Taichung City Government said Thursday the Central Taiwan Lantern Festival will be held from Saturday until Feb. 23 at ...

The oceanic in much contemporary fiction is the place of multispecies belonging and new becomings, and decentres the human ...

Day 7: The people's birthday The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2025) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it's called renri/jan jat (the ...

The world is gearing up to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the most significant event on the Chinese calendar. Falling on Wednesday, January 29, this year marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake, ...

It’s all part of the fun as the world gears up to celebrate Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important event of the year in China and Chinese communities around the planet. Marking the first ...

Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, from pythons coiling around gold ingots to serpents with chubby faces and ...

But the snake in Chinese culture is not just a divine or benevolent figure. It also represents duality–wisdom and danger, good and evil. This dual nature is reflected in numerous Chinese legends, ...

Heaven Mending Day marks the day when the Chinese mythological goddess Nuwa is believed to have saved the mortal world by using colourful stones to mend the sky after it was damaged during a war ...