Tag: Chinese heritage
The Daylily’s 2,500-Year Journey: How China Turned a Poet’s Flower into a Kitchen Staple
The Chinese idiom "huánghuācài dōu liáng le," literally "even the daylily dish has gone cold," is a northern...
China’s Five Sacred Creatures and What They Actually Meant
The dragon: lord of transformation, emblem of imperial power The Shuowen Jiezi, the Han dynasty's...
Shen Yun Sold Out in Toronto as Chinese Immigrants Say the Show Restored Their Cultural Identity
Shen Yun Performing Arts played two sold-out performances at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing...
As Mao Waged War, Chiang Kai-Shek Moved to Preserve China’s Traditional Heritage
When then-leader Mao Zedong unleashed the brutality and chaos of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, along...