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Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine is an important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Overseas Chinese who have settled

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Jenny’s guqin (望月 )

Today ZIYO would like to showcase this professional guqin owned by our student Jenny. Jenny works as a programmer in London, who also plays piano and

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During the PANDEMIC

In order to drink tea when I travel, I usually would prepare a basic gadget for making tea in one of this kind of bamboo

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Chinese Ceramic Artist

景德鎮青塘山房的主人王健,是一名製瓷職人,在他眼中,單色釉瓷器的創作,是宋代人極簡美學的體現:簡單、樸素、內斂。2015年,王健在景德鎮的一個國營瓷廠找到了一塊地,開始造園築家。兩年後,他帶著自己制作的瓷器,和妻兒一起,搬進這座“青塘山房”的園林住宅裏,過起了中國古人般的雅致生活。 Wang Jian, the owner of Qingtang Shanfang, Jingdezhen, is a porcelain maker. He believes that monochrome glaze porcelain is the manifesto of Song minimalism

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A Chinese Incense Maker

敖勇軍小時曾被家人寄養在寺廟一段時間,每天耳濡目染,深受佛教影響。在每天敬香拜佛的過程裏,他對做香產生了濃厚的興趣,從全國各地收集幾百冊記載香學的典籍,又與香學家一起鉆研《香乘》、《陳氏香譜》,還去全世界的香料產地找香材,周圍玩香的朋友都送給他一個外號,“香癡”。

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ZIYO’s Etsy shop

In our Etsy shop, we select some unique objects that we love for tea ceremony, flower arrangement as well as our unique hand made teapots

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Happy dragon boat festival!

Today is one of my favourite Chinese festivals, Duanwu Festival (端午節), also known as the Dragon Boat Festival.  The festival occurs on the 5th day

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