This is a man with so many legend; this is an idol who is still been worshipped by Chinese people; this is the warrior Guan Yu (Pinyin: Guān Yǔ) that will never let people down!
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Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
My personal experience is that the majority of our generation, the so-called post-80s, were introduced the St. Valentine's day first. While along with the revival of traditional Chinese culture, we are more interested in our own lover's day: Qixi Festival, which also comes from a romantic but a little bittersweet love story.
According to ancient records, the dragon appeared as a composite of many animals, such as the snake, alligator and lizard -- long or short, small or huge, hidden yet active. It could also inhabit any place -- from the greatest heights to the lowest depths. Traveling between the skies and the earth, dragons were considered the heads of heavenly deities and governors of rainfall in Chinese culture. During times of drought, dragons could create precious water and in times of flood they stopped the rain and cleared the skies. As kings of the waters, dragons lived in dragon palaces under the ocean.
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