Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, tracing back to thousands of years ago. Important components of Chinese culture includes ceramics, architecture, music, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy and religion.
Chinese cuisine includes cuisines originating from the diverse regions of China as well as from Overseas Chinese who have settled in other parts of the world. Chinese food staples such as rice, soy sauce, noodles, tea, chili oil and tofu, and utensils such as chopsticks and the wok, can now be found worldwide.
The Lantern Festival (元宵节 yuán xiāo jié) is the festival that closes the cycle of Chinese New Year holidays. For this reason it is also called “Little New Year” (小年 xiǎo nián). Chinese lanterns (孔明灯 kǒng míng dēng) are used in China as a sign of good luck. People also used to write on traditional…
Despite the particular situation of the covid, CCSA has never stopped!the 23th December 2020 CCSA organized a Christmas event a bit special, but definitely unforgettable, spreading joy in the cold winter.From exciting cultural games to amazing gifts, from laughter to music and finally a delicate moment in which everyone expresses their desires and hopes for…
Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is celebrated in China between 21st January and 19th February, so not on a fixed date. This is due the fact that the Chinese traditional calendar is the lunisolar one, which has been existing from more than 5000 years. This year’s Spring Festival will be on 5th…
On 6th December 2018, thanks to the students and all the people who believed in us, the CCSA was inaugurated at the Chinese Cultural Centre (CCC). At 7pm, the hall was already crowded by people of all ages. There were journalists, representatives of other associations and students not only from the Catholic University, but even…