Beijing Your Way

On Nov, 16th, the Peking opera, along with acupuncture, was included on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) list.   The Peking opera is a national treasure with 200-year history.   Now the Peking opera exhibition show is ongoing until Jan 20, 2011, which is started from Dec 2.   There will be 45 selected Peking operas, [...]

Rong Bao Zhai is a special shop in Beijing making reproductions of Chinese paintings, which is situated at No. 19 Liulichang West St. in the Xuanwu District of Beijing. It plays a leading role in the field of watercolor block printing, a type of block printing employed to reproduce famous works of painting and calligraphy. [...]

When living in Beijing it is very easy to feel a kind of malaise. Millions of bars serving reasonably priced drinks, and a selection of twice as many restaurants at which a seemingly never ending conveyer belt of varied and delicious food is served up and so on. All of these make us easy to [...]

Lvda Gun, also known as bean flour cake. According to Beijing old customs, every Lunar New Year in February, with a total buy-point Lvda Gun taste. Lvda Gun, there are two, one is steamed yellow rice (or glutinous rice) stained with fried dough, roll into the soy surface film, roll on the bean pie cut [...]

The diabolo which is also called the Chinese yo-yo in China,is one of the traditional sports. Chinese yo-yos have a long thin axle, with disc-shaped wheels, and it also comes in different colors, sizes, and weights. The play of the diabolo is especially popular in Beijing and you can find some people playing it every [...]

Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually. The ancient craft has now virtually ceased, as since cites it is illegal under most circumstances all over the world. It was said that ivory objects dated back to 3,000 years [...]

Chinese tea culture is among the best of Chinese culture, and it is an important part of Chinese ancient culture. The tea ceremony is a very profound and complex thing, and it seems that only with a pure heart and few worldly desires can a man get its quintessence. However, for the common people, at [...]

Shadow play (Chinese: 皮影戏)　or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment, which is taken as an earliest ancestor of modern cinema; the unique artistic value makes it be reserved from the ancient time. Performers control characters while singing the libretto to tell the story behind the screen. The character, or we can [...]

Set in the southern section of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven is the centre of imperial ritual ceremony for Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Temple of Heaven was entered into the world cultural heritage list in 1998. It covers the total area of 273 hectares. With the additions and rebuild during the Ming, Qing and [...]

A Siheyuan is a historical type of residence that was commonly found throughout China. It is very famous in Beijing. Throughout Chinese history, it is usually used for residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family, businesses and government offices. A standard Siheyuan usually consists of houses on its four sides with a yard in the center. The [...]