OVERVIEW OF CHINESE VALENTINES DAY
Qi Xi (”The Period of Cards”), sometimes called Asian Valentine’s Day, falls on the ordinal day of the seventh lunar month of the Asian calendar and thusly its cant. It is traditional for preadolescent girls to affirm their national arts on this day (especially melon art) and to sort wishes for [...]
Regardless of the year you were born, there are certain customs and superstitions that many Chinese adhere to during the New Year. Shooting off firecrackers on Chinese New Year’s Eve is the Chinese way of sending out the old year and welcoming in the new. On the stroke of midnight, every door and window in [...]
It is especially important to the Chinese, particularly in centuries past, as they believed bad spirits were in the air all around, ready to pounce on the unprotected. Consequently everything used or worn was decorated with auspicious symbols designed to ward off these evil influences. Thus every item of clothing, every piece of furniture, every [...]
The Chinese have had surnames before the era of the Three Emperors and Five Kings, that is, when recognition was granted to one parent and not his father. Therefore, the Chinese character of the family name of two different characters together —- meaning and importance of woman to give birth. In other words, the surname [...]
Embroidery is a traditional Chinese caft to draw using colored son through the material with embroidery needles are necessary to obtain colored patterns, which has already landed on the ground. The adoption of different needling methods resulted in different embroidery styles and technical schools. Chinese embroidery had already reached a high level in early Qin [...]
