The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China. According to [...]
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Lantern Festivals – History of this popular Chinese Tradition..
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chinese History, chinese-lanterns, lanterns, traditions on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Appearance of Jade
Posted in Chinese History, tagged ancient-china, Chinese History on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From what we know, Jade first appeared on the scene in ancient China around 3500BC. This unique and beautiful material has played a central role in Chinese culture since Neolithic times when it was worked into ritual objects such as perforated disks or ‘bi’ that symbolized Heaven and rectangular tubes, or ‘cong’, that symbolized the [...]
A long long long time ago
Posted in Chinese History, tagged ancient-china, Chinese History on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The roots of ancient China and Chinese culture go back a long, long, long way. It was once thought that China’s past was mostly a collection of obscure disparate dynasties. Discoveries in the relatively recent past have shed a whole new light on this ancient land and revealed to the world a civilisation whose empires were [...]
