Chinese Culture and History
China, as one of the Four Ancient Civilizations, boasts a vast geographic expanse, 3,600 years of written history, as well as a rich and profound culture. The guide contains articles on national traditons, the arts in China, Chinese food, Chinese festival, Kung Fu and Beijing opera.
Chinese Mahjong
No matter when you walk on a city street or come to a country yard in China, you will probably see a few people (usually 3-5 people) gathering to a crowd, playing with some small plastic squares with Chinese characters and simple images on one side. Yes, they are playing Chinese Mahjong.
Chinese Mahjong (Chinese: 麻將; pinyin: m jing) as a kind of leisure game in China has ab
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Religions and Beliefs
In the last centuries of imperial rule in China, religious life was omnipresent, with a proliferation of temples, shrines, door gods and protective house deities. Life-cycle rites and festivals peppered the lives of ordinary individuals.
For such people, religious life was a mixture of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and local beliefs and practices. Neither Taoism nor Buddhism had much organiza
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Maritime History of China
It was once generally held that the Chinese people, as with so many other firsts within the all-embracing field of human endeavor, invented the phenomenon of piracy. This would not be so surprising, and in fact paradoxically attests to the advanced state of Chinese culture at a time when most of the rest of us were still swinging from lianas while eating bananas, for the existence of Chinese pi
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Chinese Architecture
Rapid economic development and city expansion in contemporary China have brought numerous opportunities for architects both inside and outside China.
Whether they are architects form the Chinese mainland or famous international architects, their preoccupations are about trying to find appropriate design concepts, principles and methods in such a rapidly changing environment.
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Chinese Architecture
The Silk Road
The term Silk Road (Seidenstrassen, in German) was first coined by the German geographer, Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (1833-1905), uncle of the famous Great War (WWI) German fighter pilot, Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron, in Ferdinand von Richthofens book, China: Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegrundeter Studien (China: The results of My Travels and the Studies
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