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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Chinese noodles are very old food‚ which originated in China and it has a long history. Eastern Han Dynasty in China saved records that noodle’s history has more than nineteen hundred years. And then the earliest kind of noodles are found on October 14‚ 2002 in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. When scientists do Geological Survey‚ they found a bowl in a floodplain which is 3 meters under the ground floor‚ the bowl is upside down and it fitted with yellow noodles‚ the longest is 50 cm. Researchers
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Chinese seal carving was one of the four traditional arts of ancient China‚ along with painting‚ calligraphy‚ and poetry. Seal carving was an art of deep cultural roots of the Chinese generations. The first record of a seal in China was from 544 BC‚ during the Spring and Autumn period; right after Chinese ancestors could make potteries and owned properties. When the first dynasty was established‚ the emperor began to use seals. These seals were created for the purpose of making marks on people’s
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(Lansford 1). Every culture has its own myth that explains about the nature of that particular culture. The Chinese culture has been around for many centuries‚ its myths have accumulated into varies stories of gods and their culture. China is the world’s oldest continuous civilization (Cotterel 9). Evidence show the earliest Chinese civilization to be found around 1650 B.C. The beginnings of Chinese mythology‚ started around the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Influenced by alchemist ideas‚ Taoist and Buddhist
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from the different tastes to the different methods of cooking the food. However Chinese cuisine and American cuisine stand out the most because they are completely different and value different things. Chinese cuisine is a very versatile type of cuisine because there are many styles of Chinese food that make up the Chinese cuisine. These styles of Chinese food originate from the many provinces in China. Like the Chinese cuisine‚ American cuisine is also very diverse‚ but most of the cuisine is a combination
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new technology‚ desire to become an empire‚ and good economy. While all empires fall because their ruler dies‚ the enemy finds better technology‚ fighting themselves‚ natural disasters‚ and invasions. The rise of two great empires‚ (the Roman and Chinese Empires) in the first century showed great military advancement‚ good economic trade‚ and large territories. They fell because of the decline in economic trade‚ changing of populations‚
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CHINESE CIVILIZATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China Wikipedia: China http://library.thinkquest.org Thinkquest: Discovering China & Beauty: The Land of China http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/China/ Part I INTRODUCTION The land here is broad and diverse. Among this immense piece of earth‚ one can find both farmer and businessman; mountain and plain; drought and rainfall; wasteland and farmland. It is vast‚ it is multifaceted. And yet these collections of disparate
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A part of Chinese food Chinese food has a long history with more than 5‚000 years. Different area has different kind of cooking. Also‚ different style of cooking has different characteristic. Chinese food covers a lot of the delicious tastes from all over the country. First‚ Cantonese cuisine is delicious and attractive‚ which is always my favorite style of dishes. Cantonese cuisine’s characteristic is sweet‚ original and light. It lays importance on the food’s high freshness. (About) You can see
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Traditional Chinese Music V.S. Modern Chinese Music Traditional Chinese music and modern Chinese music have many differences. Here is a brief look at some of the differences. First‚ traditional Chinese music often uses traditional musical instruments such as erhu‚ flute‚ and drum and so on. Modern Chinese music uses piano‚ violin‚ guitar and many new musical instruments. Sometimes people use different instruments to create new music in order to give others special feelings. People play
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Why Chinese Mothers are superior Every parent wants to be proud of their children‚ to see them succeed in school‚ music‚ sports or whatever path they may choose. The professor and the author Amy Chua wrote the essay “Why Chinese mothers are superior”‚ where she tries to compare western parents to Chinese mothers and their different methods of raising children. Plenty of the people reading this essay may get the wrong idea and misunderstand‚ when Amy Chua tries to present Western parents as bad
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