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[Customs]
Spring Festival
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon(新月)on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon(满月)15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival(元宵
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[Customs]
About Procelain from the Yuan to the Qing Dynasties
In the Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen already had ability to mass-produce fine blue and white porcelain(ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic). T
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[Customs]
Yixing Red Ware
A girl shows a gold screen artwork(photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication) with the image of rabbits in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province.
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[City Guide]
Beijing Craftworks
These craftworks distinguished by their dense eastern styleare the best choice of souvenir for the visitors. You can pick up one or twoof them for yourself or friends from antiquemarkets or featu
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[Movies&TV]
Youth dream
《Youth Dream》——伦敦奥运献礼片,是由北京电影学院的学生组织发起拍摄的世界各国青年人为即将到来的奥运会的献礼,表现的是我们当代青年对梦想的执著追求,对伦敦奥运会的期待。
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[Customs]
膏药 Plaster
Herbal plaster originated in China a long time ago and is one of five types of traditional Chinese medicine.During the Qing Dynasty, herbal plasters became popular medicine for external use.
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[Travel]
What to buy in China?
China has myriads of souvenirs to offer to its visitors. Just to name a few: silks, embroideries, brocades, traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, furniture and so on.
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[Travel]
The weather in China
In China, a vast land spanning many degrees of latitude with complicated terrain, climate varies radically. China has a variety of temperature and rainfall zones, including continental monsoon ar
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[Basic Dialogue]
How to Catch Taxi
When you are lost in China, the best way and convenient way is just to catch taxi.Plesse use easy and clear Chinese to communicate with driver.
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[Customs]
Business Hours in China
The Chinese government stipulates a five-day workweek with no more than 8 hours a day and no more than 44 hours a week in the Labor Law of People's Republic of China.
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[Customs]
Tibetan Opera - Dancing China
Tibetan Opera, also called "the living fossil of Tibet culture", is an ancient art form that has developed over the centuries,was added to the UNESCO's World Intangible Culture Heritage List.
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[Movies&TV]
Gates make anti-smoking call video
Bill Gates attends an anti-smoking campaign ahead of the 25th World No-Tobacco Day, in Beijing, May 29.World No-Tobacco Day falls on May 31 every year.
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[Reading]
10 trends within China's smartphone industry in 2016
China's smartphone market will likely see a single-digit growth in 2016 after years of fast expansion, with total sales of 450 million, according to a latest industry consultancy report.
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[Reading]
Empress Wu Zetian in China
The TV drama The Empress of China is hot among audiences recently. Actress Fan Bingbing, who plays the role of Empress Wu Zetian, is a fabulous beauty. What did Wu Zetian, China's only female mon
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[Daily News]
Chinese New Year's Eve resumed as holiday
Chinese people will be able to start their week of New Year celebrations -- Spring Festival -- from lunar New Year's Eve again, a date excluded from the holiday last year.
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[Customs]
Food for the Winter Solstice
The winter solstice is an important solar term in the lunar calendar in China, which is also a traditional festival. Today, residents in many places maintain their customs of celebrating the fest
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[Speaking]
Talking in Taobao
Shopping on Taobao isn’t quite as simple as asking “How much?” and promptly exchanging money for goods and services. Taobao has enfranchised a generation of internet shopkeepers, a group that
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[Food]
Beijing's Best Barbecue
You’d think our summer diets would lean more towards chilled noodles and frozen yoghurt.Alas, we are a complex species and would rather swarm around open flames, gripping spiced wings and saucy
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[City Guide]
Old Shanghai, China's Frontier City
Old Shanghai was a wild place, dangerous and full of intrigue; it was a frontier city.East met the West, North met the South, and good and evil mixed together on the seedy streets of this “Paris
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[Customs]
The Era of Being Something-ed
被(bèi),on its own, it’s a boring, functional word—a particle for passive voice sentences; it can also mean “blanket.” Yet events this year made it surprisingly popular.