Inner painted items – The origin of this craft was established during the mid-to-late 16th century when tobacco was introduced to the Beijing court. At the time, the upper class used snuff bottles decoratively painted from the inside to […]
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One Good Act a Day 日行一善
Above artwork image name “One Good Act a Day 日行一善” Goodness, 善 not only brings beauty to the world but also helps us to save up fortune in our life. That’s why sometimes you saw some people are so “lucky” in their life. Karma is doing their job when we don’t expect. Someone asks, why […]
Chinese folk art Paper Cutting 剪纸-中国民间艺术
“Paper-cutting” “Fortune” Chinese paper-cutting is the simple magic of art. Paper-cutting Use scissors to cut the paper into various patterns, such as window decor, door decor, wall decor, ceiling decor, and lantern decor. Usually, it comes in handy during holidays and special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, etc. It’s affordable, as well as increases […]
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至 脆弱的生命 For the Fragile Lives
Set the goal, aim, focus, and go go go! Some of us make the goal, but some doesn’t. Does it matter? In the blank of our eye, we lost so much that we never realize until it’s too late. Who will know tomorrow could be the life and death come to us? And how many […]
Embroidery culture influences 刺绣
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 […]
舞狮 Lion dance
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 […]
中国新年，春节 Chinese New Year, Springs festival
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 fashions 汉服
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 […]
Four Treasures of the Scholar 文房四宝
“ 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 […]