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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
A poetic season is around the corner. In many regions, the arrival of autumn overturns nature’s color palette, leaving a multihued landscape of orange, yellow, scarlet, and brown. Maple forests, vibrant at first and shriveled in the end, forecast both the advent and departure of autumn.
Since Biblical times, we’ve been searching for our other halves, wanting to ride into the sunset with our one true love, and marrying the love of our life. But marriage traditions through the ages have ranged from joyous to somber.
