...China China is an ancient culture with numerous regional and national traditions and values. While some of the traditions have died out, many are still a very important part of the Chinese society. The role of men and women in China has changed significantly. In China (100 years ago up to a few decades ago), women were treated as inferior in comparison to men, and were restricted to the confines of their homes to raise the children and clean (Live Science, 2013). They would also sew and weave, and prepare food for guests. Women were thought of as yielding, receptive, passive, reflective, and tranquil, where men were hard, active, assertive, and dominating. The men were the sole income and ‘head of the household’. Their job was to bring home money and food for the wife and children while the woman stayed at home. Throughout much of China’s history, women were undermined and almost used as slaves. When communism was introduced (in the 1920’s), women and men became more equal, although they are still not completely equivalent in terms of social and economic status. The One-Child-Policy has pushed the number of women down in China, due to Chinese parents only wanting boys (they are thought of as more ‘beneficial’). Men are still the ‘dominant race’, as they are higher in the percentage of the population in China. In Australia, women and men are almost completely equal. Both women and men both work in politics, manual labour, education, law enforcement, etc. with almost equivalent...
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...Mid-autumn festival is called Tet Trung Thu in Vietnam. It is organized in the middle of the Autumn which is the eighth lunar month of the year. Mid-autumn festival is the festival of the children. From the beginning of the month, people have prepared for the festival with colorful and different shape lanterns. Moon cakes or mid-autumn cakes are also prepared along with the various toys for children. There are many traditional toys that the most typical ones are star lantern, paper doctor human, animal shape lantern, etc. Children carry the lanterns walk from streets to streets in the funny sounds of their singing every evening. When the principle time of the festival comes, there are groups of lion dance with crowded drums and cymbals. In this occasion, to enjoy the beauty of the moon, there are many activities are organized. Adults and children have their own way of celebrating. Competition of feast and lantern In the day of Mid-Autumn, people make the feast with moon shape cakes, lanterns and flowers decorating, and jubilant dancing. There are many competitions to make feast and make cakes among the women. Children would also have competition in showing their lanterns, and lantern processing. Many families place the feast for children and there was often a paper doctor human in the highest location of the feast, and the fruits and flowers surround all. After enjoy the feast and moon, children will eat what they have in the feast while it is on the late evening. Folk songs...
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...Introduction chinese culture Chinese culture is one of the world’s oldest and most complex. The area in which the culture is dominant covers a huge geographical region in eastern Asia with customs and traditions varying greatly between towns, cities and provinces. Important components of Chinese culture includes art,cuisine, festival and etc. People in the culture Identity Throughout history, many recognized ethnic groups have been assimilated into neighboring ethnicities or disappeared without a trace. At the same time, many within the Han identity have maintained distinct linguistic and regional cultural traditions. The term Zhonghua Minzu has been used to describe the notion of Chinese nationalism in general. Much of the traditional identity within the community has to do with distinguishing the family name. Values Most social values are derived from Confucianism and Taoism. The subject of which school was the most influential is always debated as many concepts such as Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism and many others. Reincarnation and other rebirth concept is a reminder of the connection between real-life and the after-life. In Chinese business culture, the concept of guanxi, indicating the primacy of relations over rules, has been well documented. Chinese Language The Chinese language (汉语/漢語 Hànyǔ; 华语/華語 Huáyǔ; 中文 Zhōngwén) is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees.[4] Originally the indigenous languages...
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...calendar that “[combines the] solar [and] lunar calendar in that it strives to have its years coincide with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months” (“The Chinese Calendar”). Unlike the American New Year ritual, the Chinese New Year ritual does not have a set date, but it is determined by a celestial calendar. The Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, lasts about 15 days and, like with any ritual, is a time for reunion. The Chinese Lunar New Year also employs the use of sky media in their celebrations, as fireworks are often launched into the sky to drive away evil. On the 15th day, people gather in the streets for the Lantern Festival, which historically, “was also called Shang Yuan (上元) [and] was dedicated to the heavenly palace (天宫—tiān gōng). People would gather in their yards and give offerings to the gods. The lit lantern near the setup represented a god’s seat” (“Lantern Festival”). In China, the use of sky media goes beyond symbolizing a new year, as the people translate their devotion to the gods through the images of lanterns being sent up into the sky. The materialization of what cannot be seen is demonstrated again, however, instead of the materialization being time which brings people together to unite during rituals, in this case, it is the materialization of devotion which brings people together to unite with their gods as well. Similar to the Chinese Calendar used to determine the Lunar ritual, the Jewish calendar is based off...
