Of the 6,000 languages in existence today, only a hundred have their own alphabets. Of these 100, the Hangul alphabet is the only alphabet made by an individual for which the theory and motives behind its creation have been fully set out and explained. The Korean Hangul alphabet, which today has become a visual ambassador ...
As a famous signature rice cultivation area, Chihshang Township (池上鄉) is located in Taiwan’s Taitung County (台東縣) in the East Rift Valley (花東縱谷) between the Central Range (中央山脈) and the Coastal Range (海岸山脈). The area features chewy rice. Please watch the following video of Chihshang Township in Taiwan: Alluvial soils with nutrient-rich organisms, coupled with ...
It is important to understand the yin-yang of foods. In an earlier article on food for health and wellness, you learned about the Japanese dish yuki nabe, or “snow” hot pot, made with daikon and tofu. This article is about why a dish of fish and burdock root, known as gobo in Japanese, is a ...
While fabrics marketed as organic bamboo clothing are gaining popularity worldwide, it turns out that no organic bamboo textiles have actually been certified. Behind the apparent fraud is the Chinese industry giant Tenbro. The amount of “organic” bamboo fabric Tenbro exports annually is 20 times greater than the amount of American-produced organic cotton exported annually. ...
Few know that pasta originates from ancient China. After spreading throughout Asia, it’s said that Chinese noodles found their way to Italy around the 8th century. In this recipe, Japanese buckwheat soba noodles saddle up for a new twist on an Italian favorite — spaghetti. Enjoy it with a Sergio Leone film and call it ...
The most famous sauce in traditional Chinese cuisine is soy sauce. It is made by fermenting soybeans and roasted cracked wheat with brine in wooden containers that are regularly opened to release gases and to stir the mixture. After a year of slow fermentation, the resulting mash is pressed to expel soy sauce. The liquid ...
Located in northern Taiwan’s Yilan County, the Luodong Forestry Culture Garden (羅東林業文化園區) was opened to the public in 2009. With an area of 39.5 acres (16 hectares), the garden used to be a timber production site of the Luodong Branch of the Taiping Forest Area during the Japanese occupation. Please watch the following video of ...
China’s history is vast and very complex, and ghost stories are no exception. Explore the top seven haunted places in China as you step into 5,000 years of history and the ghastly past of China, from the wiles of eunuchs in Beijing to deserted mansions in Shanghai, and While some of the stories are groundless and ...
The Longyou Caves are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns located at Phoenix Hill, close to the village of Shiyan Beicun by the Qu River, Lingyou County, in China’s Zhejiang Province. The caves were discovered by local “farmers who were pumping water out of five small pools on a rough-flat ground in 1992.” These ...
On December 10, 1939, during the horrors of the Japanese aggression against the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), 2,988 Chinese soldiers were assigned to defend a bridge on the Yangtze River. By morning, the Chinese Nanking Battalion had simply vanished. Ready to fight The commander of the newly-arrived battalion was a ...
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