by Charity Lee Jennings | Feb 6, 2019
Lanterns’ Dance While the city is outside celebrating, I’m in bed recovering. For days I’d been anticipating creating this drawing. I want to be strong and free, like the wind that gives these lanterns their dance – yet I could only dream. Sickness drained...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Oct 3, 2018
After all this time in China, I have yet to acquire a taste for mooncakes. It’s not surprising, I guess. I asked a Chinese friend if she liked them and she said, “they’re too heavy and oily. I just take a nibble to celebrate mid-autumn festival and remember what China...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Mar 7, 2018
Did you know that in China, Chinese New Year is more commonly called Spring Festival? The fifteen day celebration truly is designed to put the coldest days of winter behind and usher in Spring. Friday night was Lantern Festival, the last night of the celebration and...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Aug 23, 2017
Tens of thousands of couples chose sacred seven as their wedding date. Going back a decade, wedding website The Knot usually had around 12,000 couples registered and preparing to unite on any given Saturday in July, but leading up to 7/7/07, there was triple the...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Jun 17, 2017
I’ve never seen a dragon boat race but I’ve joined many Chinese people in eating zongzi, a rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves, to remember the life of one of China’s greatest poets and scholars, Qu Yuan. Human nature hasn’t changed since the 3rd century BC. Qu...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Feb 2, 2017
The photo above is meat curing – just down the street from our home. “What should we eat?” I squeezed into a chair at the hole-in-the-wall restaurant and suggestions came from the group of friends. “Garlic cucumbers.” “Egg and tomato.” “Glass noodles.” Our table...
