Other Essentials

Chinese Fabrics

Fabric art is popularly spread not only because its collection and appreciation value but also it has more practicability than other arts. The oriental style curtain, cushion cover, sofa cover, sheet or other things made of Chinese fabric introduced by goodorient.com, will bring your room in wonderful view and put classicism, leisure sentiment and orient mysticism to your life. Here we offer more than 300 kinds fabrics which include brocade, cotton, linen, silk, silk brocade, Thai silk, velvet and so on. Welcome you join goodorient.com and enjoy your "Collection of Chinese Life".
Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival - year of the pig! Spring Festival, the new year of Chinese traditional calendar, is one of major traditional national holidays in China. In ancient times, people called the Spring Festival as New Year. The reason for why ancients arranged the beginning of the year in cold days was that people had few work to do instead of harvesting in autumn, collecting in winter and ploughing in spring, weeding in summer. Farmers made full use of such a slack season to celebrate joyfully. In order to rejoice at the New Year, people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stick calligraphies full of joy on doors, most of them were antithetical couplet, phrase, individual character, such as: blessing, longevity, luckiness, propitious New Year and so on. Whereas, some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the old and set up the new, the patterns of paper-cuts mainly consisted of figure, flower, character, any of the twelve animals representing the twelve Earthly Branches, and other animals. It was in recent times that people called the New Year as the Spring Festival. Although China had conducted legislative reform for several times, Chinese traditional calendar was still applied, only after the Revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar had begun to be applied. For distinguishing two new years in Gregorian calendar and Chinese traditional calendar, additionally, the new year in Chinese traditional calendar is around the Beginning of Spring, so people termed the new year in Chinese traditional calendar as the Spring Festival.
Chinese Spices

China is an ancient country. Chinese culinary arts have a long history. They are famous all over the world. Chinese dishes appeal to the senses through colour, shape, aroma and taste. For local styles, Beijing cuisine combines the best features of different regional styles. Shangdong cuisine leads the Northern dishes. Shangdong cooks are good at cooking seafoods. Sichuan cooks specialize in chilies and hot peppers and Sichuan dish is famous for aromatic and spicy sauces. Guangdong cooking makes use of many ingredients. They look for fresh, tender, crisp textures. Huai Yang cuisine stresses the natural flavours. Dishes are strong but not greasy, and light but delicate. Tan cuisine is both sweet and salty, There is a saying that "southerners have a sweet tooth, and northerners crave salt", but Tan dishes manage to satisfy both. All these different cuisines are depending on the special spices that the people used. Many different tastes spices combined in a dish, it improves the best of the material, and removes the bad one. Now Good Orient offers you the usual spices that our Chinese people used everyday!! Like delicious Chinese food? Why not try it yourself? Come on!!
Chinese Snacks & Cookies

China has more than 960 thousand square kilometers. There are several tens provinces and municipalities in China and there are so many different kinds of native specialties, snacks, local cuisine in every region. We introduce you to all kinds of Chinese food from North to South, East to West. Chinese cuisine is one of the greatest methods of cooking. Many elements that have influenced its development. The Chinese people enjoy eating good food at all levels of society so cooking has developed into a very sophisticated art. Therefor, Come on with us, let's enjoy these delicious native specialties, snacks and local cuisine.