Chinese New Year Fun Facts! In ancient times‚ Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came and Buddha named a year after each one. People born during the year of the snake are wise‚ charming‚ generous‚ and smart. Red‚ the color of Chinese New Year‚ symbolizes fire which drives away bad luck. Long ago‚ people in China lit bamboo stalks‚ believing that the crackling flames would frighten evil spirits. Tangerines symbolize luck and prosperity. The traditional
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Sports and Chinese Society (Spring 2014) – Second Essay CHAN Chun Ho (UID: 3035071486) Name: CHAN Chun Ho UID: 3035071486 Email: gy9402@hku.hk Tutorial group: Friday 14.30 Mao Zedong once famously declared: women can hold up half of the Sky. In China’s competitive sports arena‚ do Chinese women hold more than half of the sky? Introduction The late Chairman Mao Zedong famously coined that “women hold up half the sky”‚ recognising the importance of female to the development of the Chinese society
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Learning difficulties from Chinese and American culture Question 1 Different culture of East and West can cause problems in each other. American culture trends to individualism. They need for more privacy and personal space. They do not independent of other people. On the contrary‚ Chinese culture trends to collectivism. They need to more close physical contact and close personal relationship or friendship. They concern about other people live for building up a close relationship. Therefore
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Mass executions landlords and other rightists‚ more than 1 million likely killed. • Dec 10‚ 1949: Communists take Chiangdu which was last KMT stronghold. Chiang Kai Shek flees to Taiwan. • 1927 was a cataclysmic year for everyone involved in the Chinese Revolution. Mao and his communist cohorts were involved in the uprisings in southern China. • 1937 - Mao published "On Contradiction" and "On Practice"‚ revolutionary tracts • Successes - Survival and success of the CCP - Attracted followers
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Aesthetic differences between Chinese and Western Poetry —critics on Xu Yuanchong’s Chinese poetry translation 1 Introduction Nowadays in China‚ there are mainly two kinds of different opinions on translating classical Chinese poems. On one side‚ Xu Yuanzhong‚ as a representative，hold that classical Chinese poems should be translated in the form of poems(rhymed verse translation). Xu Yuanzhong put forward the Theory of Three Beauties and the Theory of Rivalry. On the other side‚ scholars such as
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western idea of medical treatment with Ch’i and Chinese healing. Western medical treatment is tremendously different from Chinese medical treatment isn several ways. First of all‚ the Chinese use inductive and synthetic methods‚ while western medicine uses reductive and analytical methods. This can be seen in how the Chinese understand and learn medicine. Instead of solving everything with evidence and scientifical reason like western doctors‚ the Chinese use experience and cures that seem to work for
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Research Paper When I started think about my senior project I knew that my main idea should be cooking. I had few more ideas‚ but cooking come up the most. After few days of research I created a plan to succeed in my senior project. Harriet Van Horne‚ an American newspaper columnist and film/television critic‚ once said: “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” With it in mind I started working on my World cook book‚ and as expected it was complicated but doable
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American and Chinese university life Did Chinese students think about American students’ life in the university? Is American university life same as Chinese? America is good at technology‚ education‚ etc. It was reported that many of the most famous universities are in America. So many Chinese teachers visited America‚ learning their experience. They found American and Chinese university life are similar in some ways‚ whereas more differences between them because of the culture differences. When
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Comparison of English and Chinese Family Names Hongmei Zhu School of Foreign languages‚ Henan University of Technology Lotus Street‚ Hi-Tech Development Zone‚ Zhengzhou 450001‚ Henan‚ China Tel: 86-371-6775-6797 E-mail: zhuhongmei@haut.edu Abstract The family names of humans are formed and used in the long process of the course of history and the development of society. Family names‚ being a part of culture‚ are closely related to history and culture. English and Chinese names are different in their
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Differences between Chinese and American food culture The histories‚ boundaries‚ population‚ religions‚ politics‚ folks‚ economy of America and China are not the same‚ so the food culture of the two countries are not the same. Chinese culture starts from 1‚700‚000 years ago. When someone says something about Chinese food culture‚ they must praise the color‚ taste‚ smell‚ shape of the Chinese dish and the types of the dish. Most of people in China are used to have rice and wheat as their
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