The Tale of Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh is a landmark in Chinese literature. It vividly portrays ancient China and its people, more precisely the mid Song dynasty. This novel is also one of the famous Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literatures. This novel tells the story of a group of people [...]
The Legend of Red Lantern is one of the Eight Model plays that were encouraged during the period of Cultural Revolution. From 1966 till 1976 these plays were played in Chinese opera to foster the ideals of communism and to facilitate the avowed goal of social reforms. The story of Red Lantern focuses on Grandma [...]
Ancient China has many, many stories and legends to speak about its history and culture. The colorful history is all the more beautiful because it portrays Chinese girls as heroines of many different tales and legends. In these stories you will have a glimpse into the ever colorful periods of ancient China. The most well [...]
The Cultural Revolution or The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was started in 1966 and was officially ended in 1969. Although many believe that this revolution finally ended with the arrest of Gang of Four in 1976. The years between these figures were marked with great political and social reforms. The beginning of the Cultural Revolution [...]
All the ancient civilizations of the world are full of myths and legend and China is no exception. The Chinese legends are replete with the tales of super human characters and their deeds – both men and women. Among the ancient Chinese beauties, probably the most beloved are the four beautiful women who exercised great [...]
The modern science is indebted to the ancient Chinese scientists in number of ways. Just think about any discipline as diverse as physics and social science, you will be able to find at least some Chinese influence. Take the example of astronomy. It is a well known fact that the first planetarium was invented by [...]
The world is indebted to ancient china for a number of contributions in the sector of art, literature, science and technology. Let us discuss about the major contributions of ancient china to the world. PAPER For the nation that uses some 80,000 different symbols in their language, it was just natural to invent the paper. [...]
The Art of War is the name of an ancient Chinese book on military strategy. It was written by Sun Tzu, the earliest international theorist, who was a general by profession and a contemporary of Confucius. He was believed to live in the state of Wu in the 6th century BC. The book originally contained [...]
The people of china love their Chairman Mao and ask them to describe their much loved leader; you will be amazed by the range of the adjectives attached with his name. Not only a statesman, Chairman Mao was a great poet, a political theorist, a great swimmer and above all an earnest soldier dedicated to [...]
Ancient Chinese poems were simple as compared to the ornate poetries written by such Western poets as Shakespeare or Milton. For the ancient Chinese poets, poems were the simple tool for communicating with common people and connect to their suffering. As such myriad love poems as well as sad poems along with the friendship poems [...]