This overview of Chinese customs covers daily life habits—including diet, daily routines, family life, and guest-receiving and gift-giving practices; life-cycle rituals such as coming-of-age ceremonies, weddings, funerals, and birthday banquets; etiquette and social norms like table manners, workplace etiquette, and ways of visiting, greeting, and addressing others; core values and social concepts including the sense of “face,” interpersonal reciprocity, and ideals of guanxi (relationships), harmony, and moderation; as well as regional customs that highlight north-south differences, local characteristic traditions, and comparisons between coastal and inland practices.
Xiaolongbao might be the most closely studied dumpling on earth. Not because food critics have endlessly debated it — though they have. But because one American chef actually pulled out a set of precision calipers, a digital scale, and a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, and turned Shanghai’s most beloved street snack into a spreadsheet. The…
Hanfu is quietly becoming one of the most unexpected items on every traveler’s China bucket list. Plenty of visitors have climbed the Great Wall and toured the Forbidden City. They’ve eaten their weight in hotpot. And yet, many still felt like something was missing. Then they stepped into a fitting room, slipped on an ancient-style…
China’s Baijiu culture can not be summed up in the words of “high level liquor”. It is like an invisible canal, connecting farmland, stoves, people, and business on the same ship.China’s Baijiu culture can not be summed up in the words of “high level liquor”. It is like an invisible canal, connecting farmland, stoves, people,…
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, car horns sounded at the village entrance – it was the horn of “Son in Law Festival”. My wife was “borrowed” by her family for a whole day. This scene is played out every year, but few people ask: Why is it “back”? Whose…
Chinese cuisine is not as simple as “eating”. It is a composite art that blends geography, history, dialects, and even climate into one pot. In other words, what you bite off is not a piece of meat, but a time and space that can speak. This article is meant to take you eavesdropping on what…
The daily habits of Chinese people are never simply repetitive behaviors. These habits are deeply rooted in the cultural soil and constantly reshaped in the tide of the times. From a cup of hot tea in the morning to studying at the desk late at night, from courtesy at the dining table to careful budgeting…
Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong are not just about “eating snacks”. From Michelin star-rated Cantonese cuisine to late-night Hot Pot, Hong Kong’s Chinese restaurants offer eight major cuisines in a city, so that foreign tourists who come to Hong Kong for the first time can also eat Chinese food at one time. This guide selects…
Chinese wok is not only the soul pot of Chinese families, but also the first entrance for overseas retainers to reproduce the authentic Chinese flavour. The “wok” design with a round bottom, thin-wall and heat conduction lets it release a unique “wok gas” in the stir fry room, and also attracts more and more foreigners…
Chinese cultural customs are not museum exhibits. It is hidden in the fireworks of ordinary days. In the early morning, Lane Lane Lane, an early stand steamer with white fog. The white fog may be filled with the gentleness of southern people. They like to eat rice dumplings in the morning. During the Spring Festival,…
