traditional culture

Birth, aging, sickness, and death are part of the natural order. From an ordinary scientific viewpoint, once life …

For Native Americans, music is a complete, expressive revelation of their inner life and a vehicle of communication …

Chinese folktales are some of the most colorful and varied stories ever written. For thousands of years, China …

The edible taro is a corm that is cut from the Colocasia esculenta plant. Its root system stores …

The lullaby is evocative of a mother’s love, care, and protection, of being cradled in her tender arms, …

The guqin is a five- or seven-stringed plucked instrument originating in Ancient China. It was considered essential to …

When we talk about Chinese traditional culture, some of the things that come to mind are the philosophical …

Lin Zexu (林則徐, 1785-1850) was an honest official in the late Qing Dynasty known for his strict crackdown …

Modernity has gifted humanity with many good things. In the process, many practices have been blindly cast out …

There are more than 33,000 stores in Japan that have endured for centuries. This is the country with …