According to a survey made by the late writer Sun Kaidi, Chinese shadow play dated back to the mid-or late Tang Dynasty, or the later Five Dynasties (907-960). During that period, it served as a media for the preaching of Buddhist Dharma of transmigration and retribution.

Take a visit to the rural countryside in north China at the Spring Festival, and you are certainly to be impressed by the red color on the windows and doors of every household. It is the Chinese paper cuts.

Traditional Chinese decorative knots, also known as Chinese knots, are typical local arts of China. They are a distinctive and traditional Chinese folk handicraft woven separately from one piece of thread and named according to its shape and meaning.

People may be deeply dazzled with Chinese diversities of furnitures when visiting the traditional mansions of ancient China like Prince Gong Mansion in Beijing, Chengde Summer Resort, Suzhou Humble Administrator’s Garden and Yuyuan Garden of Shanghai.

If you have a chance to take part a Bai nationality wedding in Dali, it will be an overwhelming experience. Not only to taste special food and wine, but also see colorful folk costumes and experience interesting life of this China’s ethnic group.