Archive for September, 2006
Teasing the Newly-Weds on the Wedding Nights
Teasing the Newly-Weds on the Wedding Nights Teasing newly-weds often takes place on the wedding night, regarded as the last but best program of the whole ceremony, besides the bride and bridegroom, the participants are mainly their peers. They design all kinds of programs such as kissing, biting an apple, offering cigarettes hitting balloons by [...]
The New Shanghai a city called Chongqing
The New Shanghai a city called Chongqing When to Visit: The city is also known as one of China’s three “furnaces” or “ovens”, along with Wuhan and Nanjing. Chongqing is notorious for it’s sticky, steamy 40-degree summers, as such, it is best avoided between May and August. Winters are mild, but temperatures can drop [...]
The Torch Festival of Yi Nationality in Liang Mountain
The Torch Festival of Yi Nationality in Liang Mountain In the west of Sichuan province, there’s a rich land–the Yi autonomous prefecture of Liang Mountain. This land is abundant in beautiful hills and water. It is called “the golden belt between Sichuan and Yunnan province”. Yi nationality lives and keeps their unique and old culture [...]
The Twelve Zodiac Animals
The Twelve Zodiac Animals Animals of the Chinese Zodiac Introduction The Chinese lunar calendar dates back to the second millennium BC. Unlike our calendar, which numbers the years progressively from a given time (the birth of Christ), the Chinese calendar is cyclical. Each cycle is made up of 12 years; after the 12th year, the [...]
The Water Splashing Festival
The Water Splashing Festival (The Dai New Year) Dai nationality has a population of over 840,000 , They live mainly in Xishuangbanna known as “Land of Peacocks ” and Dehong Prefectures in which people believe in Hinayana of Buddhism. Dai people have a long history. They are characteristic of a gentle disposition. They are good-looking [...]
No Sneezing
No Sneezing In China, it’s not god bless you, it’s a phenomenon is very common that if someone sneezes the people near by may jokingly say “Good live to ripe old age.” “Or the sneezer says to himself thinking out a loud “who is missing me?” or who is thinking of me? Initially, people regard [...]
Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China. [...]
Laba Festival
Laba Festival Laba, meaning the eight day of the 12th lunar month, is regarded as the prelude to the Spring Festival. Laba took shape in the Han Dynasty. La is a kind of sacrifice in acient times. From the emperor to his subjects, all celebrated the festival. At the beginning of the Southern Dynasty, Lari [...]
Information about Shanghai
Introduction to Shanghai Shanghai, with a total population of 13 million (7 million of which are urban) and an area of 6340 square km, is favorably located geographically for being a leading international city. It abuts the Pacific Ocean on the east, the Hangzhou Bay on the south, the Yangtze River estuary 28 km on [...]
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival The fifth Day of the fifth lunar month is observed as a traditional Chinese festival, also called “Duanyang”, “Chongwu” (Double Fifth), “Zhongyuan Festival”, Mulan Festival”. It has different versions of the ordinal such as from vicious suns, from the Summer Solstice and from Dila (a sacrifice ceremony) and the like. However, some [...]
