Chinese Culture

Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse to all our readers! On the night of December 31, …

Zheng Xie (1693-1765), better known by his art name Zheng Banqiao, was a celebrated painter and calligrapher of …

During the Tang Dynasty, Wang Yan, an official who served the crown prince, once remarked that the events …

The popular Hulu and Disney+ series Interior Chinatown is adapted from Charles Yu’s 2020 National Book Award-winning novel …

Chinese scholars have long cherished orchids for what they represent: refinement, elegance, and inner purity. Within China’s millennia-old …

During the Qing Dynasty, an official named Liao Yiqing once recounted a true story that circulated near his …

If you were to find someone else’s money lying on the ground, would you keep it? For people …

During the Qing Dynasty, a poor scholar surnamed Ding lived in Tianjin. His family circumstances were modest, and …

What does it mean to “yield”? Is it a form of weakness, or a deliberate choice rooted in …

In 1843, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a very special fairy tale called “The Nightingale.” This is the only …