Traditionally，Chinese people do not pay a lot of attention to birthdays until they are 60 years old.The 60th birthday is...
Culture
The Elder day is the Double-Nine Festival，the 9th day of 9th lunar month.The Chinese called this festival Chong-Yang Jie. The...
The challenges of population aging are daunting for any country，but especially so for China.Unlike developed countries where economic development preceded...
The Chinese government has acknowledged the consequences of rapid population aging and has started to address them in various policies...
Meefing the Health and Long-term Care Problem Meeting the health and long-term care needs of this growing elderly population will...
Heavy Burden The huge aging population brings various social and economical problems to China，which is stll a developing country.The elderly...
China is well anticipated to become the second nation immediately after Japan that will suffer a rapid aging of its...
Aging Population to Slow Economy China's one-child policy has led to an aging population and labor shortages that could undermine...
The Changing of Family Structure China has changed dramatically in recent years，including the changing of family structure.In traditional Chinese society，the...
In late 1970s，China entered into a period of“opening to the outside world.”With the great change in the fields of politics，economy...
In the 1960s，what exerted the greatest impact on Chinese marriage standard was the extreme leftism arising in the political movement.From1961，family...
After the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949，the old marriage system set up on the basis of...
The color red is considered good luck，a strong color that can keep away evil spirits.The traditional Chinese wedding dress in...
Double Happiness Each half of the symbol is the standard character for happiness，writen “hsi”or“xi，”and pronounced something like“she”in Mandarin（high level tone，the...
Chinese Wedding Cakes Chinese wedding cakes are called“Happiness Cakes"，also known as “Dragon&Phoenix Cakes".These are baked cake with dragon and phoe-...
Day After the Wedding On the day after the wedding，the bride awoke early to attend honoring the ancestors at dawn.It...
The Wedding Banquets Generally，separate wedding feasts were given by the parents of the bride and the groom for their respective...
Lotus seeds and two red dates are used in the tea for two reasons. First，the words“lotus"and“year，"“seed"and“child，"and“date”and“early，”are homophones，i.e.they have the same...
The Bride's Journey to the Groom's House The“good luck woman"or a dain，employed by the bride's family to look after the...
The“Capping”Ritual Dressed in a long gown，red shoes and a red silk sash with a silk ball on his shoulder，the groom...