Chinese people are supposed to stay up the whole night on the 30th day of the 12th month in the Lunar Calendar. In Chinese mythology, a monster called nian would come out to harm people on New Year's Eve, so people get together, staying up and chatting, hoping for a peaceful passage ...
Summary: Intrigued by the sight of a Formosan clouded leopard’s skin, British diplomat Robert Swinhoe (1836-1877) started to search for the mysterious animal, which plays an important role in the mythology of the indigenous Ngudradrekai and Paiwan peoples. Inthe course of his quest, he col...
This project was geared towards helping them understand part of their Chinese heritage by introducing them to one of the oldest and most popular texts in Chinese mythology. The desired goal was to cultivate enough interest with this presentation so that they would want to seek out other ...
Cang Xin’s many works are on the whole difficult to assign to the Western-style categories of performance art or conceptual art. The Chinese idea of performance art is somewhat different to that of the West, partly because the term generally used in China is ...
Such twilight periods may enhance the vividness of quasi-historical mythology like the Iliad, the Arthurian legends, and the Mahābhārata. The earliest history of India is covered separately at "The Earliest Civilizations" and "The Spread of Indo-European and Turkish Peoples off the Steppe." The...
Article analyses for the first time one of the most recently written works of the contemporary Chinese- American composer Chen Yi – the piano concert “The Four Spirits” (2016). The purpose of the article is to determine the effect of ancient Chinese mythology on the content and structure ...
Eighteen schools, the division of the Buddhist community in India in the first three centuries following the death of the Buddha in c. 483 bc. Although texts speak of the “18 schools,” the lists differ considerably; and more than 30 names are mentioned
Chinese New Year is celebrated at the turn of the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Also called the Spring Festival in Chinese culture, it is celebrated to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Often intertwined with the Lunar New Year of at least 56 ethnic groups, the Chinese New...
The Chinese calendar, also known as the Lunar calendar or the Agricultural calendar, is one of the oldest and most intricate calendrical systems in the world. Search for Worksheets e.g figurative language Worksheets /Social Studies /Chinese Calendar Facts & Worksheets Premium Download the Chines...