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Spring Festival: The Most Important Festival In China

The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian...

Peking Opera: All Roles Played By Male Actors

A fascinated art, originally a form of local theatre, Peking Opera spread all over the country and then became the national opera of China. About 200 years ago, the Qing Emperor Qianlong toured in southern China and developed an interest in the local operas. On his 80th birthday, he let local opera troupes come to Beijing to perform for him. Some remained in Beijing after the celebration. The ones from Anhui and Hubei were incorporated with the palace opera -Kunqu Opera, which formed the...

Chinese Painting: history and Four treasures of the study

Chinese traditional painting dates back to the Neolithic Age about 6,000 years ago. The excavated colored pottery with painted human faces, fish, deer and frogs indicates that the Chinese began painting as far back as the Neolithic Age. Over the centuries, the growth of Chinese painting inevitably reflected the change of time and social conditions. From Primitive to Modern. A painted pottery basin In its earliest stage, Chinese prehistoric paintings were closely related to other...

What is China Tai Chi Chuan (Taiji quan)

ABOUT TAI CHI? The Chinese characters for Tai Chi Chuan can be translated as the 'Supreme Ultimate Force'. The notion of 'supreme ultimate' is often associated with the Chinese concept of yin-yang, the notion that one can see a dynamic duality (male/female, active/passive, dark/light, forceful/yielding, etc.) in all things. 'Force' (or, more literally, 'fist') can be thought of here as the means or way of achieving this ying-yang, or 'supreme-ultimate' discipline. Tai Chi, as it is...

The Song of Yue Girl: A beautiful Ancient Chinese Love Story

Chinese PaintingIn 528 BC, Chu LingYin named Ejun held gentlemen's white grand tour boat, many people gatherd. In the event, a Yue girl sing a song for Ejun with the musical instrument named Ji. Because Ejun don't understand the language of South China, Who know the meaning translation the song as: What night is tonight? Pulling the boat in the way of the stream, What day is today? Being with the prince in a ship. Not be abandoned for lowness as me, My heart can not...