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
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...
The Tiger in the Chinese horoscope
The Tiger in the Chinese horoscope The tiger is the king of animals for the Chinese, it plays a role similar to that of the lion in the West. It is therefore associated with dignity and power. As well as with a certain benevolent air in dealing with men. It is...
What are four tigers doing in a Chinese Buddhist Temple?
What are four tigers doing in a Chinese Buddhist Temple? After visiting the Yunnan Provincial Museum, with its exuberance of images of tigers and bulls I strolled around in Guandu Old City. The streets were full of people and I entered the Fading Temple to enjoy the...
Shadow – A Film by Zhang Yimou
Shadow - A Film by Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou leads one of the most consistent and brilliant careers in the cinematography of China, and with The Shadow (Ying) he delights the viewer again with a beautiful and surprising story, based on a very original script, and that...
The horse in the Chinese horoscope
The horse in the Chinese horoscope The horse is one of the animals of later incorporation into Chinese culture. If, as some scholars say, the system of 12 animals in the Chinese horoscope originated in the peoples who lived in the north, in the steppes and deserts...
The rat in the Chinese horoscope
The rat in the Chinese horoscope The rat for the Chinese is an animal to which are associated some positive and some negative qualities, in fact it is considered capable of carrying out numerous enterprises, not in vain it was the first animal to be assigned a sign of...
Chinese characters
The Peach, fruit of immortality
The Peach, fruit of immortality In my "Manual of Writing Chinese Characters" (1) I hold an opinion contrary to that of most scholars of Chinese characters, and that is that the formation of the so-called picto-phonetic characters responds not only to the composition...
Ethnic groups
Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure
Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure Most of the travelers who visited Tibet in former times noticed the importance that, for the maintenance of the living of the Tibetan nomads and travellers, had the Yak manure, known among the...
tRAVELS
Tiger Leaping Gorge: a 3,000-meter drop into the Yangtze River
Tiger Leaping Gorge: a 3,000-meter drop into the Yangtze River The Yangtze River is the longest river in China and, at 6,300 km, the third longest in the world. It is China’s vital artery, flowing from its source on the Tibetan Plateau across the country’s central...
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