Xishuangbanna is the southernmost prefecture of Yunnan Province. The prefecture is nicknamed “Aerial Garden” for its luxuriant and multi-layered primitive woods and tropical rain forests, which are teeming with animals and plants.
　　Renowned as a huge natural zoo, Xishuangbanna’s rain forest and monsoon jungles provide a habitat for nearly 1000 species of animals. Within thick and [...]

一、The cultural history of Pu’er Tea
Pu’er Tea rose up in the Eastern Han Dynasty, turned into comity in the Tang Dynasty, began to be popular in the Sing Dynasty, as finalized in the Ming Dynasty and was prospered in Qing Dynasty with a history of thousand of years. Pu’er Tea tea was originally named by [...]

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) (“black-and-white cat-foot”) is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central-western and southwestern China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, ears and on its rotund body. Though technically a carnivore, the panda has a diet which is 98% bamboo. However, [...]

I. GENERAL APPEARANCE.
Noble and impressive: a large, powerful, heavy, well built dog, well muscled, with much substance and bone, and of solemn but kindly appearance. The Tibetan Mastiff stands well up on the pasterns, with strong, tight, cat feet, giving an alert appearance. The body is slightly longer than tall. The head is broad and [...]

Introduction
Depending on its function, an Imperial era piece of Chinese furniture typically belonged to one of three different categories: bedroom furniture, study room (library) furniture, and hall furniture, where a hall itself might belong one of a number of categories such as a state (official government) hall, a temple hall, a garden hall and a [...]

Overview
Traditional Chinese Medicine (abbreviated as TCM) is more than just a collection of roots and herbs that are believed to have healing powers. According to Chinese religious philosophy, all things in nature, both on this planet and beyond, are interrelated. Traditional Chinese Medicine embraces a number of other health-related concepts, in the broadest sense, concepts [...]

When one speaks of folk dances in connection with Chinese culture, most people today think of the quaint folk dances of ethnic minorities, forgetting that the forefathers of the “tribe” that would later be referred to as the Han Chinese were perhaps the first Chinese people to make use of ritual dancing. The early Chinese [...]

China is a nation boasting diversified nationalities, languages, and characters. It has 56 ethnic groups, over 80 languages, and about 30 kinds of character. Chinese is the most widely used language in China and the world at large. It is designated as one of the six official languages by the United Nations. Chinese is the [...]

Snuff bottles are not native to China but were reportedly introduced from the West by Fr.Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit father who worked in Beijing in the early 17th century. Yet the art of interior painting in snuff bottles was born and developed in China and unique to the country.
A popular story tells how the [...]

The Christian love and the Confucius Ren are two important ideas which both have great influence and enjoy high popularity. There are both difference and similarities between each other.  The Christian love and the Confucius Ren are two important ideas which both have great influence and enjoy high popularity. There are both difference and similarities [...]

The Compass 指南针
Diagram of a Ming dynasty mariner’s compass
Main article: Compass
The earliest reference to magnetism in Chinese literature is found in a 4th century BC book called Book of the Devil Valley Master (鬼谷子): “The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.”
The earliest reference to a magnetic device used as a “direction finder” is [...]

Spoken by over one billion people Chinese is indeed the greatest language in the world. But rather than one language China has many “ languages” or “dialects” that are based on the same written language, hence differing primarily in pronunciation and speech. With seven major language groups the Chinese languages are strongly associated with individual [...]