The 24 Solar Terms: Rhythms of Heaven, Earth, and All Beings
The four seasons tell us where we are in the story of our year, but did you know that within each one, there are six miniseasons that last 15 days each?
Category: Arts & Culture
Mid-Autumn Festival: The Moon and How That Rabbit Got There
Every night in my college years, I gazed up at the moon and felt a comforting sense of connection, knowing that even though my loved ones were miles and oceans apart, the same moon lighted the way home for them.
Mid-Autumn Festival: A Time of Family Reunions and Divine Blessings
A brilliant full moon adorns the boundless sky as households gather with their families. They laugh and talk, savor mooncakes with tea, and every so often, gaze up to marvel at the beauty of the moon while relishing the joy of their rare reunions.
The Chrysanthemum: Symbol of Strength and Resilience
As the chill of autumn sets in, trees begin to lose their vibrancy, and plants begin to wilt. However, one particular flower prevails—the chrysanthemum.
In Harmony With Colors: From Ancient Chinese Theory to Everyday Life
There is no better way to describe our world than as a kaleidoscope of colors. In traditional Chinese culture, colors are not just hues and pigments. Backed by five millennia of wisdom and culture, colors communicate in a language all their own.
A Pageant Like No Other: The Crowning of Miss NTD
On Sept. 30th, New York welcomed the grand finale of the first-ever NTD Global Chinese Beauty Pageant. It was part of a series of international cultural and arts events hosted by New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV).
Beautifying The Big Apple: How One Construction Executive Is Transforming NYC One Building at a Time
As visitors meander the streets of New York City, their first sight is undoubtedly the city’s wild assortment of buildings. From the history-filled red-brick houses to the towering skyscrapers, a location can, in many ways, be defined by its architecture.
Timeless Elegance: Contemporary pageant rediscovers ancient beauty
“Gentle” and “graceful.” Those are the words used to describe an ideal woman in “Fishhawk,” the first poem in the Classic of Poetry, China’s oldest poetry anthology. For nearly the entirety of China’s 5,000 years of history, gentle and graceful have been the definitive qualities of a beautiful woman.
The Language of Flowers
Floriography, also called the language of flowers, has been a means of cryptological communication for centuries. Through arrangements of specific flowers, coded messages could be delivered to recipients. In addition, plants have traditionally represented metaphors for virtue or vice.
The Voyage of Life
America’s first great landscape painter, Thomas Cole, was a pivotal figure in the development of a distinctly American artistic identity in the early 19th century. Cole’s masterful landscapes range from picturesque compositions of America’s pristine wilderness to imaginative historical and allegorical scenes.
Thanksgiving: A Day of Light and Hope in Our Darkness
Most of us know some sort of bare-bones history about the origins of Thanksgiving, that three-day feast in 1621 at the Pilgrim colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It included some of the colony’s Native American allies from the Wampanoag tribe and their chief, Massasoit…
Plum Blossoms: Defying the Cold With an Enduring Fragrance
A harsh winter causes most plants to wither and fade, but plum blossoms can withstand the cold. They bloom humbly during the night, signalling to dormant flowers that spring is right around the corner.
