CHINESE CULTURE

THE CHINESE CULTURE IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST CULTURE.  THEY HAVE 56 DISTINCT ETHNIC GROUPS AND HAN CHINESE ARE THE LARGEST GROUP.  THE HAN HAVE THE REGIONAL TRADITIONS.  EACH REGION  HAS THREE ANCESTRAL ITEMS.  THEY HAVE CHINESE PROVERBS  SUCH AS THE WIND.

EACH DISTRICT COVERS A LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND IS DIVIDED INTO SUBCULTURES.  ANCIENT CITIES HAVE SPECIFIC DISTRICTS.

DIFFERENT PERIODS HISTORY WERE ORGANIZED INTO HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM OF C;LASSES.  THE VALUES WERE FROM TAOISM AND CONFUCIANISM IS THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA AND WAS ENTRY INTO BUREAUCRACY.

EXAMINATIONS AND A CULTURE OF MERIT REMAIN VALUED IN CHINA TODAY.  DURING THE 20TH CENTURY THEY'RE EXPERIMENTING WITH  ALL NEW SYSTEMS FOR ORGANIZATIONS.  THEY HAVE MANY DIALECTS IN REGIONS.

CHINESE RELIGION WORSHIPS A SUPREME GOD.  SHANG DI IN VARIOUS DYNASTIES IS REVELED.  MUCH OF THEIR CULTURE WAS BASED ON THE NOTION THAT A SPIRITUAL WORLD EXISTS.  THEY HAVE A BLURRED LINE BETWEEN MYTH, RELIGION AND OTHER PHENOMENON.  THEY HAVE MANY DEITIES - LIKE BUDDHA.  THEY HAVE OTHER CO0NVEPTS.  ALONG WITH THE BELIEF THAT THERE IS SOMETHING HOLY AND SOMETHING EVIL.   SOME FORTUNE TELLING RITUALS ARE IN USE TODAY AFTER 1000'S OF YEARS.  THE ERA OF ZHOU DYNASTY IS OFTEN PART OF CHINESE CULTURAL DYNASTY.

THEY HAVE A WRITTEN  MANY INTELLECTUAL STUDIES COVERED WITH  SUBJECTS SUCH AS ASTROLOGY, CALENDERS, CONSTELLATIONS AND POETRY. CHINESE CONCEPTS SUCH AS YIN AND YANG AND PILLARS OF DESTINY IN RELATION WERE HEAVEN AND EARTH.  THEY WERE   THEORIZED IN DYNAMIC PERIODS.
BY THE 20TH CENTURY MILLIONS HERE WERE ILLITERATE.  TODAY THEY HAVE MANY DIFFERENT DIALECTS AMONG THE REGION.  PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS REGIONS DON'T UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER.

CHINESE MUSIC DATES BACK TO WHEN THEIR CIVILIZATION STARTED.  ARTIFACTS OF WELL DOCUMENTED CHINESE MUSIC WAS FOR ZHOU DYNASTY 1122 B.C.  THEY USED MANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS INTEGRAL TO CHINESE CULTURE. SUCH AS THE OCARINA, A CERAMIC OR BONE INSTRUMENT FOR WIND.  ZITHER WITH A MOVABLE BRIDGE, A FLUTE, FIDDLE, AND MANY OTHERS.

THIS SOCIETY HAD MANY MARTIAL ARTS.  THEY ARE GIVEN THE NAME KUNG FU.  THESE ARTS STARTED AFTER SURVIVAL PURPOSES, MORE THAN ART.  SOME HAVE CHANGED AND OTHERS HAVE NOT.  THERE ARE SOME FAMOUS MARTIAL ARTISTS.

DIFFERENT CLASSES HAD VARIOUS CLOTHES- YELLOW OR RED AND IT IS RESERVED FOR THE EMPEROR OR HIGH SOCIAL CLASSES.  MANY SYMBOLS AS THE PHOENIX WERE DECORATIVE AS WELL AS ECONOMIC.  DURING THE QING DYNASTY THERE WAS A  DRAMATIC SHIFT IN CLOTHING OCCURRED.  THEY USE MANY SYMBOLS SUCH AS A PHOENIX.

THEIR ARCHITECTURE IS OVER 2000 YEARS OLD.  IT HAS BEEN A HALLMARK OF THEIR CULTURE.  THEY LIKE SYMMETRY AND A SENSE OF GREATNESS TO THEIR PALACES.

CHINESE FOOD COMES FROM THE PRACTICE OF THE DYNASTIC PERIOD.  EMPERORS HOSTED 100 DISHES PER MEAL.  MANY STAFF AND CONCUBINES DID FOOD PREP.  THEY  MADE SUZHOU WITH RICE, SHRIMP, EGGPLANT, FERMENTED TOFU, VEGI STIR FRY, VEGETABLE DUCK WITH MEAT BAMBOO.

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