Accompaniments Neither beverages nor dessert are commonly served with a meal.People drink tea nearly all day，but at meals soup is...
Chinese Customs
Renging Closely intertwined with“guanxi”is“renqing"，an important vehicle in Chinese social exchanges.“renqing"which literally translates as“human feelings”is defines by one western scholar as...
Birthday and Name Date of birth is more than just a date in China.Each date is special in terms of...
How are Chinese baby names chosen？ Choosing a baby name for the baby girl or baby boy is one of...
Tiger shoes are commonly found on babies'feet in the countryside of China even today.The shoes are entirely made of cloth...
The first important event for the newly born baby is the one-month celebration.In Buddhist or Taoist families，on the morning of...
Another custom is to find the newborn baby's Eight Characters（in fourpairs，indicating the year，month，day and hour of a person's birth，each pair...
Has Happiness Chinese people put their family in a very important position as they re-gard it as a means to...
In late 1970s，China entered into a period of“opening to the outside world.”With the great change in the fields of politics，economy...
In the 1960s，what exerted the greatest impact on Chinese marriage standard was the extreme leftism arising in the political movement.From1961，family...
After the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949，the old marriage system set up on the basis of...
The color red is considered good luck，a strong color that can keep away evil spirits.The traditional Chinese wedding dress in...
Double Happiness Each half of the symbol is the standard character for happiness，writen “hsi”or“xi，”and pronounced something like“she”in Mandarin（high level tone，the...
Chinese Wedding Cakes Chinese wedding cakes are called“Happiness Cakes"，also known as “Dragon&Phoenix Cakes".These are baked cake with dragon and phoe-...
Day After the Wedding On the day after the wedding，the bride awoke early to attend honoring the ancestors at dawn.It...
The Wedding Banquets Generally，separate wedding feasts were given by the parents of the bride and the groom for their respective...
Lotus seeds and two red dates are used in the tea for two reasons. First，the words“lotus"and“year，"“seed"and“child，"and“date”and“early，”are homophones，i.e.they have the same...
The Bride's Journey to the Groom's House The“good luck woman"or a dain，employed by the bride's family to look after the...
The“Capping”Ritual Dressed in a long gown，red shoes and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his shoulder，the groom...
The Hair Dressing The“Hair Dressing”Ritual At dawn on her wedding day（or the night before），the bride bathed in water inftused with...