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editor — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 02:34:00 +0000

The Dragon Boat Festival heralding the arrival of summer is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, around the end of May, and again is not a public holiday. It is dedicated to the dragon, symbolising the bringer of rain to whom the farmers turn for help at times of drought; the dragon is also supposed to drive out the evil spirits from the river in which the revered statesman and poet Qu Yuan was drowned long ago by those who plotted against him, since when Qu has been venerated by the Chinese people as a figure

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China map for travel

editor — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 02:41:00 +0000

The Chinese civilisation, which developed along the muddy, fertile banks and in the wet lowlands of the Changjiang, was chiefly an agricultural culture. Recent excavations have revealed that even 3000 to 4000 years ago millet and rice were cultivated and advanced methods of land use and irrigation were already in use. But it would be wrong to say that China was only an agrarian society, as it was producing hand-made consumer goods long before other cultures and also quarrying raw materials. Silk, porcelain, tea plantations, salt and coal mines are just a few examples of how China was able to

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China travel guide map

editor — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:45:00 +0000

Heng and Ha are the two gods who guard the entrance to Buddhist heaven, According to legend these characters, who actually lived 1000 years before Christ, were granted special powers by Taoist magicians. With a deafening noise Heng would send deadly beams of white light from his nostrils, while Ha breathed an equally noxious yellow gas from his lungs. They fought each other in a duel but were killed by strange forces which knew their weaknesses. China travel guide map Both characters were later canonised and chosen to guard Buddhist temples. They will be seen staring angrily at each other

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