Culture & Daily Life

A board game is a tabletop game played by moving pieces on a marked surface under fixed rules, with a history spanning several millennia and a modern design culture.

A national museum in London preserving and interpreting collections of human history, art, and culture from across the world.

Chess is a two-player strategy board game on an 8×8 board. It grew out of South Asian games, and its modern competitive system is built around FIDE, the Elo rating system and the World Championship.

A traditional lunisolar calendar combining lunar months with solar seasonal markers, used to date Chinese festivals and cultural observances.

Chinese New Year's Eve (Chuxi) is the last evening of the lunar year, marked by reunion dinners, ancestral rites, staying awake, and fireworks.

Christmas is the annual Christian feast celebrating the birth of Jesus, observed on 25 December and widely marked by religious and secular customs.

Cultural heritage comprises inherited places, objects, knowledge, and practices that communities value and transmit to future generations.

Culture is the learned and shared system of meanings, practices, values, and material forms through which people organize social life.

Easter is the central Christian feast celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, observed on a movable Sunday in spring.

Fact-checking evaluates factual claims against verifiable evidence, both before publication and after claims enter public circulation.

Go is a two-player strategy board game originating in China, in which players use black and white stones to surround territory and compete for the higher score.

The internationally predominant civil calendar, introduced in 1582 to improve the Julian calendar’s alignment with the seasons.

Hanlu, or Cold Dew, is the seventeenth of the twenty-four Chinese solar terms, marking a stage of autumn associated with cooling weather, migrating geese, and flowering chrysanthemums.

Living practices, expressions, knowledge, and skills recognized by communities as their heritage and transmitted across generations.

Jiaozi are Chinese filled dumplings with diverse preparations, regional varieties, and important roles in family meals and festive traditions.

Journalism is the gathering, verification, interpretation, and public communication of news and information about events and issues.

Ke Jie (born 1997) is a Chinese professional Go player, an eight-time world champion and former top-ranked player in the world.

Labubu is a line of collectible plush toys and figurines created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung and sold by China's Pop Mart, known for its toothy grin and blind-box releases.

Chinese festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, marking the end of the New Year season with lanterns, glutinous rice balls and riddles.

Leif Erikson Day is a United States observance held on October 9 to commemorate Norse exploration of North America and Nordic-American heritage.

Communication technologies and institutions that distribute news, entertainment, and other content to large, dispersed audiences.

Material culture comprises the objects and built environments through which people organize daily life, express meanings, and sustain social relationships.

An autumn festival centered on moon appreciation, reunion, and seasonal traditions, celebrated in Chinese, Vietnamese, and other communities.

A museum is an institution that preserves, researches, interprets, and presents cultural or natural heritage for public learning and enjoyment.

An annual holiday on 10 October commemorating the 1911 Wuchang Uprising, observed in Taiwan and by overseas communities.

Nian gao is a family of Chinese rice cakes, made in sweet and savory forms and especially associated with Lunar New Year celebrations.

The Nobel Banquet is the formal dinner held in Stockholm on 10 December to celebrate Nobel laureates following the prize award ceremony.

A Nobel Committee evaluates candidates for a Nobel award; most recommend laureates to a larger institution, while the Norwegian committee decides the Peace Prize itself.

The Nobel Foundation is a Swedish private foundation that manages Alfred Nobel’s financial legacy and supports the administration and independence of the Nobel Prizes.

An international system of awards established by Alfred Nobel’s will, recognizing achievements in science, literature, and peace, with an associated memorial prize in economics.

The 2025 Nobel awards honoured fourteen individuals for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences.

Oral tradition transmits cultural knowledge, stories, values, and expressive practices through speech, song, and performance across generations.

Annual American prizes for journalism, letters, drama and music, funded by Joseph Pulitzer's will and administered by Columbia University since 1917.

A red envelope is a ceremonial gift of money, associated especially with Chinese New Year and other auspicious occasions, that conveys blessings, goodwill, or appreciation.

A ritual is a patterned, symbolically significant practice through which people express beliefs, mark transitions, and organize social relationships.

Singles' Day, also called Double 11, is a holiday on 11 November that began as a celebration of singlehood in China and became a major online shopping festival.

Sisyphus is a cunning king in Greek mythology, condemned to push a boulder uphill forever, whose story became an influential image of futile labor and human defiance.

Paired auspicious inscriptions displayed at Chinese New Year, combining literary parallelism, calligraphy, and seasonal custom.

Spring Festival is the traditional Chinese New Year celebration, beginning on the first day of the first lunar month and centered on welcoming the new year and family reunions.

An annual holiday of gratitude, harvest traditions, and communal meals, celebrated chiefly in the United States and Canada.

A system of 24 seasonal divisions from traditional Chinese lunisolar calendars, tied to the sun's position and inscribed on UNESCO's heritage list in 2016.

An international register of cultural and natural properties recognized for outstanding universal value under UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention.

World Space Week is an annual United Nations observance, held from October 4 to 10, celebrating the contributions of space science and technology to humanity.