Culture

  • Shi, which means rock, stone and pebble in Chinese, symbolizes unyielding will and loyalty. Shi can also represent someone’s unadorned and a…[详细]
    04-12-2018
  • A traditional Chinese painting Bamboo, Rock and Withered Tree by Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty, a well-known painter and one of the best calligraph…[详细]
    04-12-2018
  • Both the Cold Food (Hanshi) Festival and the Qingming Festival originate from ancient custom of renewing fire in spring. As the story of selflessn…[详细]
    04-08-2018
  • Written on the third Hanshi Festival after Su Shi (1037-1101) was banished to Huangzhou, the Hanshi Observance is one of best calligraphic works i…[详细]
    04-08-2018
  • Both the Cold Food (Hanshi) Festival and the Qingming Festival originate from ancient custom of renewing fire in spring. As the story of selflessn…[详细]
    04-08-2018
  • Cao refers to all kinds of herbs, including grass and weeds. Green grasses and weeds are symbols of strong love and tenacious vitality. In certain…[详细]
    03-29-2018
  • Lush grass spreading over the old road symbolizes vitality as well as the lush sorrow when bidding farewell to a friend. Cao refers to all k…[详细]
    03-29-2018
  • More than simply ornaments, swords in Chinese culture are symbols of one’s aspiration to contribute to society and can represent the sorrow …[详细]
    03-22-2018
  • Roaming by the river, the image of Qu Yuan (c.340-c.278 BCE) carrying a sword is a typical image of a frustrated official–scholar who was de…[详细]
    03-22-2018
  • The character for the willow tree is a homophone of the character liu, which means asking a person to stay when bidding farewell. Thus it symboliz…[详细]
    03-15-2018