One of the three companions in winter, together with bamboo and plum trees, pine trees in Chinese culture are symbols of people who maintain moral…[详细]

A painting by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) depicts that scholars make tea under pine trees by a stream. One of the three companions in winter, …[详细]

To illuminate themselves at night, ancient Chinese mostly used deng, meaning lamps or lanterns, or zhu, meaning candles. Red deng and zhu symboliz…[详细]

As history and literature evolved, lamps and candles gradually gained aesthetic attributes, evolving into typical symbols containing cultural connot…[详细]

Pottery lamps were created as technology for manufacturing pottery advanced. Some scholars believe a trumpet-shaped mouth utensil unearthed at the K…[详细]

Dogs are called gou and large ones were also called quan (犬) in the past. These two words are used interchangeably today. The word “犬&rdqu…[详细]

A scene in the film Postmen in the Mountains Dogs are called gou and large ones were also called quan (犬) in the past. These two words are…[详细]

This picture shows part of the Portrait of a Flower-wearing Maid by Zhou Fang in Tang Dynasty (618-907), where the maids are playing with dogs. …[详细]

Mu (trees or wood) in Chinese language refers to all kinds of trees. Sharing the same component “木,” scores of Chinese characters mea…[详细]