by lsh392

From the existing archaeological data, it is indisputable that Chinese primitive pottery began about seven thousand years ago. The earliest colored pottery ori......

With so many porcelain items in the antique market, how can we tell the real from the fake? Many readers hope to learn some simple methods of identifying fakes......

Wucai is one of the methods of overglaze enamel painting on porcelain. It does not necessarily include all five colors, but red, green, and yellow in the pictu......

Blue and white porcelain is a type of underglaze colored porcelain, which uses natural cobalt as the pigment. The patterns are drawn on the porcelain body with......

Our country has long been known as the "Land of Porcelain". Due to the numerous varieties of porcelain produced throughout the generations, there are various c......

Before Genghis Khan established the Mongol Khanate, the dominant religion in the Mongolian region was Shamanism. Shamanism is the ancient primitive religion of......

In Tibet, white is the most common color and people like and worship the color. In the long winter in Tibet, the world is changed into a vast sea of snow. Even......

Potato itself does not exist in China, and its homeland is also in America. It was first brought back to Europe by the Spaniards from Colombia, probably in the......

On land, people depended on vehicles and horses for transportation, while on water they relied on ships and boats. Having experienced vicissitudes, China's anc......

The ancient Chinese神州earth where the Chinese nation has reproduced and thrived since generations, has a terrain that is higher in the west and lower in the eas......

The development of silk weaving techniques is concentrated in the evolution of silk fabric patterns, from plain weave to twill weave, from plain fabrics to sma......

The usually accepted theory that "the silk originated from a practical purpose" has been challenged by a scholar from Zhejiang. It was learned from the China S......

The Yandi culture boasts a long history. The Yandi culture is the culture of the Chinese nation. It mainly includes six aspects: farming culture, traditional C......

Starting from the urban area of Lanzhou, crossing the Yellow River which lies from east to west and driving 60 kilometers along the road, you will arrive at Ji......

The Yugur ethnic group is one of the three unique minority groups in Gansu Province, mainly concentrated in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, with a total populat......

Every year during the Lantern Festival, an important event for people in Longdong is to bring along their family members, both young and old, and flood into th......

Longdong Shadow Play is also called Lamp Shadow or Leather Puppet. It is a stage prop and also a kind of folk art handicrafts. In the old days, Longdong shadow......

The Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The custom in Wuwei is to cook porridge with five-colored beans at dawn, and the whole family e......

Marriage is an important part of the continuation of a family, and the ancients paid great attention to it, with complicated rituals, including six rites: Naca......

"On March 28, people in Hongshan worship the Bodhisattva. If you have more money, eat sugar cane; if you have less money, eat fried dough twists." This is a fo......

On the day before Start of Spring, officials welcome spring in the eastern suburbs, where people of all ages gather to watch and cheer, enjoying the competitio......

If you are a guest in the Tujia mountain folk's house, you will find that having dinner is very particular. The host only ladle out a little rice for guests ev......

The fireworks of Huangyao were usually set off on the evening of February 19th of the lunar calendar. Later, they were also set off on the Lantern Festival.

The Wanghai Grand Assembly, informally known as Guang Dock, is held every year on May 5th of the lunar calendar at the Place of Immortal Quest in Qinhuangdao. ......

Mo mo is an ordinary folk food, but Jingxing mo mo has many other uses besides filling the stomach and relieving hunger. Since ancient times, Jingxing has many......

Most of the content of folk paper-cutting in Henan is related to the daily life of ordinary people. "Mandarin ducks playing with lotus" (used during marriage) ......

There are many kinds of folk flower fairs in Zhengding, such as Luozi, cloth dragon, stilt walking, bamboo horse, high照, car, dry ship, running donkey, two gho......

Kaifeng Cockfighting Speaking of cockfighting, it is indeed one of the wonders of China. The history of cockfighting is much longer than that of other combativ......

The seasonal customs in Tianjin are roughly the same as the Han traditional ones, but there are quite a lot of customs with characteristics of urban commercial......

The Qing Dynasty poet Zhang Chuanshan (Wen Tao) praised Tianjin as "a new marshland of fish and salt for ten miles. A small Yangzhou with two parts of mist and......