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...Lunar New Year is the beginning of the year based on a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar. It is also called Spring Festival, which is held by several Asian countries, such as China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Korea. In China, it is known as “春節 (Chūnjié)”, it marks the end of the winter and lets the spring begin. In Vietnam, it is “Tết Nguyên Đán.” The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Lunar New Year started from the Era of The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in China and it has been changed by years. Each year will be under a Chinese Zodiac in order of Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit (Cat in Vietnam), Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig (Boar in Japan and Elephant in Northern Thailand), following with Yin-Yang system and Five Phases (wŭ xíng- includes Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Soil.) In Lunar New Year, people believe that everything is new will bring luckiness. About ten days before New Year, people will clean up the house, paint the walls, cook special dishes, and buy some new stuff. Many things are covered by red color- the symbol of luck. This is an opportunity of family reunion. People also avoid fighting, arguing, and saying bad things. The children can get a lot of money in red envelopes to get good luck. Clothing mainly featuring the color red or bright colors is commonly worn throughout the Lunar New Year because it...
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...Chinese cuisine Cooking Chinese is one of the greatest method in cooking. Chinese cuisine is consists two general components one is main food which contains starch or carbohydrate source, rice, noodles or buns. The second one is accompanying dishes which has vegetables, fish, meat. The primary eating utensil in the Chinese culture for the solid food are chopsticks, whereas spoons are used for soups. Traditionally there are eight main dishes style in Chinese cuisine which are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan, Zhejiang (shanghaifinance,2003). Chinese festivals The Chinese festivals starts with its new year which is first day of a year in lunar calendar usually between Jan and early Feb. followed by Lantern festival on the first day of the lunar month consists garden parties, firework displays and folk dance like dragon dance, lion dances. Then comes the dragon boat festival on 5th day of 5th lunar month and it contains activities like dragon boat racing and eating Zong Zi somewhat like pyramid shaped rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves (shanghaifinance,2003). Traditional Chinese music When listening to Chinese music, those who are unfamiliar with the music will not know what they are listening which is something very different and truly magnificent. The traditional Chinese music had diverse variations depending upon the time period. In traditional Chinese orchestras, the mixture of all the diverse instruments served to make a melodious and beautiful...
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...My favorite holiday There are many festivals in our country, and there are more and more western festivals and cultures coming together, but I like the Chinese Spring Festival most, because there are so many culture about it.The festival is the most important one in China,In fact,it's the highlight of the year. It is also named the Chinese New Year, it comes in January or February, and it has long been an occasion for family reunions. So, in the festival, most of Chinese people prefer to return their hometown, and spend the time with their family members. Before the holiday, people begin to get ready. We clean the house and make special purchases for the Spring Festival. In China, there have a traditional habit that is we dress new clothes in New Year. So mothers must buy new clothes for each of us. In addition, peopleprepare all kinds of delicious foodssuch as dumplings,glutinous rice cake, smoked fish and meat. A series of colorful celebration activities begin on New Year's Eve, the last day of the last lunar month.Weget together to have a big feast, also namely, have a family reunion dinner. After the dinner, adults set off firecrackers. In the evening, it is children’ time, they are especially happy, because they not onlycan get presents and treats,including red envelopes, also can enjoy fireworks or play with lantern. On the Spring Festival Eve, it is a folk custom to stay up late or all night to pray for peace and prosperity in the coming year.At the same time, we generallywatch...
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...My favorite holiday There are many festivals in our country, and there are more and more western festivals and cultures coming together, but I like the Chinese Spring Festival most, because there are so many cultures about it. The festival is the most important one in China. In fact, it’s the highlight of the year. It is also named the Chinese New Year, it comes in January or February, and it has long been an occasion for family reunions. So, in the festival, most of Chinese people prefer to return their hometown, and spend the time with their family members. Before the holiday, people begin to get ready. We clean the house and make special purchases for the Spring Festival. In China, there have a traditional habit that is we dress new clothes in New Year. So mothers must buy new clothes for each of us. In addition, people prepare all kinds of delicious foods such as dumplings, glutinous rice cake, smoked fish and meat. A series of colorful celebration activities begin on New Year's Eve, the last day of the last lunar month. We get together to have a big feast, also namely, have a family reunion dinner. After the dinner, adults set off firecrackers. In the evening, it is children’ time, they are especially happy, because they not only can get presents and treats, including red envelopes, also can enjoy fireworks or play with lantern. On the Spring Festival Eve, it is a folk custom to stay up late or all night to pray for peace and prosperity in the coming year. At the same...
