In this new series of articles exploring Chinese characters, 一 (yī) is the first character we will introduce.
A story from ancient China illustrates the importance of cooperation.
The second in a three part series on Chinese calligraphy in Taiwan: the students, the teachers, and their meetings
A short anecdote about Emperor Tang Taizong's views on flattery.
"The resurgence of traditional Chinese cultural values has to come from the outside."
Some Committee members want to replace Simplified Chinese characters with Traditional over the next ten years.
The Kuanghsing paper factory nestled among the mountains in Puli, Taiwan, has an important cultural mission.
夫 (Fu) in Chinese is especially used with the connected characters 丈夫 (zhangfu), husband, spouse, and consists of the two ideograms 大 (da) and 一 (yi). 大 means big, because in contrast to a woman, a man was always bigger in the imagination of the Chinese people.
Two thousand years ago during the Han Dynasty ago Han Xin was a renowned general and was credited to have positively influenced the establishment of Emperor Liu Bang's dynasty.
Zengzi was one of Confucius' most outstanding students.