Numbers came into use about 5 000 years ago in China.From“1"to“10"to hundred，thousand，ten thousand，the number system was complete even in Shang...
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The Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice indicates the period of winter and people always want to keep themselves warm.In the...
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 cemeteries are generally located on hillsides as this is thought to improve the feng shui.The further up the hill...
The keynote for funeral and memorial service is spiritual eternity and continuation of life after death.Death at old age is...
The wedding ceremony itself was simple.Bride and groom were led to the family altar，to pay homage to Heaven and Earth，the...
At wedding ceremony，paper-cut“Fish playing around lotus，"“Fish biting lotus，"“Lotus bearing seeds"and“Happy dolls"（baby with coiled hair holding a pair of fish）are pasted...
Ever since ancient times，there has been a saying that the three most delightful moments in one's life come with success...
It is said that the original purpose of giving each person a name was for convenience.Ancient people found that whenever...
In China，most people's names have two parts，the family names and the given names.One person may have different names.For example，when they...
Before the 1920s，women's garments remained two-piece，with little difference from Qing Dynasty garments.Shortly after the Revolution of 1911，as more Chinese students...
Since remote ages，people usually wore different clothes on different occasions. So far as individual clothes was concerned，there were civilian clothes，working...
Chinese clothing saw a rapid development during the Wei，Jin，and Southern and Northern dynasties（220-589）.Some time before 265，the cultures and esthetic views...
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...