For other traditions of celebrating lunar new year‚ see Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year Lion dancers at Historic Chinatown Gate‚ Chinese New Year‚ Hing Hay Park‚ Seattle‚ Washington (February 3‚ 2011) Also called Lunar New Year‚ Spring Festival‚ New Year Observed by Chinese communities worldwide[1] Type Cultural‚ Religious (Buddhist‚ Taoist‚ Confucian) Significance The first day of the Chinese calendar (lunisolar calendar) 2012 date Monday‚ January 23‚ Dragon 2013 date Sunday‚ February
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troops that involved the use of horned helmets called Horn Butting or Jiao Di. Eventually‚ Jiao Di was improved upon to include joint locks‚ strikes‚ and blocks and even became a sport during the Qin Dynasty. It is also important to know that the Chinese martial arts have held philosophical and spiritual significance within the culture. It grew alongside the ideas of Confucianism and Taoism during the Zhou Dynasty. For example‚ the Taoist concept of Ying and Yang‚ the universal opposites‚ ended up
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We commonly call Chinese martial art’s kung-fu but literally that means hard work for those that doesn’t know. The term kung-fu was made popular during the Bruce Lee era in which the westerners were first exposed to his amazing fighting abilities. The correct terms for Chinese martial arts are either wushu‚ which means martial art‚ or koushu‚ which translates to national or military art. The first written history of Chinese martial arts comes from the reign of Huangdi‚ the Yellow Emperor of the
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Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The new year begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar‚ which usually falls in February‚ and the festivities continue for 15 days. At Chinese New Year celebrations‚ people wear red clothes‚ give children “lucky money” in red envelopes and set off firecrackers. Red symbolizes fire‚ which the Chinese believe drives away bad luck. Family members gather at each other’s homes for extravagant
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Traditional Chinese Medicine “Traditional Chinese medicine is a wide range of medicine practices sharing common concepts. It has been developed in China and is based on a tradition of more than 2‚000 years. Various forms of herbal medicine‚ acupuncture‚ massage exercise‚ and dietary therapies are included.”(From Wikipedia) Traditional Chinese medicine has been widely acknowledged and is different from modern medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine develops slowly now. The model of thinking
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The Chinese Civil was fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Chinese Communist Party and the governing Chinese National Party or Kuomintang. The two parties began initially by working together during the Northern Expedition‚ which were a Kuomintang military campaign unifying communists and nationalists from 1926 to 1928. The death of the revolutionary republican leader of the Kuomintang‚ Sun Yat sen‚ however‚ caused power struggle between the two opposing parties. There were multiple
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Aixuan Li 03/29/2012 Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China‚ it is known as "Spring Festival." People celebrate this day by enjoy the Dragon dances‚ Lion dances‚ fireworks‚ family gathering‚ family meal‚ visiting friends and relatives ‚ giving red envelopes‚ and decorating with duilian(usually represented as two lines of poems that match together to wish people good luck and was hung on the wall of the front
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To inform. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of an aspect of Chinese culture‚ which is is traditional Chinese medicine. Thesis: Traditional Chinese medicine is found in nearly all countries today‚ which I believe would be the result of intercultural communication. INTRODUCTION I. Hello! For my presentation‚ I am going to talk about a certain aspect of Chinese culture‚ which is traditional Chinese medicine. A. TCM‚ for short‚ is a practice still used in modern
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Every Chinese person knows what the Long March was‚ because it was an important part of Chinese history. Most Chinese people think that the Long March was successful during the second Chinese Civil War. In my opinion‚ I think the Long March was also unsuccessful. It was successful‚ because the Red Army of the Communist Party of China was not eliminated by the army of the Chinese Nationalist Party. It was unsuccessful‚ because it was the war between the Red Army and the National Revolutionary Army
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Research Paper 1 – Physical Geography Review on the Conservation Plan of the Chinese White Dolphins in Hong Kong Periodically‚ all government needs to balance between economic and environmental development. Chinese White Dolphin‚ being one of the marine biodiversity indicators‚ has been under international concern in the 1990s. Being one of the major habitats of the Chinese White Dolphin‚ the seabed near Northern Lantau was under reclamation for the Chek Lap Kok Airport construction‚ which resulted
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