Four years ago，the gigantic west-to-east gas pipeline project was overwhelmed with doubts over whether there was enough demand for gas....
Culture
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...
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...
In the West,a separate meal for each person has been the practice since ancient times. Even at a banquet, people...
The names of Chinese dishes are diverse, but behind each of the famous dishes is an interesting story explaining why...
It is widely acknowledged that from the Ming（1368-1644）and Qing（1616-1911）dynasties onwards，there arose eight schools of cuisine，respectively from Shandong，Sichuan，Guangdong，Fujian，Jiangsu，Zhejiang，Hunan，and Anhui provinces.In addition...
stage costumes are an important part of traditional Chinese clothing. They have developedfrom ordinary clothes and embodied many characteristics of...
About 2,000 years ago, wax printing appeared in China, with batiks being found among the goods traded along the Silk...
The cheongsam(known in China as qipao), which enjoyed initial popularity in the 1920s, was first designed by Shanghai people, combining...
An important moment of the APEC Summit occurs when heads of member states pose for the collective photograph of all...