Shui Jiao, which today simply means "to sleep," actually had a much deeper meaning in ancient times. After all, sleeping also includes dreaming, which can have a powerful effect on our minds, even leading to great discoveries!
Having already filled his team of 14, Coach Yang Kun gets to enjoy the show along with the audience. Take a look back at the contestants he snagged. Plus, a single mother delivers a moving performance for her daughter.
Shu Jiang has been making ham for ten years, but he's still not as good as his father. What are the tricks to make good hams? When the weather is humid enough, do those hams go mouldy?
What makes Nuodeng salt the best option for ham-making? How is Nuodeng ham made and what's the best way to enjoy it?
The enterprising but fraudulent lamb skewer vendor keeps up his charade, pretending not to know enough Mandarin to understand the inspector when he requests to see the man's business license.
The astronomical cost of buying a home is one the biggest gripes for many Chinese people. However, the cost of buying a home after one's death may be even more prohibitive. This news report details this new trend of daylight grave robbery.
The importance of sleep and meditation is analyzed, citing a proverb from Zeng Guofan, a famous military general and scholar.
More on contemporary Chinese attitudes toward love and marriage, including how those views changed in response to a controversial 2011 marriage law and the Japanese earthquake. There's now a new realization that home ownership is not the most important prerequisite for tying the knot.
Didn't love used to be simpler? This video certainly thinks so. With rising incomes and living standards comes rising expectations when it comes to finding "The One." This video looks at the importance of money in the marriage fortunes of Chinese men.
The skit continues with the lamb skewer hawker pretending to be a Uyghur- the ethnic minority associated with his culinary product- to fool the inspector. The only problem is, he knows nothing about his fake homeland, the far western region of Xinjiang.
This classic comedy sketch from the 1986 New Year's Eve Gala features a wily, unlicensed lamb skewer vendor trying to get out of paying a fine.
A young truck driver gives himself one last chance to prove to his skeptical father that he has the talent to make it as a singer. But first, he has to convince the coaches.
We learn the ingenious way that the urn was filled with wine and begin the remarkable story of how it came to be housed in the Shanxi History Museum.
A cautionary tale featuring some of China's biggest internet companies. In the space of just five days, over 200 people were swindled in what is essentially the Nigerian Prince scam with Chinese characteristics.
This entertaining and informative video on the Chinese obsession with gift-giving reveals a lot about contemporary Chinese social and political issues (covering everything from social competition to corrupt officials) and also delves into the ancient origins of this long-running practice.
This video concerns one of the stories from the very famous Chinese novel, "Journey to the West." It informs us from where the idiom, "to wolf down your food," originates.
Zhao Ke has had intensive classical music training since he was just ten years old. However, his real passion is for jazz. Can he fulfill his dream of bringing jazz to a wider audience of Chinese listeners?
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, thus bringing communal marriage to an end. However, it was initially met with resistance. Part 3 of 5.
Lao Huang and his son, Shu Jiang, started building a mud kitchen to boil salt. So, what are they doing with that much salt?
Twenty-year-old Wang Qiwei has always felt ashamed that his girly voice doesn't match his manly appearance. Will the coaches give him the confidence he needs to shine?
Meijia has accidently discovered that Guan Gu drew one of her favorite Japanese comic books. For some reason, that comic stopped being released. Will Guan Gu continue to draw it?
E-commerce is a rapidly growing sector of the Chinese economy as consumers increasingly turn to the internet to find cheap goods. Now, the government wants to start taxing the sector, which businesses say means prices will increase.
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