Chinese Character '福Fu'

"福Fu", one of the Chinese characters that best epitomize China's time-honored culture, is a must in Spring Festival celebrations. Nowadays, "福fu," literally meaning auspiciousness, blessing or happiness, usually appears as a cultural symbol to express people's wishes for the coming new year. Yet, in the past, the character mainly meant luck and fortune, which also represented the unanimous hope of the society.
The tradition of pasting the character "福Fu" on walls, doors and doorposts has existed among the people for a long time. According to Menglianglu, a book recording the folk customs in the Song Dynasty (960-1127), people at that time had already been practicing the tradition.
The character can either be written or printed. The accompanying patterns usually include a variety of themes like the god of longevity, a birthday peach, a carp, a dragon and a phoenix as well as other themes. The character written on paper can be pasted both normally and upside down, because in Chinese the "up-sided 福fu" is homophonic with "福fu comes (fu dao le)", both being pronounced as "福fu dao le".

Chinese Yo-Yo 空[kōng] 竹[zhú]

Kongzhu, like Chinese martial arts, is a traditional folk sport which has both athletic and artistic elements to it.

Do you know how to play it? Now it's time to watch and learn.

音乐盒

《我爱中国菜》
*************************************************************************************** 《我的中文不好》

*************************************************************************************** 《卖汤圆》

*************************************************************************************** 《星期五》
*************************************************************************************** 《不怕不怕》
************************************************************************************** 《爱上夏天》 ***************************************************************************************
***************************************************************************************
***************************************************************************************

              我是女生

  

***************************************************************************************

纸的艺术

Happy Moon Festival to you and your family!

九月三十日是中秋节。祝大家中秋快乐！
In order to learn more information about Mid-Autumn Festival, please click this link and enjoy it with your family and friends: http://www.chinahighlights.com/video/chinese-moon-festival.htm

Chinese famous song: 水(shuǐ)调(diào)歌(gē)头(tóu)

    

  

Ice Skin Moon Cakes

http://www.chinahighlights.com/video/how-to-make-ice-skin-moon-cakes.htm

The video shows steps of how to make ice skin moon cakes and also share a popular Chinese says on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Recipe in detail:
1).Mix glutinous rice flour, rice flour and protein-free wheat starch, water, sugar and vegetable oil together until ingredients form paste. (You can add food essence and/or food coloring while mixing the ingredients. Here we use cocoa powder.)
 2) Set aside the paste for 5 minutes, and then steam the paste with high temperature for about 15-20 minutes.
3) Mix round the paste until it becomes smooth, then cool it. Ice-skin is served.
4). Divide filling into 15g each and roll it into a ball.
5). Divide dough into 30g each. (Need some flour to dust hands)
6). Flattened the paste ball and place the filling ball in the middle, close the flattened paste ball.
7) Use some flour for dusting your moon cake mold. Put it into the mold and press it out.
8). Serve moon cakes chilled.
For more information about Mid-Autumn Festival, check it out:http://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival.htm

Dragon Boat Festival: 端午节 duān wǔ jié / 划龙舟huà lóng zhōu