(中国的节日) Reading Time: 6 minutes Festivals, deeply embedded in Chinese history and traditions, are key parts of Chinese culture. They are not only markers of the seasons to be celebrated, but also powerful expressions of cultural identity, values, and social cohesion. They provide occasions for social interactions, family gatherings, and the transmission of cultural knowledge to […]
(“道” 的启示) 5 min read Daoism (道家), together with Confucianism (儒家), is one of China’s two major indigenous philosophical traditions. This article focuses on Daoism as a philosophy rather than as a religious movement. The term Daoism derives from the Daodejing (道德经), the foundational text of Daoist thought. Traditionally, this work of roughly 5,000
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(佛教艺术的宝库—敦煌) Reading Time: 6 minutes From the 4th to 14th centuries CE, the city of Dunhuang (敦煌), in northwest China, was a key intersection in the ancient Silk Road—a network of trade routes that connected China with Central and West Asia. To Dunhuang’s east, the Silk Road led to China’s ancient capital Chang’an (长安, today’s Xi’an
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(丝路上的美食) Reading Time: 5 minutes The ancient Silk Road—a network of routes that connected China to the Central Asia and finally Europe—started from Chang’an (长安), the modern-day Xi’an (西安). Through the Silk Road, merchants in camel and horse caravans from the west and south brought their musical instruments, rugs, ceramics, lacquer-wares, and spices to China and
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