Selected Classic Chinese Poems
A Tang poem wasn’t known to the public until very recently. When a porcelain pot of the Tang Dynasty was…
Complete Enlightenment
The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment records a Buddhist seminar and is viewed, particularly by Chinese school Buddhism, as the jewel…
China’s Travel Agents for the Deceased
The Two Wrolds Chinese character 鬼 (ghost) is traditionally used to describe two types of sentient beings: one is the…
Water Margin Illustration by Ming Artist
Water Margin (水浒传), also known as Outlaws of the Marsh and All Men Are Brothers in English translation, is one…
Traditional Chinese Wedding
A traditional Chinese wedding process all started with the man’s family sending a matchmaker to the girl’s household for a…
A Tiger’s Decree
Yuan Shuipai (袁水拍, 1919 – 1983) was one of China’s great contemporary poets with his best works being 400 satirical…
A Brief Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Temples
A classic Chinese Buddhist temple is typically a building complex consisting of several courtyards as shown in the illustration below.…
The Death Of A Chinese Diplomat
Mr Tan Jinyong (谭锦镛) was a proud Chinese man because he was a kung-fu master and he was a diplomat.…
Wild Goose Qigong
The fundamental difference between Chinese kung fu/exercise and the rest of the world is the association with qi (info energy…
Liu Changchun, China’s First Olympian
This is not China’s 110 meter hurdler Liu Xiang (刘翔), an Olympic gold medalist and World Champion, but Liu Changchun…
Qixi, A Forbidden Love between Two Stars
The love story between the stars of Altair and Vega located on the two sides of the Milky Way is…
Dream of Great Ash Tree Kingdom
One day military officer Chunyu visited a Buddhist temple where he had a chance to meet with three pretty women.…
2,200-Year-Old Documents Hidden in a Well
In the spring of 2002, Chinese local authorities in a remote park in Hunan province decided to build a 3…
An Ancient Chinese Tale of Relativity in Time
A woodcutter watched two men playing chess Weiqi in a mountain. But once the game was over and he arrived…
24 Chinese Solar Terms in Season
Traditionally, the pace of Chinese people’s life was rhythmed by the 24 Solar Terms, which divide each lunar month into…
Traditional Chinese Roofs
Traditional Chinese architecture is not only as old as Chinese civilization with 5,000 years of history but unique in the…
Liangzhu Culture 5,000 Years Ago
The radiocarbon dating of the relics determined the Culture existed in the period between 3300 B.C. and 2300 B.C, which…
A Trip to A World Beyond
The mythical tale about encountering immortals in Mt. Tiantai indicates that the Chinese entertained the concept of relativity in time…