The Tongshu tells you which days suit weddings, moving house or cutting hair. How to read its columns, where the system comes from, and why it still sells.
Tudi Gong is the smallest deity in the Chinese pantheon and the most consulted. A local official with a jurisdiction of one village, and shrines you can step over.
Not a 'ghost festival' but a family reunion — the Confucian roots of China's mid-autumn ancestor rites.
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.