A 1000-year-old Chinese divorce settlement agreement was unearthed in 1900 from Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in Gansu Province. The following is a rough translation of this Tang Dynasty divorce agreement: We all know when a man and a woman become a couple, they love each other. The cause for a man and a woman to become a couple is rooted in […]
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What is the Origin of Duanwu Dragon Boat Festival? Boat racing and zongzi on Duanwu festival was initially created to pay tribute to Qu Yuan (343 BC – 278 BC), one of China’s greatest poets and statesmen. Qu Yuan was a high official of Chu Kingdom during the Warring States era. To be wrongly accused by a group of corrupt […]
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Lake No Worries (Mochou 莫愁湖), located west to Qinhuai River with a total area 32 hectares, was a man-made waterway created about 1,500 years ago. It was initially called Stone City Lake, and assumed the current name in tribute to a local woman maned Mochou known for her beauty, talent and miserable life. As a huge pond in the urban centre of […]
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In 2014, a group of 1,500-year-old state-owned huge grain storages were unearthed in Luoyang, Henan province. The 700 storages were found to be built during the Sui Dynasty (581-619), by then Luoyang was Chinese capital and Henan. The grains stored in the warehouses would be released during the times of crises, such as feminine due to natural disaster or social […]
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Maybe in their games, the winner is the one who runs slower than anyone else. 😁 COMMENTS ON FEBRUARY 14, 2018, FROM GOOGLE PLUS Arien N. Hammell The dog is a clever creature who knows that he does not need to stoop to manual labor to get to where he needs to go. Just look at how fast he’s getting […]
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A Daoist Temple in a Cave COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Sheila Nagig I love the red that the Chinese use. It’s such a strong, beautiful shade of the color. All Things Chinese From Taoist point of view, deep red (China Red) is a color attracting the maximum yang qi, while the black and white reflecting the extreme yin energy, which […]
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In the Gaofeng High Summit Hill in Sichuan Province, there are 8 ridges like eight dragons looking back at the mountain peak, and over 500 aging pine trees, some as old as a thousand years, all stretching their branches towards that same apex of the mountain. There are 4 gates located in the 4 directions respectively as entrances to a […]
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Shanghai museum houses tens of thousands of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, but only four that has a “semi-transparent” quality, and this is one of them. An Over 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Mirror that Is Semi-Transparent The mirror, unearthed from a West Han (206 BC – 24 AD) tomb, weights 50 g and measures 7.4 cm in diameter. If you hold it against […]
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What Is Qi? This jade elephant was unearthed from Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC) archaeological site Yinxu (殷墟) in Henan in northern China. 3000 years ago, the area in today’s Henan Province was a native habitat of elephants. COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Mile HsiangYang Lee: HENAN PROVINCE – 3000 Years Ago? 😮 ELEPHANTS? 😮 But No Elephants in […]
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Mt. Wudang, the Biggest Daoist Hub in China Daoist temples began to appear in Mt Wudang since Lao Tzu and Confucius time 2,500 years ago. But Mt. Wudang was developed into a Daoist hub hundreds years later during the Weijin South North Dynasties (魏晋南北朝) around the 3rd and the 4th centuries, the time when the story of Nirvana in Fire, […]
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What Is Qigong Qi is infomation energy that supports our life, and Qigong is a kung fu of qi, an art to manage and empower the qi within our body and beyond. Qigong is the integral part of all Chinese kung fu, be it as vigorous as Shaolin or as gentle as Taichi. The only difference is the proportion between the tangible […]
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This is a giant village house supported by 1,322 timber columns, located in the outskirts of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. Shaoxing is an ancient city with a rich cultural tradition and the homeland to some prominent figures in Chinese history, including the greatest hydraulic engineer and last ruler of Xia Dynasty Yu the Great (大禹, 4,000 BC), China’s greatest calligrapher […]
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