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Chinese puppets have thousands of history. They are beautiful, vivid, showing life on the stage. This program introduces different types of Chinese puppets, puppet show performers and puppet-making techniques in the past thousand years. This is a good film to introduce Chinese folk culture.
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Again, MandMX did a great job visualizing a Chinese festival. What is spring festival about? The cartoon says FAMILY, SPRING ROLLS, LUCKY MONEY AND FIREWORKS! Right, family reunion is the festival about. People travel from everywhere of the country back home to get together with their family. Food, lots of food, delicious food will fill [...]
Found a great webpage. Everything about Spring Festival from customs in different cities, common food, to temple activities can be found on this page. The page is however only in Chinese.
Here is the address: http://zt.hudong.com/xisu/?hf=wxcct&pf=wxctf
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Although Christmas is not a Chinese festival, it has become more and more popular among young people in China. You can see beautifully decorated Christmas trees in big shopping malls and Christmas lights in many places. For Chinese people living abroad, this holiday season is indeed lovely and cheerful. Join the party！Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！(shèng [...]
This is a quiz about China, its history and culture from Timesonline. Try it and test your knowledge about China!
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I read an article letter from the Times. It was written by Dr Richard Pike, Chief Executive of Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Pike himself was one of the small group of students who started to learn Japanese when Japan started to become the “Asian giant” in 1970s. He later spent years working in Japan, [...]
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Mooncake, 月饼(yuè bǐng ), is the traditional snack for Mid Autumn Festival in China. This year, the mid autumn festival is on Oct. 03. in the previous years, we featured the mid autumn festival history and a theme song, this year, I am glad to share some great comics of mooncakes — MandMX remade [...]
Chinese characters are like drawings. Here are some examples showing how artistic they can be:
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