CHINESE CULTURE
In this section, the reader will find articles related to Chinese culture in English.
Many of them are of our own production, elaborated throughout the more than 15 years that this page has been in operation, others are extracts from books or articles that we have dared to publish (generally after translating them) because of the interest they have for the English-speaking readers.
We are in the process of converting all the articles to a more modern format, but given the hundreds of articles in the different sections, it may take a few months.
The main sections are:
GENERAL ASPECTS OF CHINESE CULTURE
HOROSCOPE AND ANIMAL SIMBOLISM
MOVIES
Last posts about Chinese culture
All you need to know about the ox in the Chinese horoscope
All you need to know about the ox in the Chinese horoscope The ox is a very beloved animal among the Chinese, despite its size, it is tame and peaceful, often in the villages, it is the youngest children who take it to the field to play, it rarely acquires the fierce...
The snake in the Chinese horoscope
The snake in the Chinese horoscope The snake is an ambiguous animal in the collective image of the Chinese people. On the one hand, it is considered similar to the dragon. Many Chinese authors recognize that the dragon, nonexistent, is nothing more than the...
The Rabbit in the Chinese horoscope
The Rabbit in the Chinese horoscope The rabbit is a tender and adorable animal, which highlights its extraordinary fertility, perhaps that is why in the Chinese horoscope is the animal most closely related to the moon, the female star par excellence. This...
The goat in the Chinese horoscope
The Goat in the Chinese horoscope The goat and the sheep are confused in the symbolism of Chinese culture, as both are written with the Yang character 羊, specifying that the sheep gives wool (绵羊) and the goat lives in the mountain (山羊), in general, both have an...
The Pig in the Chinese horoscope
The Pig in the Chinese horoscope The pig in Chinese culture is an ambiguous character. It is seen as fat and ugly, feeding on the dirtiest things, but at the same time, its meat is the most appetizing for the Chinese. His meat is "meat" in general, as an archetype of...
The Dragon in the Chinese Horoscope
The Dragon in the Chinese Horoscope The dragon is the only animal in the Chinese horoscope that has only an imaginary existence, and in fact, in the horoscope of other indigenous peoples of China, it is replaced by another animal. Although the dragon is an imaginary...
The Rooster in the Chinese horoscope
The Rooster in the Chinese horoscope In Chinese culture, as in many others, the rooster is closely associated with the sun. In some myths it is only in charge of calling the sun to rise every morning, a task in which other animals have failed, in others the rooster is...
The Monkey in the Chinese Horoscope
The Monkey in the Chinese Horoscope In the Chinese culture the monkey has a role similar to the one that Darwin gives him in the evolutionary scale. As man's younger brother, he participates in many of his qualities, in addition, in many occasions he enjoys the...
Dog in Chinese horoscope
Dog in the Chinese horoscope The dog is one of the most important animals in Chinese culture and is the first of the domestic animals that accompanied the ancestors of the Chinese in their activities on earth. From very early on it played a decisive role in the...
Chinese characters

The character chai 拆- dismantle
The character chai 拆- dismantle One of the most frequent characters in the urban scenery of the China of the development and the transformation is chai 拆- dismantle. Any walk through the old neighborhoods of most Chinese cities continually led to being confronted...
Ethnic groups

The Local Lords cult of the Bai nationality
The worship of the Local Lords (benzhu) is the most characteristic of the Bai people. Their religious life revolves around the Benzhu temple of each village, as each village venerates a local lord, sometimes a historical figure who sacrificed for the people. In other...
tRAVELS

Kunming Scenes 2025-feb
The World of Noodles If the variety of wheat or rice noodles found in China is already enough to fill an entire book, an appendix should be dedicated to noodles made from other ingredients. It seems that any vegetable that can be turned into flour only needs a bit of...
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