Mid Autumn Festival Wednesday was the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar calendar and thus Mid-Autumn Festival, an important Chinese cultural festival. The week before felt like midsummer, but Mother Nature adjusted herself to provide the correct environmental ambience. It was a beautiful brilliant blue sky day at a perfect temperature. It’s said to be […]
Bits and Pieces Shopping About ten days ago I took the bus into the main city area to hunt for a cable. After several bus rides and shops/shopping centers I was still without my cable. However, I did get to view Chinese commerce from an angle I hadn’t explored before. One place looked like a […]
Last Weekend Soon after my return to China my TV stopped working. We had never actually turned it on but the channel indicator on a connected machine disappeared and couldn’t be made to return. No visible results occurred after weeks of discussions with management. On Friday evening I returned from class to find a note […]
Dragon Boat Festival This year Wednesday 16th June was celebrated in China as Dragon Boat Festival Day. It is an ancient festival held in accordance with the lunar calendar. It celebrates the life and death of a statesman and poet, Qu Yuan. Over 2,000 years ago he was so dispirited by his Emperor’s foreign policy […]
A Cup or … I receive a expat newsletter once a week. The author usually writes about interesting subjects and enhances it with a sense of humour. He had a topic about health in Friday’s edition which led to a link about his experience with ba guan or as known in western circles, cupping. http://www.chinaexpat.com/blog/ernie/2008/04/08/ba-guan-beginners.html […]