Fun With Chinese Characters: VIII
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How the Monkey King Came to Be
Romanian test translation: The legend begins in the Eastern Continent, in a land known...
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Hu or Court Tablet
What are those stick-like objects that court officials sometimes hold in Shen...
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An Introduction to Traditional Chinese Culture
In traditional Chinese culture, the connection to the divine was understood in every...
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Misconception 1: “But when I was in China I saw…”
In today’s China, the Communist Party may sponsor performances or exhibits that...
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Misconception 2: Shen Yun Dances about Falun Gong are “Political”
Shen Yun uses performing arts to present stories that bring to life the inner essence...
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Misconception 3: Not Seeing Beyond the Superficial
As an example of needing to see past the superficial aspects of Chinese culture, when...
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Misconception 4: Ancient China was Backwards and Oppressive
Even though ancient Chinese society never formed a constitution, Confucian ideology...
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Misconception 5: Traditional Culture Made China’s Science Lag
Looking from the 21st century back at ancient China, it may seem that society was...
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The Cultural Revolution
Over the past several decades, China has experienced a wide array of...
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Party Culture and the Arts
The Chinese Communist Party, with its Marxist-atheist ideology, sees traditional...
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The Great General Yue Fei
Yue Fei is one of China’s most celebrated generals. Born at the end of the...
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The Great General Han Xin
Han Xin was one of China’s most outstanding military strategists, famous for...
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The Terracotta Warriors
Emperor Qin Shihuang, founder of China’s first united dynasty, built himself a...
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Monk Ji Gong
One of China's most eccentric and colorful monks, Ji Gong, also known as "Crazy Ji,"...
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The Udumbara Flower
According to Buddhist scriptures, the udumbara is a sacred flower that comes from the...
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Journey to the West
One of the four classics of Chinese literature, Journey to the West was written in the...
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Outlaws of the Marsh
One of China’s four literary classics, Outlaws of the Marsh (a.k.a Water Margin...
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Wu Song Beats the Tiger
Wu Song is a hero from the classic Chinese novel Outlaws of the Marsh who killed a...
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The Good-Bad Monk Lu Zhishen
The main characters in the classic Chinese novel Outlaws of the Marsh are 108...
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Houyi and Chang'e - the Goddess of the Moon
Legends are like the shifting sands of a desert—forever changing, hard to grasp....
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Splitting the Mountain
This Chinese legend begins with forbidden love between a goddess and a mortal, and ends...
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A Vanished Dream
This legend from the early Tang dynasty tells of a young scholar named Lu Sheng who...
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