Love is in the air again as Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, falls on August 16 this year.
Tag: Mythology
Lao Mythology: The Myth of the Toad King
Bang Fai, otherwise known as the Rocket Festival, is celebrated every year in northeast Thailand and Laos. Ask anyone who knows anything about the Rocket Festival and they’ll probably tell you that Bang Fai are launched every year in April to bring rain.
This centuries old tradition is said to have its origins in an ancient story known as The Myth of the Toad King. However, what’s strange about this myth is that it seems to imply the opposite of what Bang Fai is all about. It says that rain brings the rockets. As presented by Yasothon and Nong Khai:
Laos’ Enigmatic Plain of Jars
Verdant green valleys and mountains were the first thing I noticed on our first morning in Xieng Khuang Province. The numerous bomb craters dotting the land were a close second. Traveling through this northern province of Laos, it was easy to see how it was utterly devastated by the Vietnam War. Between 1964 and 1973, almost every […]
Yeh-Shen: The Chinese Cinderella
Did you know the first written Cinderella story, called Yeh-Shen, was written in 850 A.D. in China? Read on to read the story of the Chinese Cinderella.
Through the Dragon’s Eye
We were heading home on the bike the other day and were crossing a bridge, when I noticed some extremely bright lights on the far bank. For us to even notice a bunch of extra lights in the neon world of Taipei is pretty rare, so we figured we’d better see what all the fuss […]