The Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice indicates the period of winter and people always want to keep themselves warm.In the...
The Impression of China
Solar Terms is a calendar of twenty-four periods and climate to govern agricultural arrangements in ancient China and functions even...
The Chinese lunar calendar is the longest chronological record in history dating back to 2 600 BC.Like the Gregorian calendar，the...
Although China has adopted the Gregorian calendar in common with most other countries in the world for official and business...
Chinese Chan In China，Chan developed from Bodhidharma，who is said to have come from southern india and introduced Buddhism here since...
The earliest Buddhist scripture introduced to China was in its Sanskrit version.This fact was corroborated by Paragraphs of ancient Buddhist...
Daoist Guan Most of the Taoist places of worship were called guan（temples），others palaces，convents，nunneries，monasteries，towers，caves，halls，or temples.Some people called large ones palaces，and small...
Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi，living at a time of social disorder and great religious skepticism（see article on Confucianism），developed the notion...
New Techniques in Acupuncture With the research of acupuncture，new techniques have been invented.One of them is the electrical stimulation，in which...
Acupuncture and moxibustion are traditional Chinese therapies that the ancient Chinese often used to prevent diseases and give emergency treatments.Besides...
The doctor usually concocts a remedy from one or two main ingredients appropriate for the illness.Then he/she adds other ingredients...
Srief Introduction of Herbal Medicine Herbal medicine has been a part of the written history of Chinese medicine for over...
Chinese Attitudes toward Disease According to Chinese cosmology，all is born from the marriage of yin and yang.Harmony between the two...
The Brief Introduction of Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine is developed for more than five thousand years.Traditional Chinese medicine is...
Summer Palace Summer Palace situated in western outskirts of Beijing，the Summer Palace is the typical classical garden in China，and one...
The Chinese garden architectures are characterized by taking advantage of the environment so that the natural scenes and human interestscould...
Gardening is one of the important types of architectural art.Its essence is to construct beautiful surroundings by designing all the...
Bing Xin，（1900-1999）whose real given name is Xie Wanying，is one of the most prolific and esteemed Chinese writers of the 20th...
Soong Ching-ling（Wade-Giles:Sung Ch'ing-ling）（January 27，1893~May 29，1981）was born to the wealthy businessman and missionary Charlie Soong in Kunshan，Jiangsu，attended high school in Shanghai，and...
Qiu Jin（November 8，1875～July 15，1907）was a Chinese female anti-Qing Empire revolutionary killed after a failed uprising. ·Courtesy names:Xuanqing and Jingxiong ·Sobriquet:The Woman-knight...