li bai, mid-autumn festival, moon, moon cakes, moon festival, music, poem, tang poetry, tradition, traditional chinese culture, zhang ji, zhang jiuling
The Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the Moon Festival) is upon us. The moon in traditional Chinese culture is seen as a symbol of family reunion. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, families reunite and celebrate by sitting outside, under the full moon, with a table filled with tea, fruit, incense, mooncakes, and candles as ...
The talented Zhang Jiuling suffered setbacks while creating lasting works of governance, civil engineering, and poetry, but he never suffered fools. One day, about 1,300 years ago, an imperial official known to be a literary master was traveling through the lush Chinese countryside when someone handed him an essay written by a little-known scholar. The ...
