Asian visual culture

  The Wednesday three weeks before, I went to Think Tank to ask some questions about my midterm historical fiction paper. After discussing with my tutor and walk off from the writing center, I found this kite next to the computer on the one of tutors' desk. It's a Chinese dragon kite, it is really beautiful and surprised me a lot, because I can find this style kite in Tucson. Well, I will show the photo of this kite below for you guys.

  Impressive concert! Can't be more happy to hear these hear these classic Chinese music in US. I always think our Chinese culture don't have good media to convey and can't be popular in other country. The concert changed my mind, and made me realize that our music is the best media to show our culture! And I heard a lot of versions of this song, it might be the best one, it's surprised that they can sing Chinese song so well! This is the song's link of google drive below and one another video I took at concert. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxhlvawzJFbbWS16R05HSmJ5UUk?usp=sharing

Well, it's hard to find moon cake in Tucson, in order to celebrate the mid-autumn festival, we went for LiLi supermarket to buy moon cake, I'm so glad to share moon cake and Chinese culture with my American friend. Something disappointed is that I didn't take the photos of we eating moon cake!

  It's was my first time to went to Chinese restaurant, feeling so good taste something from my homeland, spicy food and some sweet food, so interesting! The name of this restaurant is Old Peiking, if you have time, I strongly recommended you to have a try!   

   In Chinese m yth, there are a lot of interesting beast, like “ Jiaoren ” ,“Taotie”,some of them are horrible, but some of them are really beautiful, so I want to show some interesting information about Chinese ghost.  Chinese Dragon   Chinese dragons  are  legendary creatures  in  Chinese mythology  and  Chinese folklore . The dragons have many  animal-like forms  such as  turtles  and  fish , but are most commonly depicted as  snake -like with four legs. Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent and  auspicious  powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, typhoons, and floods. The  dragon  is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck for people who are worthy of it. With this, the  Emperor of China  usually used the dragon as a symbol of his imperial power and strength. Qi lin   The   qilin  ( Chinese :  麒麟 ;...

  Recently, I was doing some research about Yakuza in Japan, it's really interesting crime organization, and Yakuza is a little bit different from western Mafia, the main spirit of Yakuza is brother- hold and “GINGI”(仁）， and it interested me a lot, so I will show some research about Yakuza below and some opinion of me about Yakuza.    Yakuza   ( Japanese :  ヤクザ ,  [jaꜜkɯza] ) , also known as  gokudō   ( 極道 , "the ultimate path") , are members of  transnational organized crime   syndicates originating in  Japan . The  Japanese police , and media by request of the police, call them  bōryokudan   ( 暴力団 , "violent groups") , while the yakuza call themselves " ninkyō dantai "  ( 任侠団体 or 仁侠団体 , "chivalrous organizations") . The yakuza are notorious for their strict codes of conduct and organized  fiefdom -nature. They have a large presence in the  Japanese media  and operate internationally with an est...

  In China, fish is symbol of lucky and happiness, there is a idiom: 年年有鱼 in China, means we hope we can left something for the next year, and the last word of the idiom is 余 means left, it has same pronounce as 鱼（fish）in Chinese, so we like using fish as the lucky symbol. There are some interesting pictures below show how much our Chinese people like this symbol.