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The Chinese Lion Dance goes back some one thousand years. The first record of the performance of an early form of the Lion Dance dates to the early Ch’in and Han Dynasties (Third Century B.C.) From the fourth day to the fifteenth of the New Year, lion dance groups would tour from village to...

The Mid-Autumn Festival(Zhongqiujie) known as the Moon Festival , the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox.This day was also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been...

In last posts we shared some nice poems by Libai, here let me introduce who is Libai. Li Bai (李白-Lǐ Bái) (701 – 762) was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. Li Bai is often regarded,...

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The Chinese lunar calendar is very important on agriculture,ceremony,Chinese festival,wedding,etc for Chinese people. It is not special to belong to China, but followed by greater other Asian countries. It is often referred to as the Chinese lunar calendar because it was first perfected by the...