About 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty (商朝), there was a military commander named Li Jin (李靖). Li Jing had a son called Nezha (哪吒) and oddly had no bathroom in his big mansion. When Nezha was seven, on an unseasonably hot day in May, the boy told his mother he was going to take a bath in a […]
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Ancient Shanghai city wall near the Bund, 1850. COMMENTS FROM MINDS soxfan1957 Would have loved to walk around this. All Things Chinese Shanghai city walls are no longer there, demolished about 100 years ago. Eric I am constantly amazed at how the people in ancient time, Roman Collisium as an example, can stand for thousands of years while we in […]
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Square dance in the neighbourhood open space in the early morning and evening has been very popular in China for more than a decade. A scene from The Wild Goose Lake, a Chinese crime movie nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes early this year. People enjoyed square dance in a semi-developed urban area (城乡结合部) in the outskirts of Wuhan, […]
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Ma Haifang (马海方) is a Chinese artist born and grew up in Beijing’s outskirts. Below are some of his works illustrating the lives of the ordinary rural and city folks in Beijing in the last century. A summer afternoon in an old Beijing village. COMMENTS FROM MINDS soxfan1957 Aaaah! The old fashion back scratcher. One of the best inventions ever. […]
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Classics of Mountains and Seas (山海经) is a collection of Chinese mythology, geography and medicine compiled about 3,000 to 2,500 years ago. Here are some mythical creatures depicted in the book. A beast with a dragon head and horse body known as the deity of Mt. Zhongshan. COMMENTS FROM MINDS Eric Very interesting how these seem to mirror western myths. […]
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The lakes disappeared for more than 300 years from the Gobi Desert around Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province in China’s northwest have reappeared recently. COMMENTS FROM MINDS Eric Global warming and rising sea levels or melting snow ?? 🤔🤔🤔 or a strange quirk of nature. 😁 soxfan1957 It’s the shifting sands of time. All Things Chinese There are many causes and […]
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Feng Zikai (1897-1975) was China’s first and one of the best comic artists, as well as a highly accomplished writer, calligrapher, translator and educator in music and painting. His museum in his birthplace Stone Gate Town in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, is China’s only comic museum. Here are some of his comic work. A Sun Rises from the West A green sun […]
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Golden Rooster Awards Festival 2019 took place between November 21 and 23 in China’s beach city Xiamen, Fujian Province Golden Rooster Awards (金鸡奖), created in 1981, is the most prestigious film award in the Chinese language world. While this year’s film festival is the 32nd, it is also the first since it has been upgraded to an annual event. Previously, the […]
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It is reported by Chinese media Liaowang Weekly that Hong Kong protesters are getting paid $700 per day just to show up. Violent actions and recruiting others get big money — up to $7000. NED openly admits on its website that it funds anti-China groups in Hong Kong (Source: @CaliCali200) The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization with […]
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Beijing Capital Airport was opened in 1958 and by now it is the world’s second-busiest behind Atlanta in the US, thus the second Beijing airport has been built in Daxing to take the pressure off the overcrowded existing international terminal in southern Beijing. The new Daxing International Airport is situated 46km south of the city centre in the historically backward […]
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Chinese Wedding Photos in the 1900s It was a time when China was still under Manchu’s rule and the traditional Chinese culture, including costumes, were forcibly replaced by Manchu style. By then taking a wedding photo was not an essential part of the wedding process. A wedding photo of a court official and his wife Chinese Wedding Photos in the 1910s […]
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Ancient water town Qiandeng (千灯) is located in Suzhou’s Kunshan, where Kunqu, the mother of all Chinese operas, was originated. The waterfront of most Chinese towns are traditionally allocated as public space. In Qiandeng, an eleborated pavilion is also erected in the form of a boat, which can be used for Kungqu opera performance. The main shopping street of Qiandeng […]
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