Di Gao ELCB 0900 Ken B 1st Major assignment 1st Draft 10/8/2014 Chinese Values and Assumptions Have you ever been to China? What do you feel about that ancient country? I come from China and now I am living in the United States. Traveling to a foreign country is an interesting experience because I can learn different cultures. From my experiences travelling in the US‚ I have learned that the culture of different nations provides insight not only into aspects of the culture itself‚ but also into
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Ancient Ritual Research Paper Ancient rituals have been around since prehistoric time. They have been a very important part of human life and were performed with the intention of improving the universe itself. Rituals are also a form of social bonding that contains spiritual meanings. Cultures have different rituals to celebrate important events. These rituals may be different in the sense that the rituals are performed differently but they both share the same idea which is to celebrate and become
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The ancient Chinese culture was a male dominant society. Women were always treated beneath men because of the teachings of Confucius. Confucius referred to women as unworthy and incapable of a literary education. Women were in a position of servitude from when they were born to when they could no longer serve their man because of old age. Women were considered as men’s property. If women were to disrespect the husband‚ without a doubt‚ she would be killed. A historical female figure in
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Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s
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APSS112 Introduction to Sociology Guidelines of Individual Paper TOPIC – “Sociological Imagination of Your Life Experience” Reflect upon your life experience‚ write a reflection paper to consider: What social forces/ historical event have impacted your life? With restriction on the length of your paper‚ it is not necessary to write a review from every part of your whole life. But instead‚ you can take up some of important part(s) of your life as reflection. Since it is a reflective essay
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one’s whereabouts should always be made known” - Analects‚ Book II: Li Ren 19 The idea of filial piety has always remained as a significant part of Chinese tradition from ancient China and even till today’s times. It stands not only as a mere concept but more so‚ something that was an “absolute‚ metaphysical entity‚ something so exalted in (ancient Chinese’s) minds” (Holzman‚ 1998). Perhaps the idea of filial piety can be traced back to Confucius‚ who emphasized the importance of family ties (Stole
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Ancient Chamorro Where did the Ancient Chamorros come from? The Chamorro race has never been definitively proven‚ the original inhabitants of Guam are believed to have been of Indo-Malaya descent originating from Southeast Asia as early as 2‚000 BC‚ and having linguistic and cultural similarities to Malaysia‚ Indonesia and the Philippines. Where did the word "Chamorro" come from? Chamorro comes from the native words "chamorri’ or "chamoli" words which signify "NOBLE". Spanish dictionaries
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Title: Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi‚ ca. 1310 By: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese‚ 1254–1322) Type: Handscroll‚ ink on paper Size: 9 5/8 x 46 1/8 in. (24.4 x 117 cm) The artist of this calligraphy scroll‚ Zhao Mengfu‚ was highly praised by the Yuan emperor Renzong as unrivaled traditional Chinese polymath (for a lack of a better word). It is said that the emperor admired him for possessing the following seven outstanding qualities: wide learning‚ Song royal ancestry‚ elegant and charismatic
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Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt Ancient systems of writing in the Middle East arose when people needed a method for remembering important information. In both Ancient Iraq and Ancient Egypt each of the stages of writing‚ from pictograms to ideograms to phonetograms‚ evolved as a response to the need to express more complex ideas. Satisfaction of this need gave us the two most famous forms of ancient writing‚ cuneiform from ancient Iraq‚ and hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt
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Chinese Traditions Values for one society may seem strange to another society‚ but nonetheless‚ they are important to that society. For instance‚ the painful and debilitating Chinese tradition of foot binding‚ as bizarre as it may seem to our culture‚ to the Chinese people‚ it was the esoteric essence of pure beauty and signified status within the family structure‚ allowing young women with lotus feet better opportunities for marriage with well-to-do families. Traditional Chinese courtyard life
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