China is a multi-national country with a long history and a vast territory.Its geographical environment and human factors are highly...
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Tiger-shaped stone，from Chinacapos；s Scenery by Okada Gyokuzan，published in 1802 Li Guang，a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty（BC 206-AD 25），shoots...
Mirror with human-animal fighting patterns, the Qin Dynasty (221-206), Yunmeng, Hunan province Hongmen Banquet-Xiang Zhuang performing sword dance The drawing...
In China, go is also referred to as "hand conversations,"through which players communicate with each other. In other words, they...
Go players have beautiful names for the pieces:"crow"for the black pieces, and "gull"forthe white ones. They are placed upon the...
A game of go has many implications for real life. It is for the appreciation of such inferences that go...
Cuju, or cuqiu, meaning "kick ball,"is a type of ancient Chinese football. Cuju was already called "football"during the Song Dynasty(960-1279),...
Controlling mobility with stillness is one of the characteristics of Chinese martial arts. For example, shadow boxing gives off a...
As one of the main sports to help people stay fit, taiji quan, or shadow boxing(known internationally as "tai chi...
When people talk of the martial arts, or kung fu, they most immediately think of Bruce Lee(1940-1973), and his great...
Civil residences south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are famous for their fresh and elegant styles and...
In southern Anhui Province, civil residential complexes with white walls and black tiles dot the green fields and lush mountains....
"The place the sun first shines upon is Jiantang in the east, and the most beautiful place in the human...
Though closed，a siheyuan is a compact world.Once inside the courtyard，there is a screen，behind which is the chuihua gate，or the inner...
China is a country of vast territory with many distinctive local customs, leading to the emergence of a rich range...
Drinking tea,a long-established custom popular with the Chinese people, is closely related to their life in a myriad of ways....
The Chinese people look to tea drinking as an art，which incorporates a wide range of knowledge；the taste of tea might...
When tea was first introduced to Europe，it was warmly accepted and even acclaimed as a "blessing from God，"and people went so...
Tea is a wonderful beverage originally produced in China about 4，000 years ago.During the Tang Dynasty（618-907），Japanese monks introduced tea seeds...
Chinese cooking attaches symbolic importance to the idea of making dishes by hand, and this is one reason for the...