Lixia, or the Start of Summer, is the
With the heat of summer, plants will begin to grow much
In ancient China, people celebrated the day of Lixia in different ways. For example, people in some places cooked “Five-Colored Rice” which stood for people’s good wishes for a
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The four Seasons
Many places have
We see a lot of young
Each season is
Look at your calendar. There are many solar terms, also called jieqi, on a Chinese lunar calendar.
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As
About 2, 000 years ago, Chinese people
For example, they named the day with the year’s longest daytime as xiazhi. The shortest one is called dongzhi. It is usually snowy around xiaoxue every year. And dahan is the coldest day of the year. In North China (华北), it often snows
The solar terms also help farmers make
Today, the solar terns are still helpful to our life. Did your mom tell you “don’t show your feet after hanlu”? You’d better listen to
In winter, the whole world is f
What can we do with recycled materials? For Yan Hong, 33, from Chengdu, they can become
Yan Hong used to be a nurse. But after
Most of her early works were imitations of items from TV series and pictures.
“Making craftwork is
In China, there are many different kinds of food. Some of
Everyone in China
Spring Festival is very important in China. When it comes, we make dumplings. Usually we put a coin(硬币) in a dumpling. If one eats the dumpling with the coin in it, she or he will be
When Wang Haiyan was young, her favorite toys weren’t Barbie dolls. Instead, she started learning to make shadow puppets(皮影)
As an art form of theater, shadow puppetry
Puppet-makers must follow 24 steps to make the puppets, including washing the leather, carving (雕刻) and painting, according to Wang. Among them, carving is
“We have
Learning this technique is not easy.She often used a brick(砖块) to make her left hand strong while practicing.It takes about 3, 000 carves
Wang found a way to do so. In 2016, she made shadow puppets based on the cartoon series Hhyao Xiaohongniang(《狐妖小红娘》) and gave a live streaming performance