Chinese characters usually have more than one meaning. Chinese people love certain characters in particular. A list of the top 10 most auspicious ones follows. Please note that the Chinese phonetic system for characters, pin yin, is also used here. For example, “fu” is pin yin for good luck in Chinese, but “fu” is only ...
In traditional Chinese culture, the custom to consider the left side of the body as male and the right side as female seems to have permeated all aspects of people’s daily lives. How did this custom come into being? According to legend, when Pangu, the ancestor of the Chinese people, became a deity, his body ...
The question of race vs. culture is something that has been bothering psychologists for a long time. Are we the products of our race, culture, or a combination of both? Shen Yun Principal Dancer Kenji Kobayashi believes that it is one’s culture that plays a major role in defining a person. A person from two ...
Well goes an old saying: “Of all virtues, filial piety is the first (百善孝為先).” It is the traditional virtue of respecting and caring for one’s parents and ancestors. The Chinese character for filial piety The Chinese character 孝 xiao is made up of two parts. The upper part is the character 老 (lao), which denotes ...
Chinese lanterns, also called colored lanterns, originated in China approximately 1,800 years ago during the Western Han Dynasty. Every year, during the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, people hang up red lanterns to create a festive atmosphere because lanterns are a symbol of reunion. Since the Western ...
For pet owners, their pets are part of the family. As such, losing their pets can be psychologically taxing to the owners. In China, a private detective is offering to find your missing pet, basically becoming the first-ever pet detective in the country. The pet detective Detective Sun Jinrong began offering his service to find ...
Is there punishment in the afterlife? Ye Zhuliang, a village scholar from a poor family in Huaixi, made his living as a teacher. One day, a rich man by the name of Ma, who lived in the same town, hired Ye to educate his two sons. Soon, Ye earned the respect and kind treatment of ...
In China, during the Cultural Revolution, much damage was done to both the Chinese people and China’s traditional culture. Temples were looted. Relics, temples, scrolls, and books containing vast amounts of cultural heritage were burned and destroyed under the red gaze of the Cultural Revolution. What many people don’t know is that the Cultural Revolution ...
To save her father, a young girl courageously wrote a petition to the Emperor 2,000 years ago. Ban Gu (A.D. 32-92), a Chinese historian and politician, wrote a poem in her praise. The courageous daughter was Chunyu Tiying of the Han Dynasty. Tiying‘s father, Chunyu Yi, rose from a humble beginning in Shandong Province, China, ...
Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism are the three pillars of Chinese philosophy and have influenced all thinking and actions in China since their inception. Confucianism Confucianism is represented by Confucius (founder, 551-479 B.C.), Mencius, and Xunzi. Literary works include The Analects, the Mencius, and the Xunzi. It is the first important philosophy from the Warring States ...
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