Wikipedia English:
The first Shaolin Monastery abbot was Batuo (also called Fotuo or Buddhabhadra, or also known as Bodhidharma) a dhyana master who came to China from India in 464 AD to spread Buddhist teachings.
- Mar 07 Thu 2013 07:23
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Shaolin Monastery 少林寺 Monasterio de Shaolin
Wikipedia English:
The first Shaolin Monastery abbot was Batuo (also called Fotuo or Buddhabhadra, or also known as Bodhidharma) a dhyana master who came to China from India in 464 AD to spread Buddhist teachings.
- Mar 07 Thu 2013 07:11
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Laozi 老子 Lao Tse
- Feb 10 Sun 2013 02:16
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the hot pot 火鍋 el caldero mongol
Wiki English:
The Chinese hot pot has a history of more than 1,000 years. Hot pot seems to have originated in Mongolia where the main ingredient was meat, usually beef, mutton or horse. It then spread to southern China during the Tang Dynasty and was further established during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. In time, regional variations developed with different ingredients such as seafood. By the Qing Dynasty (AD 1644 to 1912), the hot pot became popular throughout most of China. Today in many modern homes, particularly in the big cities, the traditional coal-heated steamboat or hot pot has been replaced by electric, propane or butane gas, or induction cooker versions.
- Feb 09 Sat 2013 07:55
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the chopsticks 筷子 los palillos
English Wiki:
Chopsticks (singular: chopstick) are short, frequently tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length, which are used as the traditional eating utensils of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
- Feb 02 Sat 2013 03:08
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Xiao 簫
English:
The xiao is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute. It is generally made of dark brown bamboo.
- Feb 02 Sat 2013 02:54
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I Ching (Pagua) 易經八卦
Wiki English
The bagua are eight trigrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line either "broken" or "unbroken," representing yin or yang, respectively. Due to their tripartite structure, they are often referred to as "trigrams" in English.
- Jan 29 Tue 2013 05:07
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Taijiquan 太極拳 Taichí
- Jan 22 Tue 2013 22:55
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the mooncake 月餅 el pastel de luna
Mooncake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu).
El pastel de luna es un producto de pastelería que se come tradicionalmente durante el Festival de Medio Otoño (Zhongqiu).
El pastel de luna es un producto de pastelería que se come tradicionalmente durante el Festival de Medio Otoño (Zhongqiu).
- Jan 22 Tue 2013 22:32
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Tangyuan 湯圓
Tāngyuán is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour.
Tāngyuán es una comida china elaborada por la harina de arroz glutinoso.
Tāngyuán es una comida china elaborada por la harina de arroz glutinoso.
- Jan 12 Sat 2013 06:48
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(Pipa) El Laúd Chino 琵琶 The Chinese Lute
La pipa (chino: 琵琶, pinyin: pípá) es un instrumento de cuerda pulsada tradicional chino parecido al laúd occidental. La pipa aparece citada por primera vez en textos que datan del siglo II a. C. Han derivado del mismo varios instrumentos tradicionales orientales, el más conocido de los cuales es la biwa japonesa, el vietnamita đàn tỳ bà y el coreano bipa, que ya no se utiliza, conservándose sólo algunos instrumentos en museos.
- Jan 12 Sat 2013 06:42
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Paper lanterns 燈籠 (linterna de papel)
Su presencia suele asociarse con fiestas, y son muy habituales en China y Japón, así como, lógicamente, en los diversos barrios chinos alrededor de todo el mundo, donde se suelen colgar en el exterior de los establecimientos públicos para atraer posibles clientes. En Japón reciben el nombre de 提灯 (chōchin), y existe un tipo especial de caligrafía para escribir en ellas, llamado chōchin moji.
En diversas comunidades hispanas es habitual durante la Navidad colocar pequeñas velas en filas de pequeñas bolsas de papel llamadas luminarias o farolitos. Las linternas de papel rojas estuvieron asociadas en el pasado con los burdeles, de donde deriva por ejemplo el nombre del Barrio Rojo de Ámsterdam. En la actualidad las linternas rojas se usan en Japón para anunciar bares y restaurantes. (wiki)
- Jan 12 Sat 2013 06:37
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Comida China (Chinese Donut) 油條 (palos fritos de pan)
The Cantonese name yàuhjagwái literally means "oil-fried devil" and, according to folklore, is an act of protest against Song Dynasty official Qin Kuài (in the wikipedia, the name is Qui Hui, is not correct), who is said to have orchestrated the plot to frame the general Yue Fei, an icon of patriotism in Chinese culture. It is said that the food, originally in the shape of two human-shaped pieces of dough but later evolved into two pieces joined in the middle, represents Qin Hui and his wife, both having a hand in collaborating with the enemy to bring about the great general's demise. Thus the youtiao is deep fried and eaten as if done to the traitorous couple. In keeping with the legend, youtiao are often made as two foot-long rolls of dough joined along the middle, with one roll representing the husband and the other the wife.