Chinese Culture

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The Perfumed Bags

A perfumed bag is also called "a lotus bag." They are tokens of love in old times. Now they are primarily used as presents and main function being to solicit happiness and to drive out evil spirits.
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Silver Ornaments of the Miao Ethnic Group

Miao women's festive attire includes a variety of silver decorations. The purpose of wearing silvers is primarily aesthetic, but it also shows affluence and is thought to ward off evil spirits.
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The Book of Songs

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China. It contains 305 poems created over a period of some 500 years from the 11th century BC476 BC.
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Ci Poetry of the Song Dynasty

Ci is one of the forms of ancient poetry and can be sung to music. As the length of the lines in a ci poem can differ, it is also called "long and short-line verses"
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Poetry of the Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty witnessed the zenith of Chinese ancient poetry, with Some 50,000 poems and the names of 2,300 poets of that period widely known today.
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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is the traditional art of writing Chinese characters. It is one of “Four Treasures of the Study”. To learn calligraphy, one first has to learn how to use a Chinese brush.
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Traditional Chinese Painting

It is an art of painting on a piece of Xuan paper or silk with Chinese a brush soaked with black ink or colored pigments. It is one of the “three quintessence of Chinese culture”.
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Traditional Chinese Medical Science and Medicine

Chinese people knew how to safeguard their health by medical science and drugs long ago. Legend has it that Shennong Shi of ancient times once tasted 100 herbs in person to distinguish herbal plants.
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Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy

Acupuncture therapy involves jabbing specially made metal needles of different length into the patient's body at certain acupuncture points, treating the patient by twirling or lifting the needles.
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Chinese Cuisine

Chinese cuisine enjoys the same international reputation to that of France and Italy for its scent, taste, and design. Since China has a vast territory, the flavor of food is quite diverse.
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Ice Lanterns

Crystal-clear ice lanterns of various shapes and sizes are a wintertime work of art and a folk recreational activity unique to the north.
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Chinese Opera Facial Make-up

Opera facial make-up originates from totem in ancient times.It plays the artistic functions of enabling the audience to get a glimpse of the inner world of actors through their symbolic facial make-up.