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It is truly an amazing sight to watch a master cut intricate patterns with merely a pair of scissors and a piece of paper! Paper cutting is a traditional art form, which is still popular in China today. Watch how Ms. Ai, a master at paper cutting, continually expands her business and, at the same time, helps fellow women to earn extra income through paper cutting.

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While everyone holds chopsticks to eat in China, what is the proper way to do so? What is the proper chopstick-holding etiquette and what do people from different parts of China believe about it?

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Can all Chinese people hold chopsticks in the correct way? This is not always the case!

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Watch this entertaining competition in which Chinese people put their chopstick abilities to the test.

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Famous stars talk about the different uses of bamboo and the role it played in their childhood.

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Famous stars are put to the test to see if they know the proper uses of bamboo utensils.

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One of the guests recites a famous poem that speaks of the tenacity of the bamboo and its representation of the Chinese people.

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An expert explains the origins of the brush pen and bamboo slips and how the Chinese characters for these items came about.

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Famous guests discuss the wide variety of traditional Chinese bamboo and stringed musical instruments.

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Why do parents these days have their children learn Western instruments instead of traditional Chinese instruments?

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Members of the Dai ethnic group explain the role bamboo plays in their lives as well as courting rituals.

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Let`s talk about the oil-paper umbrellas that originated from Sichuan`s Luzhou city.

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This video explains the origins of the oil-paper umbrella.

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The choice of bamboo is extremely important in the construction of oil-paper umbrellas.

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The oil-paper umbrella is beginning to take shape. Next in the process is preparing the paper.

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This video details the final steps in producing the oil-paper umbrella.

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This video explains the oil in oil-paper umbrellas.

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Why do oil-paper umbrellas from Luzhou have such a great reputation?

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This story is about Han Prime Minister Cao Cao's six-year-old son, Cao Chong (196 to 208 B.C.). The theory this little boy used to weigh an elephant is similar to Archimedes' Principle (287 to 212 B.C.), which is that the weight of an object submerged in fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.

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This well-known story commonly used to educate children on the values of courtesy and fraternal love involves four-year-old Kong Rong giving up some larger pears to his older and younger brothers. Still employed in current times, this text has been used for elementary education since the Song Dynasty.

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This idiom indicates that something seemingly bad may turn out to have been a good thing in the end, a blessing in disguise. The story in the video explains it quite well. And, while the idiom can also have the opposite meaning (a good thing becoming something bad), the former is more frequently used.

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There are many different Chinese idioms out there that people use today in modern Chinese. "Dui Niu Tan Qin" literally means, "Playing the Zither for a Cow." It means that some people will just never understand or appreciate certain things.

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This tells the story of how the ancestor of the Han Chinese, the Yellow Emperor, established the custom of marriage and honeymoons in China thousands of years ago, uniting tribes and bringing communal marriage to an end. Part 1 of 5.

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