Festival Makes Us Miss Home

The Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year. It is called Yuanxiao Festival in Chinese. Yuan means the start or beginning. Xiao means night. This is the night of the first full moon in a year. In...

Not just another Chinese New Year

Chinese people all around the world are making dumplings and eating banquets with close family members for the Spring Festival. The celebration usually lasts for 15 days. This year the Chinese new year is February 12th to 26th. You might have heard that Chinese...

In the name of Family

Imagine if you were a child and abandoned by an emotionally abusive mom, being left with a dad who is married to the job. Or growing up with a single mom, then all of a sudden mom disappeared and never came back again. Being a young child, you have to face...

Family. Country. Home

Mid-autumn day, some call it the Moon festival, is an important holiday for many people with Chinese cultural backgrounds. It is on August 15th in the Lunar calendar every year. On this day the moon is most round and complete, which is a symbol of hope that the family...