Category Archives: Chinese Culture

In August 1582, the third Italian, Matteo Ricci who was born in 1552 in Macerata, today a city in the Italian region of Marche, arrived at Macau, a Portuguese trading post on the South China Sea coast where he learned … Continue reading →

In a very famous and popular book, The Travels of Marco Polo, a merchant named Marco Polo from the ancient Venetian Republic, traveled with his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo, through Asia, Persia, China and met the Kublai Khan … Continue reading →

Along the northern China, there lays an ancient dragon outstretching his body in a region which is several hundred kilometers from North to South and several thousand kilometers from East to West to defend our ancient civilization for over two … Continue reading →

Terra-cotta figures were well made for the purpose of accompanying the deceased in their afterlife, a concept strongly believed by ancient Chinese. Our ancestors considered death a beginning of another life, the dead should be looked after as if they … Continue reading →

In 41BC, Han Dynasty Emperor Jing Di Liu Qi passed away after 16 years of struggle against his kinsmen and the Huns. He was buried in a chamber covered with a huge earth mound, which was surrounded by an imperial … Continue reading →

I’ve been to many relics of different walls: Qin Dynasty Great Wall, Ming Dynasty, Great Wall, Xi’an City Wall, my home town village wall etc, I can say in China almost everywhere you could find a wall. 6,000 years ago, … Continue reading →

In Beijing, travelers would enjoy the local Peking duck, and TsingtaoBeer from Qingdao city.  Some people will visit friends who’s studying in one of the best universities in China—Peking University.  It sounds really odd to have different names for cities, … Continue reading →

The Gregorian calendar was adopted by the Republic of China on January 1, 1912 for official business, but the ordinary populace still used our traditional calendar. After 1949, as a civil calendar, the Gregorian calendar had been widely accepted across … Continue reading →

Chinese traditional calendar is a lunisolar one and it has a recorded history of almost 4,000 years. We found on the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions the evidence and at that time the Sexagenary cycle (a Chinese Cyclic numeral system … Continue reading →

The story happened at the beginning of the 1980s. Before I went to school, my father was studying Chinese literature as his major at the Open University to obtain his missed qualification due to the 10 year long Cultural Revolution. … Continue reading →