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The Clear and Bright Festival
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Clear and Bright (Chinese: 清明), the 5th solar term. Of all the 24 solar terms, Clear and Bright is the only one whose first day is also a traditional Chinese festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day. The words “clear” and “bright” describe the weather during this […]
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Fengshui (风水), literally ‘wind-water’, pronounced fnng-shway, is an ancient Chinese philosophy studying the auspiciousness of environments, based on Yin-Yang Theory and Five Elements Theory. It’s a form of geomancy. Fengshui philosophy states that qi (气 /chee/ ‘energy’) exists in all things and is the life of the nature. The core idea of fengshui is the […]
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