Beijing Courtyard Museum, or Beijing Siheyuan Museum, the name card of Cultural Beijing

  For those oversea travelers who are going to visit Beijing, what they are expecting on their trip to Beijing, I think, is not mainly to see the skyscrapers, and fancy buildings here in Beijing. What intrigues them is to touch a cultural and traditional Beijing.   Old Courtyards (siheyuan) and Beijing Hutong are the living history and folklore…

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Chinese New Year VS Western Christmas

  Every country and every nation has its own traditional festivals. The Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is the biggst red-letter holiday in China while Christmas is the most important holiday day in the western world. Those festivals offer people an opportunity to be torn away from their routine work and daily worries to unwind themselves and to foster kinship and friendship. The Spring Festival (Chinese new…

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