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Chinese Way - Mar 4, 2024
The Tradition of the Five Sacred Mountains
Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), a great travel writer of the Ming dynasty, once remarked of the spectacular Five Sacred Mountains that ‘trips to China’s five great mountains render trips to other mountains unnecessary’ (wuyue guilai bu kan shan 五岳归来不看山). So what is the origin of the Five Sacred Mountains? In the ancient world, our ancestors … Continued
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Chinese Way - Feb 14, 2024
The evolution of the Spring Festival and modern ways to celebrate the Chinese New Year
As we welcome the year of the Dragon, learn about what makes this festival special and unique and how tradition has evolved.
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Chinese Way - Feb 10, 2024
Why is Dragon the Most Revered Chinese Zodiac sign?
2024 is the Year of Dragon in China. The sign itself is the utmost symbol of auspiciousness and mightiness. 
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Chinese Way - Feb 4, 2024
February, the month of the Tiger
This 4th February corresponds to the beginning of both the month of the Tiger and the Chinese solar term Lichun 立春.
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Chinese Way - Jan 10, 2024
January Month of Ox
The Chinese traditional solar term Xiaohan 小寒 started on 5th January for most of the world but is celebrated this year in China on the 6th.
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Chinese Way - Dec 21, 2023
Winter Solstice, an important Chinese solar term
Winter Solstice, or 冬至 (dung ji in Cantonese and dongzhi in Mandarin), is the twenty-second of the twenty-four solar terms in the traditional Chinese calendar, a day falling between 21st and 23rd December. 冬 (dung/dong) means ‘winter’, while 至 (ji/zhi) in this context connotes ‘extreme’.
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Chinese Way - Nov 16, 2023
The Fifth Great Invention of China: The 24 Chinese Solar Terms
The well-known ‘four great inventions of China’ are papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the navigational compass. They are celebrated as emblems of scientific and technological advancement in ancient China.
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Chinese Way - Oct 27, 2023
Chinese Solar Terms and the Zodiac
In recent decades, the Western signs of the Zodiac have become popular because of an increasingly widespread interest in astrology, the ancient belief in a connection between the movements and positions of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the stars, and human events.