Mid-Autumn Festival
It seems that all around the world, people feel the need to celebrate a successful harvest. Americans have their Thanksgiving, Germans have their Erntedankfest, the French have their jour d’action…
24 Chinese Solar terms – White Dew
Autumn has been sneaking up on us – unexpectedly as always – and even if your mind still refuses to admit that summer is coming to an end, the Chinese…
24 Chinese Solar terms – The End of Heat
The fourteenth of the 24 Solar Terms - 处暑, or chǔshǔin Pinyin is starting. In English, it can be translated as The End of Heat. The weather in this period is a…
Discover the Hungry Ghost Festival
The (Hungry) Ghost Festival (中元节, zhōngyuán jié) is a Buddhist and Taoist festival held on the 15th night of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Tradition claims that the 7th month of the…
24 Chinese Solar terms – The Beginning of Autumn
You will never believe it, but according to the Chinese lunar calendar, autumn begins already today, August 7th. The name in Chinese for this period is 立秋, or lì qīu in…
24 Chinese Solar terms – Greater Heat
The summer days seem to fly by much faster than the winter days and it is already time for the next Solar term - Da Shu (大暑, dàshǔ in pinyin).…
24 Chinese Solar terms – Lesser Heat
Lesser or Slight Heat (小暑, xiǎo shǔ in pinyin) is the 11th term of the 24 traditional Chinese solar terms and according to the Chinese lunar calendar usually comes in the…
24 Solar terms – Summer Solstice
It is time to discover the next, the 10th Solar term of the year, and unlike most of the earlier ones described, this is one some of you might actually…
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival – called 端午节 (duān wǔ jié) in Chinese, and also known as Double Fifth Festival – is one of the major traditional holidays in China. The name Double Fifth…
Markets of Shenyang – Nanhu Hardware Market
In previous articles, you’ve learned about various specialized markets in Shenyang – for foodstuffs, for instance. Or the Moloch that is Wu’Ai Market. But today, I will introduce a more…
