CHINESE CULTURE

CHINESE CULTURE IS ONE OF THE OLDEST WORLD CULTURES.  IT HAS 56 DISTINCT ETHNIC GROUPS. THE HAN GROUP IS THE LARGEST.  MUCH OF THE IDENTITY WITHIN COMMUNITY HAS A DISTINGUISHED NAME FOR THE FAMILY

TRADITIONAL CULTURE COVERS LARGE AREAS OF REGIONS INTO DISTRICT SUBCULTURES.  THESE DISTINCTIONS GIVE RISE TO TO THE OLD CHINESE PROVERB MEANING "THE WIND VARIES WITHIN TEN LI, CUSTOMS VARY WITHIN A LI" .  

CHINESE MONARCHS HAVE BEEN THE RULER OF ALL DIFFERENT PERIODS OF HISTORY.  EACH PEROD IS ORGANIZED INTO A SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS.   THEY HAD THE MEN WRITE SCHOLARLY EXAMS TO DEMONSTRATE THERE MASTERY.  A FEMALE HISTORIAN OUTLINED 4 VIRTUES THAT WOMEN MUSE ABIDE TO.

CHINESE TAOIST SEXUAL PRACTICES ARE SOME OF THE RITUALS FOUND IN SOCIETY.  THE CHINESE BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION.  IN BUSINESS THE CONCEPT IS GUANI IS THE PRIMACY OVER RULES.  THEIR CALLIGRAPHY AND POETS WERERESPECTED AND PROMOTED THEIR CULTURE.  TODAY THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT DIALECTS AMONG DIFFERENT REGIONS.

BY THE 20TH CENTURY MILLIONS OF THESE FOLKS WERE ILLITERATE.  THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT DIALECTS AND PEOPLE CANNOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER FROM RELATED AREAS.

CHINESE RELIGION WAS ORIGINALLY ORIENTED TO WORSHIPPING THEIR SUPREME THEIR SUPREME GOD. THEIR ZHOU DYNASTY WAS ORIENTED TO WORSHIPING THE BROADER CONCEPT OF HEAVEN.  THEY USED DIVINATION TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS.  FOLKLORES HAVE HELPED FILL THE GAP FOR THINGS.  THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED.  THEY HAVE ANY DIETIES.  MANY OF THEIR STORIES HAVE BEEN PART OF THE TRADITIONAL HOLIDAYS. 

SOME FORTUNE TELLING RITUALS ARE IN USE TODAY AFTER 1000'S OF YEARS OF USE.  CHINESE MUSIC DATES TO ARTIFACTS OF A WELL DEVELOPED CULTURE AS EARLY AS THE ZHOW DYNASTY.  SOME OF THE OLDEST WRITTEN MUSIC DATES TO TO 1100 B.C. WHEN CONFUCIOUS LIVES.  THEIR INSTRUMENTS INCLUDE THE XUN, GUZHENG (A ZITHER), QURQIN, SHEN  AND XIAO, ERHU OIL FIDDLE, PIPAA AND OTHERS.

DIFFERENT ARTS HAVE SWAYED  THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHERS AND TEACHERS AND RELIGIOUS FOLKS.  THEIR ART INCLUDES FINE ART, FOLK ART, AND PERFORMANCE ART.  PORCELAIN POTTERY WAS AN EARLY ART FORM.  CHINESE PAINTINGS BECAME HIGHLY STYLIZED  AND WERE SPECIAL IN THE MING DYNASTY.  THEY PLAYED PERCUSSION MUSIC AS WELL AS STRINGED AND REED INSTRUMENTS.

CHINA IS THE MAIN BIRTH PLACE OF EASTERN MARTIAL ARTS.  THEY ARE CALLED KUNG FU.  CHINA HAS PRODUCED SOME WELL KNOWN MARTIAL ARTS.  THEY HAVE PRODUCED MANY MOVIES.

THE COLOR RED IS USUALLY RESERVED FOR THE EMPORER .  THROUGHOUT CENTURIES THE CLOTHING IS REFERRED TO AS HANFUU AND MANY OTHER STYLES.  THEY HAVE MANY SYMBOLS.  CHINESE ARCHITECTURE IS FOUND FROM OVER 2000 YEARS AGO. IT IS WELL KNOWN WITH CERTAIN FEATURES.  THEY FEATURE SYMMETRY AND IT IS SEEN IN PALACES AND FARMHOUSES.  GARDENS ARE SYMETRICAL.  THE PRINCIPAL HERE IS TO CRERATE FLOW AS NATURE EXISTS.  FENG SHUI HAS PLAYED A PART IN STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

CHINESE CUISINE COMES MAINLY FROM THE PRACTICE WHEN THE EMPORERS WOULD HAVE BANQUETS.  MANY PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN FOOD PREP PROCESS.  SOME OF THE HIGHEST  QUALITY RESTAURANTS STARTED NEAR THE DYNASTIC PERIODS.

CHINESE TEA CULTURE IS A WAY TO PREPARE TEA AND THE EQUIPMENT USED TO MAKE TEA IN CHINA.  CHINESE TEA CULTURE IS MORE THAN A CEREMONYT.  IT IS AN ART USED IN CHINESE MEDICINE AND CHINESE CUISINE.

THEY PLAY A NUMBER OF GAMESW AND PAST TIMES.  THE COMMON GAME IS MAH JONG AND DOMINOS, AND PAI GOW POKER.

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