君子防患于未然 A gentleman tries to take preventive measures before trouble happens. This saying is used in the same context as the English pr…[详细]

The stone tablet in Changqing, Shandong Province, marks the point where construction of the Great Wall of Qi began. The Great Wall of Qi runs t…[详细]

The Great Wall of Qi was built to take advantage of natural geographic barriers and played military functions. The Great Wall of Qi is the olde…[详细]

安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜 How I wish there were tens of millions of spacious mansions, to protect all the poor scholars of the world. …[详细]

Tulou, or earth buildings, are a unique type of residential building built on the mountains of west Fujian Province. [详细]

A well-preserved ancestral hall named “shoushan” in Meizhou City The Hakka people represents a unique branch of the Han people. In …[详细]

八字还没一撇 Not even the first stroke of the character is in sight. This proverb is used in a similar context to “Don’t count you…[详细]

The shapes of Chinese character carry cultural information. In addition to their regular function of recording linguistic symbols, Chinese char…[详细]

Cultural context will dictate how to eat properly and with respect. Cultural context is crucial to understanding languages, and it also greatly…[详细]