Sunday, February 06, 2005

read this article: With Brewery Closures, Germany Faces Brauereisterben

like germans, young chinese are not interested in traditional chinese yellow wine any more. my father is a big fan of yellow wine, and it's said that "beer is liquid bread, and yellow wine is liquid cake".

the best yellow wine is from Shaoxing, Zhejiang province:

shaoxing wine

unlike Baijiu, which is much stronger and more polular in the north, yellow wine is very mild and prefered by people living in the south. now it is becoming a wine for old people.

posted @ 7:38 PM

via: china the beautiful

what is a chinese chunlian? read this article.

i bought a chunlian from a local market, it's not a hand-written one but a mass-produced from a factory, but anyway it looks good. now it is on the door of our home. somewhat like this, but without the one on the top:

                                        

this is how it is decorated in a chinese family:

posted @ 7:19 PM