From 10th to 30th September 2007 the Women’s World Cup in soccer will take place in the Republic of China for the second time. Apart from the host, China, the world champion Germany is the only team which has been seeded. On 10th September Germany will play against Argentina in the opening match in Shanghai, where the final game will also be played.
The story of the Chinese flag’s origin began in July 1949 when the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) placed an ad in the newspapers stating that entries for the design of China’s flag were being accepted and that all people were invited to submit their entries. Over 3,000 entries were received and that number was soon narrowed down to 38 possibilities for the CPPCC committee to decide from. And eventually, a design by Zeng Liansong was chosen as the flag design for the People’s Republic of China.
From the 21st century B.C. untill 1911, China was a monarchy. Many kings and emperors ruled the country within different dynasties until the Republic of China took over. Here you will find a list showing all of the Chinese dynasties listed in chronological order.
Short introduction to the chinese dynasties.
The Xia dynasty has never been definitively proven historically, although excavations have revealed signs of a ruling dynasty dating back to the 21st century B.C.
The Chinese spoken language consists of numerous dialects which differ from each other so much that Chinese from Beijing can hardly communicate with an inhabitant of Guangzhou in south China. The unifying element of the Chinese cultural area is not the Chinese language but the Chinese script.
Read everything about chinese characters and their development.
How many chinese characters exist? How to use a Chinese dictionary? How to write Chinese characters on the computer . Chinese characters and their prevalence in Asia.
Calligraphy literally means “good writing”. However, Chinese calligraphy cannot be defined as just “writing” Chinese characters. Neither can it be described as a way of making Chinese characters look “more beautiful”. These bad assumptions are often made. The most important aspect of it is, that it is an emotional form of art, as it carries the thoughts and feelings of the artist.
Often we wonder seeing Chinese people. Their life style is completely different to what we are used to. However, if we want to travel the country or even want to live in a Chinese city we should try to understand and accept our hosts’ behaviour. Therefore it might help a lot to understand the Chinese Philosophy. Here you can read about Confucius, the Daoism, and the Legalism.
February 7, 2008- Sparks of fireworks at midnight had ushered in the year of the rat in the Chinese lunar calendar. More than a billion people in China and overseas Chinese communities held large celebrations, both at home and in the streets. New Year’s Day is a time when a person makes resolutions for the coming year. Loved ones who have journeyed in distant places return to their hometowns to be with the ones they care about the most, their families.
The Chinese New Year’s Day celebrations depend on the Chinese traditional country almanac and take place between the 20th and 21st February each year. It starts with the new moon of the year’s first month. Although in China the Gregorian calendar has finally become officially valid, the New Years Day is still celebrated today in accordance to the moon calendar and done in traditional ways.
During the Chinese Spring Festival, there are officially three holidays; many Chinese extend this vacation to one week. The Chinese New Year is a great family feast in China. The preparations already start long before the actual feast, making preparations for traveling and decorating the houses - red is the dominating color in China during this time. Lucky charms are hanged up. They look like banners made from paper and are decorated with luck-bringing signs and proverbs.
In China the politics have undergone numerous changes and it wasn't until Deng Xiaoping's introduction of reform and opening-up policies, as well as the economic revival, that the western countries' hope for the democratization of China was awakened.
Chinese medicine is a complex conglomeration of teachings, which took their beginnings in Far East ca. 10.000 years ago, and which since then continuously developed further. The essentials of Chinese medicine were laid down in writing for the first time around 2000 BC.
China’s centuries old history has evolved many unique pictures which exude a particular harmony and beauty and give the observer the opportunity to feel himself drawn into the picure and forget all the worries and unneccessary cravings the materialistic world nowadays forces on one. The exceptional peacefulness of China’s pictures is induced by the artists choice of motif.
In these days there are numerous Western people coming to China, to either study at a Chinese university, work for a Western or Chinese company, do an internship or simply travel. It is usually only a matter of time until a Western man has a date with a Chinese woman and vice versa in China.
There are certain things you should get to know when going to China and one of them is Chinese food. In China’s capital Beijing there are many ways to satisfy ones craving for whatever kind of food. You can enjoy dishes from all over the world, no matter what you want, you can definitely find it in Beijing.
China has an overwhelming variety of fruit and one of the Chinese most favourite ones are dates. According to Chinese nutrition fruit and basically almost every other nutriment have a certain function and influence on the human body’s health. Dates in China are usually classified as natural and healthy ‘green’ food.
