Traditional Chinese Hand Reading
Step1Sit facing the person whose palms you are reading with the hands upright. Create an atmosphere that has good lighting. Don't use a lamp that will shine into your faces, but one that shines direct Read more »
This is actually a small plate of "Big-plate chicken", a big plate is about 15″ in diameter and is enough for 8 people! Chicken, potatoes, medium chillies, garlic and usually onions in a really fragra Read more »
“焚” in Chinese Character Means "Burn"
焚 （burn, fén） is an associative compound. In terms of the grapheme, the upper component of the oracle bone inscriptions is “林 (forest)” and the lower one is “火 (fire)”. When hunting in the ancient ti Read more »
The character “飞”, or “飛” before being simplified, is like a bird’s head on a stretched-out neck in the small seal script ( ), with both wings widely spread below. So, this is a pictographic characte Read more »
Typhoon is an English loan word from Chinese. This one is Tyhpoon Chaba over the south of Japan in 2004. Words taken completely or in part from another language are known as loanwords. In the English Read more »
Food Culture of South and North China
China is an extremely vast land, and it is not hard to imagine that different places of China have different food cultures. In Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macao, people drink soup before having Read more »
Dragon Boat Festival is Coming
Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival forms one of the three major Chinese holidays. Since the summe Read more »
Yellow Emperor Mausoleum is located on the top of the Qiaoshan Mountain in the northern suburbs of Huangling County, Shaanxi Province. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Yellow Xuan Yuan, the primogenito Read more »
Mei (美, beauty) is written as in oracle bone inscriptions, which resembles a man with two long decorative feathers on head. In small seal script, another form appears as , which consists of a “羊” (sh Read more »
Chinese characters usually have one or more meanings and some of them are particularly loved by Chinese people. Here is the top ten list of the lucky ones. Please note Pinyin is also used here, which Read more »
The Master-Of-Nets Garden is 网师园 one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou, which has also won the titles of world cultural heritage site, a scenic spot of national 4A level and historical and Read more »
Want to Get a Chinese Name ? Chinese Name Composition
Chinese names are usually composed of two or three characters, such as Liu Bang, Li Shimin, and Zhuge Liang. While Liu, Li, and Zhuge are family names, Bang, Shimin, and Liang are given names. In anci Read more »
Lingshu Jing (Classic of the Miraculous Pivot), or simply Lingshu for short, together with Su Wen(Questions of Fundamental Nature), is called Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon of Medicine, is one of th Read more »
Chinese Acrobatics Performance
With a history of more than three thousand years, Chinese acrobatics has been praised as “A pearl of Oriental art”. When watching a Chinese acrobatics show, you will be strongly attracted bot Read more »
The Tusu wine is made by immersing Chinese herbal medicines like rhubarb and the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes in wine. It can benefit the vital essence and warm yang, disperse cold, and expel Read more »
In the oracle bone inscriptions, “you” (友) is like two hands reaching out toward the same direction, symbolizing giving help with both hands. So the meaning of “you” is “people with a common goal and Read more »
Zidian” (character dictionary) is an exclusive concept of China. It is a reference book that provides form, pronunciation, meanings, usage and sample sentences of a character (or a word). Zidian cont Read more »
Are You Confused ,Chinese Norminal Age and Actual Age
It is said that in the world, perhaps only Chinese people have two ages, an actual age, and a nominal age. The actual "age" is easy to explain. But what is a nominal age? How to count it? That is rea Read more »
Ancient Doctor of China ---BianQue
Bian Que, also named Qin Yueren, lived in Bohai (present Renqiu City, Hebei Province) during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period. He was accomplished in curing all diseases, which mad Read more »
As a traditional calendar used in China, the lunar calendar is also called the calendar of the Xia Dynasty, middle calendar, and the old calendar. People also call it lunar ephemeris. In the calendar Read more »
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