China Culture Facts
China is a country that will leave you spellbound with its alluring contrasts and striking features in all that it beholds! Its captivating beauty lies in its 'unity in diversity', traditional culture, cosmopolitan culture and rich heritage. This page contains information on China culture facts, such as symbols of China, arts, literature, folk-custom, calligraphy, science, technology, philosophy, medicine...
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Chinese Acrobatics
The Chinese acrobatics has a long history and rich national flavor. It is one of the art forms most popular among the Chinese people. It has a distinct style evolving from everyday life and work. Despite the advent of dazzling film shows and song-and-dance performa...
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Chinese Phoenix Symbol
Phoenix is a sacred bird in China. In Chinese, the male bird is called feng and the female bird is called huang, and the bird couple is usually called together Fenghuang. As the china dragon, this mystical bird was invented according to the parts of different anima...
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Chinese Calligraphy
Calligraphy, as a common noun, refers to beautiful handwriting with which to express one's ideas. There are few countries like China which regard calligraphy as a form of art, and that is why calligraphy is generally used to refer to Chinese calligraphy.Chinese...
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Chinese Paper Cutting
The attraction of the traditional Chinese folk art of papercutting may lie in its apparent simplicity: a typical papercut requires no paints or brushes, only an ordinary pair of scissors or a knife, and a single sheet of paper. As the use of paper became well estab...
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Traditional Chinese Paintings
The roots of traditional Chinese painting can be traced back to paintings on Neolithic pottery, such as figures of fish, frogs, deer, birds, flowers, tree leaves and dances, 6000-7000 years old. The earliest Chinese characters were pictographs. Since similar tools...
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Chinese Zodia Signs
The 12 Animals Representing YearsThe mouse, or rat, is the first in the cycle of 12 animals representing years. The others are, chronologically, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey,the rooster, the dog and the pig...
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The Chinese Dragon
The Myth of Dragon An ancient Chinese lexicon describes a dragon as "a long scaled creature which can render itself visible or invisible, small or large, short or long. It rises up to heaven at the spring equinox, and submerges into the deep waters at the autumn...