
China is both an ancient country with a history as long as 5,000 years and a big family with 56 nationalities. China boasts a variety of unique and attractive Folklores thanks to the long history of these nationalities as well as the different natural and cultrual environments in which they live. The festivals of the spring, the summer, the autumn and the winter, taking the main charms of these folklores, attract the tourists both at home and abroad. And you may enter this Oriental dreamland to experience different folklores in the public places of entertainment all around the country.Chinese Performing Arts.
In ancient China most of people got married with the help of a matchmaker and the arrangements of their parents. The man's side, led by the matchmaker, would visit the girl's family to confirm each other's stance. The step is called xiangqin (to confirm attitudes). MORE
Some people think that the Yanzi crocodile is the archetype of the dragon. However, most people hold that dragon is a combination of many animals. And the abilities of those animals have been collected to it. Wang Chong, a scholar of Han dynasty, once pointed that the horn of dragon liked deer's one, the MORE