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Foods for Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day)

As Qingming ("tomb sweeping") Festival and Cold Food Festival are on the same day, people in some places still have the custom of eating cold food on Qingming Festival. In Jimo of Shandong...

Traditional methods

Pour the boiled water into the pot till it is full and then pour the water out of the pot and into tea plate. That is a rather cultured way of putting in tea. Put a tea funnel near the mouth of pot and then put the tea-leaves into the pot by teaspoon...

Guilin, the Most Beautiful Landscape Scene

Enjoying the fame of being "the most beautiful landscape scene" even from ancient times, Guilin is an important tourism city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region...

Yixing Zisha Ceramic Making Skills

Yixing zisha ceramic handicraft skills are traditional folk ceramic making skills applied in Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. The skills dated back to Song and Yuan dynasties and were full-fledged in Ming Dynasty...

Li Ka-shing: A Wealthy Legend from Kung Fu Tea

When Li Ka-shing established his plastics manufacturing enterprise and began to produce plastic flowers with the technologies he learned from Italy, his business thrived very soon. Since the supply could not meet the demand...

Masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heritages: Xinjiang Muqam

Muqam Art of Xinjiang of China is a general reference to all the Muqams of various kinds popular in Uygur areas in Xinjiang. It is a large-scale comprehensive art form consisting of opera, dance and music...

Shaolin Sect

The Shaolin Sect of Kungfu has the widest coverage, the longest history and the largest number of boxing varieties in China’s central plains region. The sect gets its name from Shaolin Temple in the Songshan Mountains...

Iron Herb Crusher of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The medicine chests are made up of many small drawers where medical herbs are placed. On the outer side of the drawers are the names of different herbs...

Paint a Chicken

This is a poem on painting. With common and fluent words, the poet described a beautiful and miraculous rooster with snow-white feather and scarlet cockscomb...

Peking Opera of China

Peking Opera, despite the name, is not indigenous to Beijing. Its predecessor was a local opera form performed by Anhui troupes in regions around the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the mid-17th Century...

Chinese Sports on the World Stage

On July 13, 2001, China won the bid for 2008 Olympic Games. In September, China successfully held the 21st Universiade. These events greatly promoted the development of China’s sports cause...