Our weekly cultural post
Customs in China can be a bit confusing for a foreigner, especially during meals. Indeed, simply learning how to properly use chopsticks may be a real challenge for some people. But if you master chopsticks use, it is now time for you to complete your Chinese etiquette knowledge! When arriving Read more…
Shanghai, one of the four municipalities in China, is also known as “Paris of the East”, “Pearl of the East”: in fact, it is considered as one of the most fashionable metropolises of Asia. Located on the Yangtze River’s Delta on the central coast of China, Shanghai is the largest Read more…
Taoism has no founder and no founding date. It grew out of various religious and philosophical traditions in ancient China, including shamanism and nature religion. Zhang Daoling became the first Celestial Master and founder of the first organized Taoist school of thought. This tradition continues to the present day, with Read more…
The Asian Film Awards (AFA) is an internationally recognized festival that takes place in Hong Kong in March of every year. It first started out in 2007 when Wilfred Wong, the Chairman of Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, announced the launch of the Asian Film Awards to recognize the Read more…
We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year!! 🧧✨ The Spring Festival is the most important festival in Chinese culture. It celebrates the arrival of the new year on the lunar calendar. It does not have a fixed date, but it usually falls between the end of January and Read more…
A dumpling is composed of meat and/or vegetables, rolled inside a thin piece of dough. It can be boiled, steamed or fried. The most common ones are called jiaozi (饺子). Jiaozi are mostly eaten in the Shandong area (North-East of China) and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Read more…
Anybody who has been reading the news these days has certainly heard about the controversy that involved the two famous stylists Dolce and Gabbana and the Chinese citizens. But what happened exactly? It all began because of an advertising that was supposed to promote D&G’s upcoming fashion show in Shanghai. Read more…
Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, is a tea-based drink invented in Taiwan in the 1980s. It quickly became popular at first across China and other Asian countries, then this new vogue spread rapidly all over the world. The original recipe consisted of a mixture of black tea Read more…
The city of Shenzhen is situated in the north of Hong Kong and it is considered as China’s Cupertino, as it is the centre of China’s hi-tech industry. Here, for instance, there are Huawei’s headquarters, the world’s third most productive company of smartphones after Apple and Samsung. But Shenzhen is Read more…
China’s Single’s Day (单身节), also known as ‘Bare Branch Day’ (光棍节), is an annual non-official holiday celebrated on November 11. The holiday is believed to have started in 1993 at the dormitories of Nanjing University. Four single university male students gathered to discuss how to break the single-hood and chose November 11 Read more…