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Li Yunxia has been practising the ancient Chinese art of paper cutting since she was six and now teaches it to people of all ages. She explains the hardest things to master and how to avoid self ...
For members of the Chinese community, the upcoming New Year holiday, Feb. 19, is like combining Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Super Bowl for Americans, according to Leng Hui, associate director of ...
Geneva-based Caran d’Ache is introducing the Year of the Rat limited edition fountain pen, which is a worthy representation of the brand’s artisanship in Chinese lacquer work.
The popularity of paper iPads and iPhones for Chinese New Year rituals across Asia demonstrate the popularity of Apple and tech products.
The paper cut animation Chinese New Year, based on the story of “Nian” (Year Monster), presents the cultural background of the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), that is, ringing in a new ...
During Chinese New Year celebrations, houses are decorated with paper lanterns. Red is considered lucky. (Image credit: szefei/Shutterstock) Chinese traditions and customs for the new year "Guo ...
Your complete guide to writing Happy New Year in Chinese, just in time for the Chinese New Year celebrations on February 10 in 2024!
"I also conducted fieldwork to preserve important New Year customs such as flower fairs, paper-cutting, and New Year paintings.
Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations often include envelopes filled with “lucky money” and the wearing of red-coloured clothing – but some traditions are rarely observed any more.
"Chinese New Year" or "Lunar New Year"? Both? A display about Chinese New Year at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was vandalised with the word "Lunar" crossed out and replaced by ...
It’s the year of the tiger and families will gather to share in sticky rice cakes and dumplings hoping to start the lunar new year off right.
Chinese alphabets allow the flexibility of writing sentences from top to bottom or left to right. During the Lunar New Year, the Chinese have a tradition of writing two-sentence greetings on two ...