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How the Chinese Lunar Calendar Works, and Why China Still Keeps It

Its months follow the moon, its seasons follow the sun, and the 24 seasonal markers it produced still tell farmers across East Asia when to plant.

Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s

Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes know...

6 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attract Luck & Prosperity On July 22, 2026

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For a Thousand Years, the Chinese Pinned Catalpa Leaves to Welcome Autumn

The custom of wearing catalpa leaves on the first day of autumn began in Tang dynasty Chang'an and lasted through the Qing dynasty, carried by a pun on the tree's name.

Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now Through August 16

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Monthly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign For September 2026

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Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now Through August 23

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The August 2026 Monthly Chinese Horoscope Is Here For Each Animal Sign

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Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now Through August 9

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Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now Through August 30

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6 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attract Luck & Financial Success On July 21, 2026

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In His Final Months, Mao Zedong Read the Sky for Omens

The Party spent a decade prosecuting fortune-tellers. In the months before Tangshan, its chairman was reading the sky.

6 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attract Major Luck & Success On July 23, 2026

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Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now To August 2

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6 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attract Luck & Happiness On July 14, 2026

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Chinese man discovers family dining table is ancestor’s Qing dynasty academic record

A man in eastern China was stunned to discover that his family’s battered dining table was in fact a Qing dynasty (1644–1912) honour board commemorating an ancestor’s success in th...

Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now To July 26

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6 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attract Luck & Happiness On July 20, 2026

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Weekly Chinese Horoscopes Are Here For Each Animal Sign From Now To July 19

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