Dujiangyan: Hydraulic structure running for over 2000 years
nº 24: 王文 Wang Wen | 1 may 2014
Around ten years before Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered the building of the Great Wall in 214 b.C., the greatest and most practical work which had yet existed, located in the flatland of Sichuan. Referring to the Dujiangyan pier.
Wing Chun: the art of personal development
nº 23: Joan Ramon Armadàs | 1 march 2014
Ip Man is the man who took Wing Chun to its peak, but this variety of Kungfu, whose Cantonese name means ‘to admire beautiful spring’, finds its origins at the end of 19th Century and a curious history to be discovered in our Custom section.
Chinese stamps
nº 22: Ye Qingghe | 1 january 2014
In the custom section, we widen information on Chinese stamps, their history and evolution as well as their importance for society.
Bama: the Chinese capital of longevity
nº 24: 孙洪威 Sun Hongwei | 1 november 2013
‘It is complicated to find a tree over a thousand years, but much harder it is to find people over a hundred’. However, in a little county of the Yao ethnic minority in the Southwestern Chinese autonomous region of Zhuang de Guangxi named Bamu (巴马), there is a group of elder people who are, not only over a hundred years, but still working the land, have good hearing and good vision.
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