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...China (traditional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and a nation in East Asia. The last Chinese Civil War has resulted in two nations: The People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, has control over mainland China and the largely self-governing territories of Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999). The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, has control over the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. China has one of the world's oldest civilizations and has the oldest continuous civilization.[1] It has archaeological evidence over 5,000 years old. It also has one of the world's oldest writing systems, and is viewed as the source of many major inventions. The first recorded use of the word "China" is dated 1555.[nb 1][3] It is derived from Cin, a Persian name for China popularized in Europe by Marco Polo. History of China Ancient China was one of the first civilizations. Chinese civilization was also one of the few to invent writing,[2] the others being Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley civilization, the Maya civilization, the Minoan civilization of ancient Greece, and Ancient Egypt.[5] It reached its golden age during the Tang Dynasty (about A.D. 10th century). China is home to some of the oldest artwork in the world. Statues and pottery, as well as decorations made of jade, are some classic examples. China's economy and military weakened during the Qing Dynasty (around the 17th...
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...During the holidays, tourism economy is "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" an important engine for the sustainable development of China's economy, is also a 1.3 billion Chinese reform tangible dividends, is worth focusing on. As a CPPCC member, continuously paying attention to this issue, I have related proposals for three consecutive years. This year my proposals include the following four contents: One is about the Spring Festival holiday arrangement. I still continue to advocate the differences between town and country vacation plan, it is suggested that the national urban and rural counties and cities and below, the lunar New Year holiday from New Year's eve on the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival. Specific reasons I have been doing in the 2015's proposal in detail. New Year's eve is the beginning of the Spring Festival, the whole family reunion; Yuanxiao is one of the most famous traditional Chinese carnival, meaning that the end of the Spring Festival. For now, the Chinese Spring Festival has become a veritable "golden week" in the world, and critical for the world China has excited the world, this article big tourism, how to do their Spring Festival to delve into the government authority, elaborate design. The second is to encourage countries with characteristics of small short ones. This special is advantageous to the development of local tourism economy. Hubei province has been developing 2 days a week and a half holiday plan, I think that is worth...
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...officially and conveniently divided into 5 homogeneous physical macro-regions: Eastern China (subdivided into the northeast plain, north plain, and southern hills), Xinjiang-Mongolia, and the Tibetan-highlands. Its physical features are multiples. The eastern and southern half of the country, its seacoast fringed with offshore islands, is a region of fertile lowlands and foothills with most of the agricultural output and human population. The western and northern half of China is a region of sunken basins (Gobi, Taklamakan), rolling plateaus, and towering massifs, including a portion of the highest tableland on earth (Tibetan Plateau) with lower agricultural possibilities and thus, far less populated. Traditionally, the Chinese population centered around the Chinese central plain and oriented itself toward its own enormous inland market, developing as an imperial power whose center lay in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River on the northern plains. More recently, the 18,000-kilometers coastline have been used extensively for export-oriented trade, making a power shift, with the coastline provinces becoming the leading economic center. With an area of about 9.6 million km², the People's Republic of China is the 3rd largest country in total area behind Russia and Canada, and very similar to the United States. This figure is sometimes challenged by border disputes, most notably about Taiwan, Aksai Chin, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, and South Tibet.[1] Climate of China ...
