Traditional Chinese marriage ran through six formal stages, a matchmaker and a birth-date compatibility check. What the Liu Li actually required, step by step.
Who sits where at a Chinese banquet is decided before anyone arrives. A practical guide to seat hierarchy, toast order, glass height and refusing a drink safely.
Xiaonian, China's Little New Year, falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Inside the Kitchen God ritual, the sweet sticky candy, and the great clean.
One year old at birth or zero? At sixty? How China developed its own science of birthday celebrations.
Why do Chinese families dye eggs red when a baby turns one month old? Inside manyue, the full-month celebration: confinement, naming, first haircuts and feasts.
Put a brush, an abacus and a toy before a one-year-old and watch what they grab. Zhuazhou, China's 1,500-year-old first-birthday divination, explained.