Swinging Swing, as a traditional sport and program on festive occasions, is very popular among the Hans and other minorities...
Chinese Literature and Arts
Mahjong Chinese gambling arts have a distant resource and a long stream through ages. They aresynthesized and brought to a...
Tug-of-War Tug-of-war was also known as pulling a hook or tugging a hook in the ancient times. It can be...
Seven-piece Puzzle A seven-piece puzzle, otherwise known as a seven-piece picture, is a famous jigsaw, which enjoys high popularity all...
Mend the Fold After a Sheep Is Lost During the Warring States Period, the State of Chu was not very...
An Illusory Snake in a Goblet In Jin Dynasty there was a man named Yue Guang who was fond of...
His Spear against His Shield A man of the state of Chu had a spear and a shield for sale....
Bringing the Painted Dragons to Life by Putting Pupils in Their Eyes During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, once lived...
A Foolish Man Buys Shoes In the past there lived a foolish man in a small kingdom called Zheng. One...
The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Terror One day a tiger was hunting around in a forest.An unlucky fox was caught...
Being an important part of the Chinese language and culture,Chinese idioms and fables are precious gems of Chinese wisdom.As a...
King of Yiyong Wu'an,ink drawing in the Song and Yuan dynasties,collected by Russian St.Peterburg Museum. Guan Yu is the embodiment...
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),...
In the latter half of the 18th century,a form of drama arose in France called "French Light and Shadow,"which caused...
Peking operaperformers onstage Depicting a "virtual world"is a distinctive feature of Peking Opera. Its virtuality consists of two aspects: one...
To Chinese people, going to the theater to enjoy Peking Opera or other artistic performances is known as "seeing plays."What...
China's Peking Opera radiates with the beauty of resplendent color-vivid, intense and glamorous. This artistic beauty comes not only from...