The Tang Dynasty Emperor Xuanzong，Li Longil，himselif an expert in music，re-organized imperial musicians into two departments of“standing performers”and“siting performers”. The standing...
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The Horse-headed fiddle is a bowed stringed-instrument with a scroll carved like a horses head.It is popular in Mongolian music.With...
Pipa（lute）originated in mesopotamia，and later became one of the popular musical instruments in Persia，where the short-necked pipa was called barbat and...
Konghou，an ancient stringed instrument，originated in Mesopotamia. In China，konghou was first produced in the Western Han Dynasty in the form of...
When humans in China first began to use tools thousands of years ago，they also fashioned crude musical instruments from stone，wood，and...
Su Shi made the greatest contribution to the development of ci poetry. He broke through the subtle and decadent style...
The Song Dynasty is the golden age of Ci in Chinese literature.Ci in-stead of regulated poetry could express more refined...
A Brief introduction to Poetry in Tang Dynasty The poetry in the Tang Dynasty was the culmination of the Chinese...
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival. It occurs in the middle of autumn...
Every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is held the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the ancient...
The Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Festival commemorates Qu Yuan，a patriotic poet from the State of Chu during the Warring...
The Fifteenth day of the first lunar month is an important traditional festival in China.Members of a family get together...
During the Spring Festival，each household pastes a big or small Chinese character“fu” on its entrance door or on walls inside...
Setting off firecrackers is a practice handed down from the remote past.It is related with burning bamboo stems.Bamboo stems have...
Since ancient times，Chinese people have adopted over a hundred kinds of calendars.The most widely observed are the yang li and...
After a xiangqin date，both the two families became involved in the preparation for the marriage engagement.A traditional engagement required a...
Xiangqin refers to a blind date where the couple involved has not met each other before.In ancient times，the xiangqin date...
A matchmaker is also called"the old man under the moonlight.” This saying originates from an ancient legend.As it says，there was...
In Chinese history the prescribed age of marriage varied.During the Zhou Dynasty，a man should be married by the age of...
Chinese marriage is usually referred to as a“Great Event in Life-time .” In ancient times，the marriage procedure usually consisted of...