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Chinese Culture: Zhongyuan Festival (中元节)
Zhongyuan Festival, also called Ghost Festival, is specified at the date of July 15th in Chinese lunar calendar, though it is celebrated on various dates of lunar July in different regions.
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Famous Boats in Ancient China
The shipbuilding in China enjoys a history almost as long as the development of mankind.
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Chinese Culture: Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)
Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the lunar August, the middle of the autumn, usually happens between the early September to early October in western calendar.
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Ancient Clepsydras
Lou (water clock) is an idiom used by ancient Chinese equivalent to today's "clock".
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The Earliest “Refrigerator” – Bronze Jian
When you use the refrigerator, have you ever think about the earliest refrigerator was made of bronze?
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The Oldest Contour Canal in the World: Lingqu Canal
Lingqu Canal, the oldest contour canal in the world is one of the three big water conservation projects of ancient China
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Dagger-axe
The dagger-axe or ge a Chinese invention, was developed from agricultural stone implement during the Neothilic.
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The earliest use of turtle shells
Turtle shells were used as rattles or tools from long long ago in China.
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Fork
The fork had been used in China long before the chopstick.
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Gourd Bomb, a kind of gunpowder weapon
“Gourd Bomb” is a kind of gunpowder weapon originally created by the Yi ethnic group in Ailao Mountain in Yunnan Province. It is a small-sized hand-thrown bomb or rather a grenade with gourd as
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Farming and Sericulture
You must be familar with the famous Silk Road. The sericulture gave birth to those wonderful silk which shocked the whole world.
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Medicine
Chinese medicine is famous all around the world. It is unbelievable useful and greatly mysterious.
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About Swordswoman Riding West on White Horse
The White Horse in the West Wind(白马啸西风Báimǎ Xiàoxīfēng ) is a well-known Wuxia novella by Louis Cha. The title in Chinese can be roughly translated to White Horse Neighing in the West W
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The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber of China
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber(倚天屠龙记Yĭtiān túlóng jì) is a Chinese famous Wuxia novel by The Louis Cha, who is known as Jin Yong(金庸Jīn Yōng).
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About A Deadly Secret
“A Deadly Secret”(连城诀Liánchéngjué) is a famous Wuxia novel by Louis Cha (aka Jin Yong). It is alternately translated as Requiem of Ling Sing. It was first published in the Southeast Asia
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Chinese Culture: Popular Family Dishes in China (家常小菜)
Today, I will introduce the popular family dishes in China, famous local food of top tourist cities and Chinese restaurants. 今天我将介绍中国有名的家常小菜,旅游胜地的名菜以及中国餐馆。
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About Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
It was first published on the 3 September, Year 1963 on the newspapers Ming Pao in Hong Kong/Chinese and Nanyang Siang Pau in Singapore.
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About the Wuxia (Martial Arts) Novels
Wuxia novel(武侠小说wǔxiá xiăoshuō) is a Chinese novel genre, which features martial arts heroes, i.e. swordsmen and those related to them, with the plot dedicating to the intricate(you use i
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Martial Art and Chinese Literature
Earliest literature work on the martial art or chivalrous(a chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women) characters was Records of the Grand Historian, a masterpiece f
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About Jianghu: The World of Martial Arts
Jianghu(江湖jiānghú) is a shared world and an alternate universe. It consists of several martial artists and pugilists gathered in the Wulin(武林wǔlín), who are usually congregated in clans,