Hundred Family Surnames: A Classic Work on The Chinese Surnames
The “Hundred Family Surnames” is a classic text containing hundreds of common Chinese surnames and is written in rhyme. First compiled in the early Song … Read more
Chinese Culture
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon: Earliest Text of TCM
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, known as Huangdi Neijing, is the earliest text on the theories and practices of traditional Chinese medicine. Compiled by several … Read more
The Story of Lady General Hua Mulan
Have you watched Mulan, the animated film produced by Walt Disney in the late 1990s? The story is based on a Chinese legend about Hua … Read more
The Story of Butterfly Lovers
In the West, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has long been one of the greatest stories ever told. It has also been recreated in … Read more
The Old Man Under the Moon
There is a very famous Chinese saying which goes like this: “The marriage of two people from thousands of miles away is brought together by … Read more
The Oath of the Peach Garden
During the final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 – 220), the government was corrupt and unable to carry out any good policies. In … Read more
Why Is There A Hanfu Fever Today?
In recent years, a wave of traditional Chinese clothing fever has been set off across the country. Why did the “Hanfu fever” appear? What controversies … Read more
What is Different about Chinese Wine Culture?
There are not only great differences in living habits, language culture, and hobbies between the East and the West but also great differences between Chinese … Read more
Different keywords of Chinese Culture in Different Generations
It is a rather interesting but also common phenomenon nowadays that when people of different generations gather together to talk about a certain topic, their … Read more