejiang.

Chinese acrobatics(中国杂技Zhōngguó zájì) has a very long history and is an excellent and precious cultural legacy(a legacy is money or property which someone leaves to you when they die) of the Chinese nation. There are a lot of acrobatics village in China, e.g. Liaocheng of Shandong Province, Yancheng of Jiangsu Province, Puyang of Henan Province, Tianmen of Hubei Province, Guangde of Anhui Province, Wuqing of Tianjin City, Wuqiao, Suning and Bazhou of Hebei Province. However, as to the history, the influence among people, and the influence in both domestic and abroad, Wuqiao is the most famous one.

The Soldiers Acrobatic Troupe under the Guangzhou(广州Guǎngzhōu) Military Command won awards for Jumping Through Hoops on the Ground, Diabolo Playing and Two-Person Pole Climbing in international competition during the 1980s. During the 1990s, the troupe captured the Clown d'Or for its Two-Person Bowl Balancing Act performed at the 17th Festival International du Cirque Monte-Carlo, as well as the President of the Republic of France Award for Juggling Rugs with the Feet at the Fourth Festival Mondial du Cirque de I'Avenir and the President of the Republic of France Award for Big Springboard Stunts by Women at the 15th Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain.

In performing the magic item Flying Spitball(飞行团fēixíng tuán), the performer picks up a small piece of paper from ground or table with the right hand, crushes it up into a spitball and then transfers it from the right hand to the left. Suddenly, he makes a movement of tossing what's in his left hand upwards to the air, saying, Go! Then he opens his left hand and the spitball disappears. After that, he stretches out his right hand and makes a gesture of catching something, saying, Come! At this stage, he opens his right hand and the spitball is really in his right hand.

龙是现实中不存在的动物，但在东西方都有这个虚拟动物的文化表述。中国文化传说中的龙是蛇身、鹿角、鹰爪和鱼鱗等的结合体。有人认为这是炎黄时代各部落被统一后，糅合各部落的图腾而形成的，在中国古代则常用来作为君王的代表。龙是中国人心目中最为神圣的动物，也是近代社会中华民族自视的象征。如龙的传人、龙子龙孙等。古代皇帝穿龙袍，被喻为真龙天子。家长希望自己的子女有出息，就叫"望子成龙"。在汉语中，"龙"总是用于褒义，如鱼跃龙门、龙凤呈祥、龙飞凤舞、龙腾虎跃、龙骧虎视、龙盘虎踞、藏龙卧虎、生龙活虎和攀龙附凤等。

Qingming Festival, means clear and bright in Chinese, is the day for mourning the dead. It falls in early April every year. It corresponds with the onset of warmer weather, the start of spring plowing, and family outings.

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon（新月）on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon（满月）15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

In the Yuan Dynasty(元朝Yuán cháo), Jingdezhen(景德镇Jǐngdézhèn) already had ability to mass-produce fine blue and white porcelain(ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic). Then during the Ming and Qing dynasties, many new types of wares were created. High quality porcelain with elegant shapes made Jingdezhen known as "the Capital of Porcelain". Ceramics-manufacturing crafts reached its zenith in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

A girl shows a gold screen artwork(photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication) with the image of rabbits(兔子tùzi) in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province(山东省Shāndōng shěng), Dec. 20, 2010.