Chinese Culture

An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words, but that has …

Chinese names can be puzzling for those not familiar with the Chinese language and culture. In the Chinese …

The 8 Cardinal Virtues refer to 忠 (zhōng), 孝 (xiào), 仁 (rén), 愛 (ài), 信 (xìn), 義 (yì), …

There is a traditional Chinese story about an immortal female named San Shengmu, who fell in love with …

There is a traditional Chinese story where it was said that there was a small flying mountain in …

There are many popular Chinese phrases that are based on the Chinese character for tiger, 虎 (pronounced hǔ). …

The Eight Trigrams of Bagua (八卦) are eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology to understand the organization of life and the universe, and …

Physiognomy, or Chinese face reading, has a history of several thousand years in China. Most of us are …

Is it possible to walk or dance on the water? Apparently, yes by means of ancient Chinese art …

Twenty-Four Histories, which is also known as the Standard Histories (zhengshi 正史), is a collection of Chinese official historical books that covers …