Beijing opera or Peking opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines: music.vocal performance,mime,dance and acrobatics.It arose in...
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Chinese ceramic ware shows a continuous development since the pre-dynastic periods, and is one of the most significant forms of...
Mianzi(Face) The idea of shame,usually expressed as"face"could be loosely defined as the"status"or "self-respect"in Chinese and by no means alien to...
In general.gifts are given at Chinese New Year,weddings,births and more recently. birthdays. It's traditional to bring a gift when invited...
The Taboo about Numbers: Ta Chinese culture,certain numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or inauspicious baret on the...
Chinese culture has many fine-grained terms for different types of family relationshirs.An "uncle"in English can refer to a brother or...
Red is central to the wedding theme of China.It signifies love,joy and prosperity and is used in a variety of...
The Shengxiao,better known in English as the Chinese Zodiac signs,is a scheme that The Shengxiao,better known in En relates each...
Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore,with mythic counterparts among Japanese,Korean,Vietnamese,Bhutanese,Western and Turkic cultures.In Chinese art,dragons are...
Personal names in Chinese culture follow a number of conventions different from those of personal names in Western cultures.Most noticeably,a...
The Henan Museum or Henan Provincial Museum,located in Zhengzhou,Henan Province. China,is a history and art museum.It has a collection of...
Shaanxi History Museum,which is located to the northwest.of the Criant Wild Coose Pagrin the ancient city Xi'an,in the Shaanxi Province...
Chinese literature extends thousands of years,from the earliest recorded dynastic courtarchives to the mature fictional novels that arose during theMing...
The history of science and technology in China is both long and rich with manycontributions to science and technology.In antiquity,independently...
Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought.Chinesephilosophy has a history of several thousand years;its origins areoften...
A Chinese character,also known as a Han character(;Hanzi),is a logogram used inwriting Chinese(hanzi),Japanese(kanji),less frequentlyKorean(hanja),and formerly Vietnamese(han tu),and otherlanguages.Chinese characters are...
Confucius,(551-479 BC),was the Chinese sage who founded Confucianism.Born of a poor but aristocratic family in the state of Lu(now Shandong province),he...
The Four Great Inventions of ancient China are four inventions that are celebrated in Chineseculture for their historical significance and...
Classical Chinese poetry is a type of poetry which is written in Classical Chinese.It is typified by certain traditional forms,or modes,and...
Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history,folktales,and religions that have been passed down in oral or written traditions.These include...