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.
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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.
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.
Local Flavours in Hong Kong——Dining Places(2)
Dai Pai Dong
Dai pai dong are open-air street-stalls that serve cooked food. The name literally means ‘restaurant with a big license plate’, referring to the large size of the licenses they are issued. Today, the term is applied to all open-air food stalls, and not just the ones with this specific license. Dai pai dong food usually consists of stir-fries although you can find just about any type of dish or snack in one. Eating at a dai pai dong is truly Hong Kong experience as you will probably end up sharing a table with strangers during busy hours, can cross order from different vendors and are free to watch the local street life. Dai pai dong can be found almost anywhere in the city. Side streets and lanes are the most likely place to spot them. You can find ones that are decades old near the the Central－Mid-Levels Escalator in Central on Hong Kong Island and in the neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po in Kowloon.
Local Flavours in Hong Kong——Dining Places(1)
Many of Hong Kong’s eating experiences are inherited from China or imported from around the world. But some are born and bred, or at least reshaped, in Asia’s world city. These are the places you can find them:
HK Festival: Monkey God Festival
The Monkey God Festival(Hóuwáng Dàn猴王诞) falls on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month.
The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: The Learned Emperor of Han 二十四孝：汉文帝刘恒
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 second story to you.
Chinese Fans
Fans were used in China many thousands of years of years ago and made out of many different materials such as silk, paper, feathers and palm leaves. No one knows exactly how fans in China were invented. The invention or rather the discovery of the fanning function could have been as accidental as follows: a primitive man irritated with lots of flies and mosquitoes, picks up a big leaf off a plant next to him to drive the pests away. To his delight, his effort resulted in cooling air movements.
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