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Embroidery is one of China’s outstanding national traditional crafts to sewing color threads (silk, velvet, thread) with embroidery needles, embroider transport needles on fabrics (silk, cloth) with design patterns, and form the drawing patterns or characters.  In ancient times, it was is one of China’s outstanding national traditional crafts. Later, because embroidery is mostly made […]

There are so many different stories about how the lion dance started. Here are some of the stories I’ve heard. Some people said that lions show up and start eating people once a year when winter is ending and spring is coming. When people get together and fight for survival, after many years they practice […]

Many people celebrate Chinese New Year, spring festival. But do you know why? Due to lack of knowledge and since in the past, lots of people die during winter because of the weather and food shortages. So when Spring arrive, the survival people will congrats each other, and later on become Springs Festival. About 4000 […]

Chinese “Han” ethnic fashion has long history, and they also influenced Japanese kimono, Koran hanbok & jeogori with the mixed cultural history. During Qin dynasty, Manchu ethnic ruled China as the royal family and used strange law for Manchu fashion to replace Han fashion. Only monks didn’t have affected by this law and you can […]

“ 文房四宝” The “four treasures of the scholar”, which includes Chinese writing brush, ink, ink slab and paper. Our ancestors of the Chinese nation created these beautiful unique artistic writing tools, and used them to create many different meaningful Chinese calligraphy and artworks with the four treasures of the scholar. They played the important role […]