https://www.scmp.com/rss/330401/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Researchers have found an exotic incense – elemi – used in China more than a thousand years ago. The incense was discovered in containers buried in the underground palace of Famen Temple in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. The discovery provided the earliest evidence of elemi used as an incense associated with Buddhist rituals in the Tang dynasty, which ruled from the seventh to the 10th centuries, according to the researchers. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3178274/researchers-find-remnants-ancient-incense-palace-famen-temple?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3178274/researchers-find-remnants-ancient-incense-palace-famen-temple?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 May 2022 23:00:18 +0000 Although many people think of wonton noodle soup as a proper meal, the dish was originally introduced as a light snack to be eaten before or after the theater. A few decades ago, folks in southern China would grab a tiny bowl consisting of a few bites of noodles and a couple of dumplings as a quick snack. In Hong Kong, the dish is called sai yung (細蓉), literally “small hibiscus.” There are many stories about the name’s origin, but the most common one has to do with a pun related to Tang Dynasty... https://www.scmp.com/food/tiny-snack-kept-hong-kong-moving/article/3000179?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/tiny-snack-kept-hong-kong-moving/article/3000179?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:39:39 +0000 Winnie Chui is one of Hong Kong’s few remaining practitioners of an age-old craft: making calligraphy brushes with baby hair. These tokens of nativity, known in Chinese as taimaobi (胎毛笔), or “fetal brushes,” represent parents’ hopes that their children might become wise and filial. The locks are taken from an infant’s first haircut, usually before the baby turns 3. “Only the first growth of hair is used,” Chui says, “because that’s the only time when human hair tapers naturally at the tip.” The... https://www.scmp.com/culture/calligraphy-brushes-baby-hair/article/3000163?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/calligraphy-brushes-baby-hair/article/3000163?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:14:47 +0000