4/25/09

Oriental Culture


Mythical Animal is fed with fortune and attracts the fortune, joy and good luck from the universe, and lustrates the evil influence and adversity.
In the 1950s, Chairman Mao admitted Mythical Animal as the logo of People’s Bank of China.
Mythical Animal is being used as the Sign of City Nanjing.
Long long ago there is a mystery in the mind of Chinese people; this Mythical Animal has only one hobby that it used to hold the money between its teeth back to its master for funny.
it is known to all Li Ka-shing, Asias richest man, has collected 888 Mythical Animalto indicate his fortune more and more as the time goes by.

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4/23/09

Oriental culture

Tang Dynasty History
Chinese culture was unparalleled in the Middle Ages!
The Tang was established in 618 by a military family based in northwest China. This military family took advantage of a time of chaos in the wake of the Sui’s failed military campaigns in Korea to seize power.
The height of Tang power was the mid-8th century AD. However, in 755 AD a Tang military commander named An Lushan led a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. Although the rebellion was finally crushed in 763 AD, it caused huge losses for China. Lives, money and huge areas of territory in Central Asia were lost.
In time, the military commanders with more authority than the central government arose in Tang territories. These commanders, as well as a number of natural disasters including drought and famine, weakened the empire in the latter half of the 9th century AD. In 907 AD a military governor deposed, and later murdered, the last Tang emperor.
Tang Dynasty Culture
The Tang Dynasty was an era of unprecedented progress in art and technology. Poetry and literary skills became required for imperial officials. Many of China’s most famous poets lived during the Tang Dynasty.
Various technologies were developed and improved during the Tang Dynasty as well. The development of woodblock printing increased the availability of written works and allowed literacy to spread to the lower classes. Medicine, architecture, mapmaking and more all saw progress during this period.
In the Tang Dynasty, areas where ceramics were manufactured expanded and the quality of the products was improved considerably. The polychrome-glazed pottery in the Tang Dynasty which reached an unprecedented degree of sophistication represented a dramatic advance in porcelain production. The Yue Kiln celadon of the south and the Xing Kiln white porcelain of the north were the highest achievements of the two regions. Meanwhile the active experimentation in techniques during the Five Dynasties laid grounds for the rapid development of porcelain manufacturing in the Song Dynasty.

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4/22/09

Oriental Culture, Chinese Good luck talisman,Sandy Porcelain golden toad


Long long ago, there was an old farmer whose family name was Liu living in a small village lying near the Yellow Mountain. He had only one son, who was called Sea Liu.


Qiao, the daughter of the King of the dragon in the South Sea, once became a Golden toad to jump out of the White Dragon Pool for a walk when his father went out for personal affairs. When she enjoyed the beautiful and engaging sign of the water lily, a huge python was running towards her for its lunch. Seeing these, without doubt Sea Liu chopping wood in the tree tried his best to save her from the mouth of the python.


Golden toad got to know that it was Sea Liu who saved her from the danger. On her way home, she founded herself fall in love in Sea Liu, thinking of him every minutes. One day she could not wait to going out to look forward to seeing him again. Luckily Sea Liu also went across the White Dragon Pool to chop some wood. Having an indebted heart for him, Qiao felt rather pleased and thrown the golden coin through Sea Liu. At the time he picked up the golden coin, Golden toad became a beautiful and attractive girl, smiling toward Sea Liu with catching eyesight.


At last Golden toad married Sea Liu and lived a happy and wonderful life.

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