China Weather
China is a big country and the climate vary widely from place to place. Most of China is located in the north temperature zone which is characterized by a warm climate and clear division between...
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Chinese Festivals
An essential part of Chinese Culture, Chinese festivals have traditions which date back thousands of years. Many festivals are originated from ancient farmer rituals for celebrating harvests or prayer...
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Chinese History
As one of the Four Great Ancient Civilizations, China has a recorded history of more than 4,000 years. In 2070 BC, the first Chinese dynasty – Xia Dynasty, was established. This brought into being a...
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The Chinese Zodiac
The Chinese Zodiac (or Sheng Xiao in Chinese) is an important factor to the Chinese culture. It is based on a twelve year cycle, each year is related to an animal sign. These animal signs are the rat,...
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China Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Minorities in China China has 56 ethnic groups. Han nationality takes up over 90% of China’s population, There are 55 ethnic minorities in China. Most of them live in the backward west part,...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an ancient China practice. Though the first recorded history of TCM dates back over 2000 years, it is believed that the origin of TCM goes back more than 5000...
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China’s Currency
The renminbi or RMB for short is the currency that China has used since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Since 1949, the People’s Bank of China has issued five sets of currency....
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Chinese Silk Paintings
Chinese Silk Painting Chinese silk paintings are made on silk and involve the artist using a brush dipped in black or colored ink. The materials used are similar to that of Chinese calligraphy. Silk...
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Chengyu Chinese Idioms
Chengyu are four or five character expressions in the Chinese language that are similar to idioms in the English language and an estimated 5,000 to 20,000 exist. They are derived from the Classical...
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The Yellow River
The Yellow River Known as Huang He in Mandarin, the Yellow River stretches 3,400 miles west to east through China’s Mainland with its origins in the Qinghai province until it empties in the Bohai Sea....
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Qipao
Chinese Qipao Qipao is the body hugging dress that Chinese women wear on special occasions; they have been a part of Chinese culture since the Manchu Dynasty in the 17th century. The Manchu ruler...
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Chinese Erhu
Chinese Erhu Erhu is a fiddle with two strings and a member of the huqin family of instruments. Huqin instruments have a round, hexagonal or octagonal box at the bottom of the neck. The word huqin...
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Gold Fish in Chinese Culture
Gold fish have a unique status in Chinese culture as they represent good luck or fortune. The word for fish in China is yu (second tone) and the word for abundance or surplus is also yu (second tone)....
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The Magic of Mekong – A river trip from China to Vietnam
Asia is a beautiful and immense continent with a wide variety of terrains, landscapes and even cityscapes at every turn. How better to experience the full flavor of the region than by taking a lengthy...
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China – The Invention of Paper
The invention of paper took place in central China during the Han dynasty (206BC – 220AD). Cai Lun is widely credited as the first person to produce paper as we know it today. He was a court official...
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber Dream of the Red Chamber is one of China’s four classical novels. The others are Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West. Written during the...
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Get to Know Hutongs
The word Hutong is derived from the Mongolian word Hotog, which translates to “water well” and historically people have flocked to these locations because of the importance of being proximate to water....
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Shaolin Monks and Temple
Shaolin Temple Batuo was the first abbot of the Shaolin Monastery; he arrived from India in 480 AD, preaching Buddhist principles for thirty years. He believed that Buddhist principles were best taught...
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Eating Peking Duck
Peking Duck There is an old Chinese chengyu (Chinese saying) that states, “If it looks like a Peking duck, swims like a Peking duck, and quacks like a Peking duck, then it is probably dinner.”...
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China’s 14 Bordering Countries
China has a long land border and has 14 neighboring countries in total. Now let us check one by one. Russia- Russia is the largest country in the world geographically covering one eighth of the total...
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