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Cold Food Festival, three consecutive days starting the day before the Qingming Festival; All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, two Christian observances commemorating the dead; Day of the Dead, a Mexican celebration similar to the Qingming Festival; Double Ninth Festival, the other or another day to visit and clean up the cemeteries for some Chinese
Li Er (Chinese: 李洱; pinyin: Lǐ Ěr; born 1966) is a Chinese novelist. [1] He is best known for his novel Brother Ying Wu which won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize (2019), one of the most prestigious literature prizes in China.
Reply to Li Shuyi (Chinese: 答李淑一) is a poem written on May 11, 1957 by Mao Zedong to Li Shuyi, a friend of Mao's first wife Yang Kaihui and the widow of the executed Communist leader Liu Zhixun. In the poem, "poplar" refers to Yang Kaihui, whose surname Yang means "poplar", and who also had been executed; and "willow" is the literal ...
Brothers was a new realm of literature for Yu Hua, with the novel often being described as extremely crude and expletive. [4] Brothers has experienced great success with nearly 1 million copies sold in China. [citation needed] By 2019, Yu Hua's works had been published in 38 countries and translated into 35 different languages. [5]
One of the enduring images of Daiyu, often portrayed in Chinese art and re-enacted in Chinese operas, is "Daiyu burying the flowers" (黛玉葬花, Chapters 27–8). Overcome by a spell of melancholy after a misunderstanding with Baoyu, Daiyu goes to the garden to bury fallen petals at a hillside, wrapping them in silk to keep them pure, and ...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow is a novel written by the contemporary Chinese author Wang Anyi.Widely considered to be one of her best works, this story follows the life and romantic encounters of a woman in a changing Shanghai, spanning roughly four decades of the twentieth century.
Summons of the Soul, Summoning of the Soul, or Zhao Hun (Chinese: 招魂, or, with old variant 招䰟; Pinyin: Zhāo Hún) is one of the poems anthologized in the ancient Chinese poetry collection, the Chu Ci. The "Summons of the Soul" consists of a four-part poem.
[1]: 230 They are some of the earliest Chinese literature written in the form of short and medium-length stories and have provided valuable inspiration plot-wise and in other ways for fiction and drama in later eras. Many were preserved in the 10th-century anthology, Taiping Guangji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era). [2]