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Chinese Wedding Traditions – Engagement
In the past, engagements were arranged by parents and matchmakers. The engagement consisted of 'six courtesies'.
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[Customs]
Holiday Taboos
It is a Chinese taboo to share stories about death and dying and ghost stories during special occasions and holidays.
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[Customs]
Taboos in Gift-Giving
Since good things are believed to come in pairs, gifts given in pairs (except four) are best.
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Taboos in Food
Young children should not eat chicken feet as it is believed they might not be able to write well when they start school.
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Taboos At Work
Shopkeepers may opt not to read a book at work because book (書, shū) sounds like lose (輸, shū).
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Numbers Taboos
According to Chinese sayings, good things come in pairs.
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Religion in China
Religious observance in China is on the rise.
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[Customs]
The Manchus
The Manchus offer a cautionary example of the importance of language as a means of preserving a people's heritage.
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[Customs]
Tibetans
Like Mongolia, Tibet was the center of a vast empire.
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The Naxi
There are fewer than 300,000 Naxi people, most living in Yunnan province in China's southwest.
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Mongols
Western images of Mongols often depict horse-riding nomads, living in yurts, or tents, and following their herds of sheep, horses, and cattle over the grassy plains of central Asia.
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[Customs]
Ethnic Minorities in China
An essay on some of China's 56 ethnic minority groups.
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[Customs]
Chinese Customs and celebrations
The largest festival — also called the Spring Festival — marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year.
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[Customs]
Chinese Art
Chinese art is greatly influenced by the country’s rich spiritual and mystical history.
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[Food]
Chinese Food
Like other aspects of Chinese life, cuisine is heavily influenced by geography and ethnic diversity.
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[Food]
Chinese Eating Culture
Chinese people love to eat and China boasts one of the world's greatest and most varied cuisines.
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[Food]
Chinese Duck Dishes
In China, duck is always considered to be a sumptuous dish on a dining table at a meal. The nutritious value of duck is similar to that of chicken. In the same way as chicken, nearly every part o
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[Food]
Popular Chicken Dishes
Chicken can be cooked in many different ways, including deep-frying, steaming, roasting, stewing, and boiling.
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[Food]
Chinese Chicken Dishes
Chicken is tender, delicious, rich in nutritional value, and has nourishing effects on health.
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Popular Chinese Beef Dishes
There are many ways to cook beef. It can be cooked by stir-frying, baking, stewing, steaming, and boiling.