Welcome to Year of Black Rabbit 2023
Welcome to Black Rabbit year 2023, the last year in the 8th Phase of the big time circle, a turning…
Laba Congee Festival, Warm Up to Chinese New Year
A month-long Chinese New Year Festival Season begins with a bowl of nuts-rich congee consumed on lunar December 8.
Borrow the East Wind
According to Song Dynasty I Ching master Shao Kangjie's Book of Huangji Jingshi (皇极经世书), a book about the past and…
Welcome to Year of Marine Tiger 2022
Attributes of Tiger in Fengshui - Five Agents: Wood in Jungle Colour: White Location: West
Laughing Buddha
About a thousand years ago, there was an itinerant Buddhist monk named Qici (契此) wandering around in the area on…
A Message On A Brocade
in the early morning of a day in 1995, Mr. East Congregation raised a brand new Five Star Chinese national…
A Donkey Lost Its Plot
There was no donkey in this mountain until a boat shipped one from afar across the waterway to the region.…
Three I Chings
I Ching (Yi Jing 易经) is the very foundation of Daoism and Chinese culture. But I Ching that we normally…
Winter Solstice 2020
The 24 solar terms in the Chinese calendar are determined by, not a human ruler's will, but the pulse of…
Chinese Dialects
For thousands of years, Chinese people speak in hundreds of different dialects but use only one script, Han Characters, which…
The Code of the Universe on an Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirror
In ancient China, mirrors, which are normally made of bronze, were often viewed as more than just instruments for reflection;…
China’s Classic Literature – Xiwen
Odes of the Warrior States era, rhymed essays of the Han Dynasty, couplet-style essays of the Wei-Jin age, poems of…
Five Epidemic Demons
In Chinese mythology, epidemics are caused by Five Epidemic Demons with five pairs of evil eyes, all having a human…
Selected Classic Chinese Quotations
The words one speaks going forth contrary to his claimed ethics will come back to catch up with him sooner…
People Who Communicate with Hidden Forces
In the mountainous west Hunan Province in China’s southern inland region, there are many remote villages where the mysterious practice to…
Ancient Chinese Currency
Chinese is one of the first people to use currency instead of real goods to conduct trade activities. China’s Bronze…
Portraits of Stars and Planets
In Chinese mythology, most beings in the celestial worlds more or less look like humans. The difference between the bodies…
Ancient Chinese Written-Language
The Oracle Turcle Script is considered the earliest form of Chinese characters by archaeologists. But the evidence unearthed lately disputes…