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Chinese Culture: Customs and Traditions The Chinese culture is super fascinating. They have so many different styles of customs and traditions that differ from the American culture. Their history of foot binding goes a long way, along with the Chinese language. There are so many varieties of dialects in China. Multiple religions have traveled over from numerous countries to China. Traditional Chinese celebrations are all unique in their own way. All the holidays hold a special significance to their country. The Chinese culture has given inspiration to many others. Foot binding is the custom of wrapping a girl’s feet tightly in strips of cloth to stunt the growth of feet. It was very common in China, because it was considered pretty and …show more content…

The Chinese New Year is the most popular and important festival of the year. It is also known as the Spring Festival and is celebrated for 16 days. It is a time for family reunions and big dinners. Red envelopes are handed out from elders to younger kids as a sign of the new year. Other traditions are multiple recreational activities like lion dances and lantern dances. Another popular holiday is the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. People go outside that evening to look at the moon and send up flying lanterns filled with wishes to the sky. Friends and family get together to admire the multi colored lanterns. Additionally, the Mid-Autumn Festival is another important holiday filled with reunion and peace. It is a harvest festival and people eat mooncakes while looking at the full moon. All the holidays in China are full of color and …show more content…

More than 1.3 billion people speak at least one form of Chinese. The Chinese language has over 50,000 characters, but you only need 2,000 to carry a normal conversation. There are two different types of Chinese which are simplified and traditional. The simplified version was developed in early 1950. Nowadays, most people use the simplified version as it is less complicated than the traditional. However, some people prefer to use the traditional version since its strokes are more beautiful on scripts and scrolls. Mandarin is the official national language in China. There are over 200 dialects, and each is spoken depending on where you live. Each dialect uses a distinguishing tone where the pitch of syllables in words are spoken differently. Sometimes people use pinyin, which is the official romanization of Chinese. The Chinese language has shaped many others, even the Korean and Japanese language is derived from

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According to the article “The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China”, the writer claims that there is no neutral knowledge about footbinding because most footbinding in the past was colored by China’s search for a male identity under the harm of imperialism. The act of footbinding not only kept women in a hobbled and subservient domestic, but also rendered women to satisfy certain abnormal erotic fantasies of men. The article also talks about when and why footbinding appeared in China. It mentions that footbinding is kind of the signal of genteel status in early ancient time, and was promoted in the late Ming and prohibited during early Qing period. Footbinding was looked as an expression of Chinese

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Kai-Li Liao Chinese foot binding is a practice for girls in China as an objective to restrict the growth of the feet, and it is to be believed that women with smaller feet are more beautiful that the ones with bigger feet. Examples are the women with feet size that measure 3 inches perfectly are called lotus of the gold and 4 inches considered silver lotus and the ones exceeding 4 inches are called iron lotus. The very start of Chinese foot binding was during the Sung dynasty (960-1279 A.D) when a Chinese emperor favored a concubine that binds her foot so she can dance ballet on her toes and sooner or later this practice became very fashionable and spread throughout China. Although Chinese traditional foot binding has lasted for

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