The Chinese Culture Company
A staple of a northern Chinese breakfast, the ubiquitous steamed stuffed bun is a delicious combination of savoury filling and fluffy dough. Here are five facts you might not know to digest as you tuck in to your baozi!
May is packed with notable dates and is a joyful time as warm weather hits the capital and we get a five-day holiday for Labour Day!
Read on to find out more about special days this month!
Continue reading “Noteworthy Dates in the Chinese Calendar – May 2023 Edition”
While Cultural Keys can be considered your go-to for a variety of traditional Chinese culture activities, there are of course plenty of other fun and interesting cultural events happening around the capital every month!
Here’s our round-up of activities connected with Chinese culture and history for May in Beijing! Continue reading “Culture Events in Beijing – May 2023”
During the Dutch tulipomania in the early 1600s, just before the flower market crash, the bulb of an unusual variety of tulip was sold for the cost of a mansion. What made it so valuable was its streaked crimson white pattern, which it was later discovered was caused by a virus.
The unhappy ending of the obsession with an abnormality, even a beautiful one, was predicted several hundred years earlier in an essay ‘Account of the Tree Peonies of Luoyang’ by a major literary figure of the Northern Song, Ouyang Xiu (欧阳修, 1007-1072). The danger Ouyang was warning against was peonies. What was wrong with the flower? Read on to find out!
By Ilina Tatiana (edited by Nic Doering)
Continue reading “The Peony: A love-hate relationship in ancient China”
While Cultural Keys can be considered your go-to for a variety of traditional Chinese culture activities, there are of course plenty of other fun and interesting cultural events happening around the capital every month!
Here’s our round-up of activities connected with Chinese culture and history for April in Beijing! Continue reading “Culture Events in Beijing – April 2023”