The Lantern Festival (or Yuan Xiao Festival in Chinese) is a traditional Chinese festival with great significance, which is on the 15th of the first lunar month, marking the end of New Year celebrations.
The Spring Festival holiday has officially ended and most Chinese have returned to work. This year's break, as always, was packed with events. Here we present the most memorable ones.
During the early 1910s to the late 1920s,women were not allowed to reveal their bodies and traditional dress code still dominated the society.
Cao Xueqin’s book A Dream of the Red Mansions, provides a good look at how a noble family in feudal China celebrated the Lunar New Year.
Spring Festival, which falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, is the most important festival in China and a time for family reunion, like Christmas in the West.
The zodiac animal for the next 12 months is causing great confusion in the English-language world, as its translation results in at least two candidates — sheep or goat.
Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Feb 11 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
A collection of Jack Ma’s ink and wash paintings was published in January 2015.
Yangko, a rural Chinese folk dance with a history dating back thousands of years, originates from farming life in ancient times.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Spring, the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb 4 and ends on Feb 18.
The sheep is one of the six domesticated animals. Ancient people regarded the sheep as a mild-tempered and auspicious animal.
According to Chinese culture, there are some taboos which you should bear in mind when you choose gifts for others. As the Chinese New Year is drawing near, which is also a gift giving season; it's necessary to review these taboos.
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