Bøger af Chaodong Li

Join us on a journey through China's traditional festivals!This picture book series showcases four festivals: Chinese New Year, The Qingming Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival, and The Mid-Autumn Festival, each with a unique history, customs, and traditional food. This book introduces the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month and is one of the traditional festivals in China. With vivid storytelling and beautiful illustrations, one can better understand this festival related to the moon. So get ready to join in the fun and learn all about the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Join us on a journey through China's traditional festivals!This picture book series showcases four festivals: Chinese New Year, The Qingming Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival, and The Mid-Autumn Festival, each with a unique history, customs, and traditional food. This book introduces the Qingming Festival. With both natural and cultural connotations, it is a traditional festival as well as a natural solar term (Pure Brightness). Offering sacrifices to ancestors and going for an outing are the two major themes of the festival. One can easily understand these two customs with vivid storytelling and beautiful illustrations. So get ready to join in the fun and learn all about the Qingming Festival.

Join us on a journey through China's traditional festivals!This picture book series showcases four festivals: Chinese New Year, The Qingming Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival, and The Mid-Autumn Festival, each with a unique history, customs, and traditional food. This book introduces the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Double Fifth Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival. It is a folk festival that integrates worshipping ancestors, praying for blessings, eating delicious food, and enjoying entertainment. With vivid storytelling and beautiful illustrations, it's a great way to learn about different cultures. So get ready to join in the fun and learn all about the Dragon Boat Festival.

Join us on a journey through China's traditional festivals!This picture book series showcases four festivals: Chinese New Year, The Qingming Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival, and The Mid-Autumn Festival, each with a unique history, customs, and traditional food. The first book in the series focuses on the grandest of them all-- Chinese New Year, or " Nian Jie." With vivid storytelling and beautiful illustrations, children will learn about the festival's colorful history, customs, and delicious food. It's the perfect way to instill cultural awareness and appreciation in young minds. So get ready to join in the fun and learn all about Chinese New Year.

The five thousand years long magnificent history of China has made the Chinese an intelligent people that created many great world-renowned projects. Some of them survived thousands of years of changes and still benefit us today. Dujiangyan is not only a great miracle of ancient Chinese hydraulic engineering technology, but also a shining pearl among hydraulic projects around the world. Dujiangyan describes how Li Bing, the governor of Shu County of the Qin State, led the public to build the Dujiangyan water conservancy project more than 2,000 years ago. It also explains the principle of flood control of the project through illustrations.

The five thousand years long magnificent history of China has made the Chinese an intelligent people who created many great world-renowned projects. Some of them survived thousands of years of changes and still benefit us today. Karez well is an underground water conservancy project invented by ancient Chinese living in arid regions. Karez Well depicts the reasons, principles, and history of constructing the Karez wells in Xinjiang, China, and is of great local characteristics. It shows the positive changes that Karez wells have brought to the agricultural production and lives of local people in Xinjiang since its completion.

The five thousand years long magnificent history of China has made the Chinese an intelligent people that created many great world-renowned projects. Some of them survived thousands of years of changes and still benefit us today. The Great Wall (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) is an ancient defense project with the longest construction period and largest construction scale in the world. The Great Wall depicts how the ancient Great Wall of China guarded the country during war and benefited trade in peacetime. The Great Wall not only contributed to the peace and stability of the border regions in ancient China, but also ensured the safe development of the Silk Road.

The five thousand years long magnificent history of China has made the Chinese an intelligent people that created many great world-renowned projects. Some of them survived thousands of years of changes and still benefit us today. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) is an ancient canal with the longest course and largest construction scale in the world. It is also the world's oldest canal. Canals mainly illustrates the complete development process of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal from the Sui Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The book also shows how the canal's completion created tremendous convenience in transportation and great changes for local residents by depicting the prosperous cities along the canal.

Fantastic Chinese Food is a children's book on the history of food in China, starting back in ancient times and taking the reader on a culinary journey to the present day. For example, how were noodles first made? And where was the first hotpot invented? This book can provide the answers. For youngsters interested in Chinese food, this can be a fun and informative read.