Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Chinese fireworks or paper fireworks, also known by the French terms feux pyriques or feux arabesques, [1] is a type of optical toy box that displays pictures with twinkling light effects. The pictures are printed or painted on paper, parchment or cardboard plates, and contain perforated elements.
Name Description Symbolism Images Butterflies: Butterfly/ butterflies A common motif used in Chinese embroidery and in Chinaware. [12] The butterfly is a symbol of joy and summer. [12] It also implies long life, beauty and elegance. [6] Pair of butterflies Pair of butterflies embroidered on clothing strengthens the energy of love. [6]
In traditional Chinese historiography, various models of mythological founding rulers exist. [21] The relevancy of these figures to the earliest Chinese people is unknown, since most accounts of them were written from the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BCE) onwards. [22]
The Lantern Festival (Chinese: 元宵节) is a time for everyone to be with their families. The three-day show, Da Shuhua performs around the Lunar New Year to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Nuanquan. The Lantern Festival is an ancient festival and usually celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Liuyang Fireworks” branded products are widely recognized in China. During the Yongzheng reign of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Liuyang fireworks became an article of tribute to the royal families which gave an added impetus to the developing trade. Fireworks workshops boomed, until more than nine out of ten households were engaged in the ...
The Chinese classic Book of Rites mentions the Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise (Dark Warrior), Azure Dragon, and White Tiger as heraldic animals on war flags; [3] they were the names of asterisms associated with the four cardinal directions: South, North, East, and West, respectively.
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
Native Chinese religions do not usually use cult images of deities, or even represent them, and large religious sculpture is nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century. One of the earliest Buddhist sculpture in China is a gilt-bronze seated Buddha with flame shoulders from the 3rd century, which displays influence from ...