On November 12, a Christian Dior exhibition took place at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai that featured work by Chinese fashion photographer Chén Màn 陈漫. The Art’n’Dior exhibition theme was “Dior and Art” and “Lady Dior.” According to Business of Fashion, it featured “a series of Lady Dior handbags reinterpreted as part of ...
In the old stories, it is often recounted that gods come to people in disguise to test their true nature. There was a generous and open-minded old scholar called Liu Gong who lived in Anhui during the early Qing Dynasty. One such test occurred during a very tough time in his life. Thankfully, the old ...
“I’m just that kind of guy, that’s my character. I am just this kind of emperor…” Those are the words of the Yongzheng Emperor, describing himself during the early Qing Dynasty. These personal writings can be found among secret palace documents. The Yongzheng Emperor ruled China from 1722 to 1735. According to official history, he was ...
During the Qing Dynasty in China, Suzhou was a vast, populous town with various goods and thriving businesses run by hard-working owners and enterprising merchants. At that time, there were many people living in the Huaiqing area who ran businesses, passing them on from father to son for generations. They taught their descendants not just ...
There is a famous story about the Daoist Doctor Xue. One day, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, a gang of robbers ransacked a village. At the time, the roosters crowed, dogs barked, and all the villagers hid. There was a prominent family in town who was well-known for being beneficent. When the ...
The color yellow in Chinese culture is very significant. It is believed that all Chinese people are the descendants of the “Yellow Emperor,” the birthplace of Chinese culture was the Loess Plateau, a country of windblown “yellow earth,” the cradle of Chinese culture was located on the “Yellow River,” and the descendants of the Yan ...
The Empress Xiaoxianchun, or Lady Fuca (1712-1748), was one of the three most well-known empresses in the history of the Qing Dynasty. Despite lacking the political achievements of Empress Xiaozhuang (1633-1688) or the political power of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), Lady Fuca’s short life was almost perfect and she was recognized as the most virtuous ...
The Ancient Chinese had a very specific image of “classic beauty.” Chinese traditional beauty was often defined as having delicate skin, small eyes and ears, thin eyebrows, long fingers, a pale face, a little round mouth, and soft palms. With regard to Chinese hairstyles, Confucian values mandated that hair be kept long since it was ...
The Qing Dynasty was the last Chinese dynasty, a period where royals ruled China before the country was declared a republic. Toward the start of the 1900s, the Chinese elites began to feel that there was a need for political reform in the country to bring China and its people into the modern age. Exposure ...
This is a true story about a wicked deed that happened during the reign of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. In a place around a hundred li (30 miles) away from Tianjin called Tangguantun, a 16-year-old girl was struck by a thunderbolt and killed. There is a reason behind why the girl of such a young age ...
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