Tibetan New Year (藏历年) On the first day of the Tibetan calendar is the Tibetan New Year, the most important Tibetan festival. Preparations begin in the twelfth...
Year of Rat (鼠) Usually generous, intelligent and hard-working, but can be petty and idle; has lots of friends, but few close ones; may be successful,...
Gansu Cuisine The best Gansu dishes come from the city of Lanzhou, where flour-made dishes demonstrate how the ethnic Huis cook. Gansu dishes use lamb...
Winter Solstice Festival (冬节) Dong Jie, or the Winter Solstice, is celebrated around the 22nd or 23rd of December, as in the West. It is the shortest day and the longest...
