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		<title>Sweeping the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweeping the dust has been a traditional custom in China for a long time. Around the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every household will sweep the dust in their house. Literally, weeping the dust means have a thorough cleaning of a house. In Chinese, dust shares the same pronunciation with the word of past [...]
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		<title>Ancient Chinese Sex Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ancient China, sex education was not a topic that could be freely discussed in public as any communication about sexuality would be considered taboo. However, in order to fulfill the obligation to family and to have sons, the newlyweds must have a basic understanding of how to do on their wedding night. There were [...]
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		<title>the March 3rd Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 3rd Festival, also called Shangsi Festival in ancient times, falls on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month of each year. It is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated by a large number of nationalities in China. The Shangsi Festival has a history of thousand years. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was [...]
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		<title>Paying A New Year Call</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paying a New Year call, also called “Bai Nian” in Chinese, is a kind of traditional folk activity during the Spring Festival. When the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar comes, the most exciting thing Chinese people would like to do is to pay a New Year call. On the first [...]
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		<title>Wedding Bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ancient China, it is a custom for parents to prepare a dowry for their daughters. The dowry will be sent to the groom&#8217;s family a few days before the wedding. The dowry consists of an amount of practical items, including money, clothes, bed, etc. It is not only a blessing to the parents&#8217; own [...]
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