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...Chinese Culture(中国传统文化) Ghulam Abbas Kan (3115999115) Email id:abbasalmani591@hotmail.com School of Electronic and information Xi’an Jiaotong University. INTRODUCTION: Culture itself is a relatively large concept. Generally speaking, culture is a kind of social phenomenon, and it is the product of people's long-term creation. At the same time, it is a historical accumulation of social history. The general culture is the sum of all the material and spiritual wealth created by human beings. Exactly speaking, culture refers to a country or a nation's history, geographical conditions, traditions, customs, way of life, literature, art, normative behavior, ways of thinking, values, and so on. According to the definition of British anthropologist Edward teller, culture "includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and as a member of the society the ability and habits that complex whole". Its core is as spiritual products of all kinds of knowledge, this matter is spread. Culture is a phenomenon peculiar to human beings. Culture is created by people, being unique.The culture is the product of human social practice. Chinese traditional culture is the civilization evolution and exchange integrated a reflect the national character and style of the national culture is nation in the history of all kinds of thoughts and ideology of the overall characterization, refers to the living in the area of Chinese nation and the ancestors created and inherited from generation to generation...
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...Culture and Society Culture is the reflection of our lifestyle and society. It is culture which makes one society different from another. Society is the largest form of human group who shares a common culture. Members of the society learn the culture and transmit it from one generation to the next. So culture and society is linked with each other. Culture is basically the summation of social customs and traditions which are carried from one generation to other, knowledge, material objects, values, belief, language, behavior and many more. So culture is a vast topic. In our daily life the term culture is used to complement any fine art or refined intellectual taste or any socially praised behavior. But in sociological term culture includes all elements and ideas of a society. A group of people who cultivates soil by hand has just as much culture as the group of people who relies on computer operated machinery has. But their cultures are different from each other. A particular society has a particular culture. The major theoretical perspectives on culture and society: Sociologists view culture and society from different perspectives. They are given below - • If we analyze culture and society from the functionalist perspective “Culture reflects a society’s strong central values”. • If we analyze culture and society from the conflict perspective “Culture reflects a society’s dominant ideology”. • If we analyze culture and society from the interactionist perspective...
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...Yemen. Frist I am going to list the public holidays about China and later in my research I will list the holidays in Yemen Public holidays in China There are currently seven official public holidays in China. There was a major reform in 2008, abolishing the Labour Day Golden Week and adding three traditional Chinese holidays (Qingming Festival, Duanwu Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival). A notable feature of mainland Chinese holidays is that weekends are usually swapped with the weekdays next to the actual holiday to create a long vacation period. January 1 New Year 元旦 Sun 1-Tue 3 January[ 1st day of 1st lunar month Chinese New Year 春节 Sun 22-Sat 28 January] 5th solar term (April 4 or April 5) Qingming Festival 清明节 Mon 2-Wed 4 April May 1 Labor Day 劳动节 Sun 29 April - Tue 1 May 5th day of 5th lunar month Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 Sat June 23 15th day of 8th lunar month Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 Sun September 30 October 1 National Day 国庆节 Mon 1–Wed 3 October Transferred holidays In all these holidays, if the holiday lands on a weekend, the days will be reimbursed after the weekend. The Chinese New Year and National Day holidays are three days long. The week-long holidays on May (Labor) Day and National Day began in 2000, as a measure to increase and encourage holiday spending. The resulting seven-day holidays are called "Golden Weeks" (黄 金周), and have become peak seasons for travel and...
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...In Chinese thought, the world is populated by a vast number of spirits, both good and evil. Such spirits include nature demons, evil spirits or devils, and ghosts. Evil spirits are believed to avoid light and many rituals involving fire and light have developed, such as the use of bonfires, firecrackers, and torches. Evil spirits are also traditionally believed to travel in straight line, which explains many curvy roads throughout China. If a spirit is not kept happy, perhaps because it had a bad death, an improper burial or has no descendents to perform the proper rituals, it becomes a ghost (sometimes called a "hungry ghost," a term with Buddhist origins). Ghosts may attack human beings to prompt them to meet the ghosts' needs or at least to draw attention to their plight. Ghosts receive the most attentions during Ghost Month, the seventh month in the Chinese lunar year, and especially during the Ghost Festival on the fifteenth day. The Hungry Ghost Festival has its roots in the Buddhist festival Ullambana, and also in Daoist culture. In the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist festival Ullambana and its traditional festivities were mixed and celebrated on one day. Thus, the Ghost Festival has a special meaning for all Buddhists. The Chinese believe that the dead become ghosts who roam between Heaven and Earth on the day of their death. Spirits without descendants to make offerings to them are fed during the ghost festival, so that they may not cause trouble to the living. This...
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