Study Chinese – Tianyi Pavilion
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Subscribe to free Email Newsletter Library>Travel in China>Protected Sites>Class Ⅱ>Contructions Tianyi Pavilion The Tianyi Pavilion is located in the west of Yuehu Lake in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. First built by Fan Qin, a high-ranking official equivalent to today’s national defense minister, during Emperor Jia Jing’s reign in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Tianyi Pavilion [...]
HSK – The Christian Occupation of China Movement
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Subscribe to free Email Newsletter Library>China ABC>Religion>Christianism in China The Christian Occupation of China Movement At the beginning of the 20thcentury, in order to help China catch the stream of Christian development in the world, John Raleigh Mott, a famous missionary, went to China in 1913 and sponsored the first National Christianity Conference and set [...]
Learning Mandarin – Taoist Rites
Friday, January 9th, 2009Subscribe to free Email Newsletter Library>China ABC>Religion>Taoist Culture Taoist Rites The rite of taking part in Taoism refers to a range of observances that the disciple who just takes part in Taoism must go through. The common rites of Taoism are as follows: if a disciple enters into Taoism from childhood, a boy is formally [...]
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