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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

The biography of Five-Willow Gentleman is a life manifestation of Tao Yuanming. The character for the willow tree is a homophone of the cha…[详细]

The character for the willow tree is a homophone of the character liu, which means asking a person to stay when bidding farewell. Thus willows sym…[详细]

Fishing provided a means for ancient Chinese scholars to pursue harmony between humanity and nature. It also provided a theme for them to communic…[详细]