Fan Zhongyan – A Great Chinese Statesman and Poet
Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹, 989-1052), a Suzhou native, was a great statesman, philosopher, writer, educator, military strategist of the Song Dynasty.…
Traditional Chinese Scholar Culture
The academic examination system was formally established during the short-lived Sui Dynasty (581 - 618) before Tang, and inspired the…
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…
Chinese Business Tradition
For thousands of years, China had been a peasant society with commercial activities consciously suppressed, which shaped China’s business traditions.…
China’s Confucius Merchants
In the Chinese business world, there is a word that used to be very popular and now starts to regain…
Two Ancient Chinese Villages in a Deep Mountain
When they finally arrived at the village, they all knew for sure why they came. It was a place frozen…