Chinese culture

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Shanghai Lantern Festival

𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕: 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒚𝒋𝒊𝒏 ❀

Tea has a history of its own. In China, drinking tea is mostly a cultural thing with the majority of people drink tea throughout the day. In Chinese Culture, Tea was considered as an Elixir. Few basic knowledge of Tea Brewing, a decent quality Tea & a little bit of patience is all you need for a good Chinese Tea. Here is a post with few handy tips & steps to brew perfect Chinese Tea.

In recent years the market of Chinese art is widely reported to be among the hottest and fastest-growing in the world, attracting buyers all over the world. Observing from history of art, the Eastern painting has much difference with Western painting. It is probably because the eastern art attaches importance to subjectivity, and the western art places value upon objectivity. Therefore the traditional Chinese painting pays attention to romantic charm, while the western painting lays emphasis…

Among the many traditional musical instruments of China, the most popular nowadays include the stringed instruments called the erhu, pipa, and guzheng, and the dizi flutes. These stringed instruments originated in foreign regions and were modified. When tourists think of their experiences in China, the poignant sounds of these Chinese instruments often colour their memories. Erhu 二胡

During China's Ming and Qing dynasties, which together spanned the years 1386 to 1912, few in the Middle Kingdom, let alone elsewhere, could hope for even a glimpse of the finest Chinese artworks of their time.

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Chinese Colors - Chinese Culture - http://www.thechinesequest.com/2014/07/chinese-colors-chinese-culture/ - Words, phrases, gestures, all have different meanings in different cultures. And so do colors. We will even answer why Tiger Woods always wears a red shirt on Sunday’s at every golf tournament, and why Chinese colors have different meaning than in Western cultures. In the Chinese c...