Celebration of Culture in China

China has a culture fill with many tradition, dances,and food. Let's begin with the chinese writing. The writing are known as hanzi. It began as pictures representing different thing like fishes, men, or other things. They had changed over time to represent sounds that is used in their language.

Then come the religion, an essential part of the chinese culture. Some of the religion they follow are budism, taoism, confucianism, buddhism, islam, and christianity. Though the most common are taoism, confucianism, and buddhism. This  is because it has been an essential element in the past to be in this religions and it has become something important in the chinese culture.

Next, about the tradition the chinese there is something that everybody likes to see and be in. This is the Chiese New Year, or Spring Festival. A celebration that is not in the same time as the american New Year, this year is in Febuary 11. But like our New Year they use lots of fireworks, food, and happiness in the air. We are in the rabbits year and becuase of this the chinese see this year as a negative year. Each years represent and animal. For example,2010 Tiger, 2011 Rabbit ,2012 Dragon ,2013 Snake, 2014 Horse ,2015 Sheep, 2016 Monkey ,2017 Rooster, 2018 Dog, 2019 Pig, 2020 Rat, and 2021 Ox.

 

What we call as chinese cooking is actually oriental food or Asian food. There are many style of "chinese" food, like:Cantonese-mild, stir fried and the origin of Dim Sum,Peking - mild, not spicy, a bit oily ,Szechuan and Hunan- spicy with liberal amounts of garlic and onions, and Shanghanese- mild, very oily and somewhat bland. It includes lots of seafood due to proximity to ocean.

Now heres a video of the chinese new year of 2007

In the end china has much to give in its culture and o travel to it will can be a great experience.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm

http://www.sacu.org/religion.html

http://www.chinaunique.com/educate/culture.htm