tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66751481648861667382024-03-04T21:42:25.882-08:00All About Chinajordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-79002153193322850962011-07-07T09:43:00.000-07:002011-07-07T09:45:33.239-07:00Shanghai In Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
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The principle of these extraordinary fortifications goes back to the Chunqiu period (722-481 BC) and to the Warring States period (453-221 BC).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">The construction of certain walls can be explained by feudal conflicts, such as that built by the Wei in 408 BC to defend their kingdom against the Qin. Its vestiges, conserved in the centre of China, antedate by many years the walls built by the Kingdoms of Qin, Zhao and Yan against the northern barbarians around 300 BC. Beginning in 220 BC, Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Empire of the Ten Thousand Generations, undertook to restore and link up the separate sections of the Great Wall which had been built in the 3rd century BC, or perhaps even earlier, and which stretched from the region of the Ordos to Manchuria.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Towards the west, he had extended the fortifications, the first cohesive defence system of which significant vestiges still remain in the valley of the Huanghe all the way to Lanzhou shortly before the accession of the Han dynasty (206 BC). During their reign the Great Wall was extended even further, and under the emperor Wudi (140-87 BC) it spanned approximately 6,000 km between Dunhuang in the west and the Bohai Sea in the east. The danger of incursion along the northern Chinese border by the federated Mongols, Turks and Tunguz of the Empire of the Xiongnu, the first empire of the steppes, made a defence policy more necessary than ever. After the downfall of the Han dynasty (AD 220), the Great Wall entered its medieval phase. Construction and maintenance works were halted; China at that time enjoyed such great military power that the need for a defence policy was no longer felt.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">It was the Ming Emperors (1368-1644) who, after the long period of conflict that ended with the expulsion of the Mongols, revived the tradition begun by Qin Shi Huang. During the Ming dynasty, 5,650 km of wall were built. To defend the northern frontier, the Wall was divided into nine Zhen, military districts rather than garrisons. At strategic points, fortresses were built to defend the towns, passes, or fords. The passageways running along the top of the wall made it possible to move troops rapidly and for imperial couriers to travel. Two symbolic monuments still proudly stand at either end of the wall - the First Door under Heaven at Shanhaiguan, located at the wall's eastern end, and the Last Door under Heaven at Jiayuguan, which, as part of the fortress entirely restored after 1949, marks its north-western end.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">This complex and diachronic cultural property is an outstanding and unique example of a military architectural ensemble which served a single strategic purpose for 2,000 years, but whose construction history illustrates successive advances in defence techniques and adaptation to changing political contexts. The purpose of The Great Wall was to protect China from outside aggression, but also to preserve its culture from the customs of foreign barbarians. Because its construction implied suffering, it is one of the essential references in Chinese literature.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">The Great Wall of the Ming is, not only because of the ambitious character of the undertaking but also the perfection of its construction, a masterpiece. The wall constitutes, on the vast scale of a continent, a perfect example of architecture integrated into the landscape. During the Chunqiu period, the Chinese imposed their models of construction and organization of space in building the defence works along the northern frontier. The spread of Sinicism was accentuated by the population transfers necessitated by the Great Wall.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">That the great walls bear exceptional testimony to the civilizations of ancient China is illustrated as much by the tamped-earth sections of fortifications dating from the Western Han that are conserved in Gansu Province as by the admirable and universally acclaimed masonry of the Ming period.</div>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-24774744786423178372011-07-07T09:31:00.000-07:002011-07-07T09:32:04.723-07:00Click On the advertisement to see the picture<img alt="0" height="192" src="http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/images/landing.jpg" width="400" />jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-10742210106138445602011-07-07T08:55:00.001-07:002011-07-07T08:55:34.706-07:00China Means Business - But What Kind of Business - Want to Learn More?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you are in business for yourself or run a company, shouldn't you be reading more about China? After all it is now the second-largest economy in the world now, and it seems to be growing and it should keep on growing for quite a while. There are far too many people who are too willing to label China in a single sentence, and think they understand what China is all about - can you imagine trying to describe the USA in one-sentence? It is for this reason that I like to recommend a very good book that I think you should read, the name of the book is;</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>"China * INC - <em>How the Rise of the Next Super Power Challenges America and the World</em>,"</strong> by Ted C. Fishman, Scribner Publishing, a Simon Schuster Company - MacMillian Licensed, New York, NY, 2005. (pp 342), ISBN: 0-743-5752-9.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This book is extremely eye-opening and very well written, the author writes for the New York Times Magazine, Money, Worth, USA Today, Business 2.0, and also was a trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. His book takes us from Communist China to Capitalist Super Power, and talks about how it is expanding at roughly three-times the US growth rate, (approximately 10% year-over-year), and how 300 million peasant farmers left their work in agriculture to work in factories. This was the largest migration in human history from rural China to the Guangdong Province and other factory areas.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is estimated that this cost 2.9 million jobs in manufacturing in the United States. Speaking of which I don't want to cut into Mr. Fishman's excellent book here, but I would like to recommend another very good reading;</div><span><br />
</span>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-87116241099240319542011-07-07T04:28:00.000-07:002011-07-07T04:29:41.869-07:00Chinese Horoscopes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
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<div class="caption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When I finally came apon this snowshoe hare to photograph I was so happy to see it had the perfect den in the hollow of this old stump. It just looked like so much like a story book cover that I totally loved the shot.</div></div><div class="credit" style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.875em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Photograph by Darrell Abolit, My Shot</div></div></div><div class="subsection" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 13px;"><div class="article_body" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 3760px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 610px;"><div class="article_text" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chinese tradition says a different animal represents each new year. Which is yours?<br />
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According to the Chinese calendar, the year you were born may determine your personality. Every year is represented by an animal, and legend has it that people born under that animal have certain personality traits. So just for fun, find your birth year and that year's animal, and see what some people believe it says about you. Do the same for your friends, parents, relatives, and teachers.<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">2011: The Year of the </strong><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Rabbit</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Rabbits normally give birth to about six babies at once and often live in groups. Their long ears help them cool off by lowering the temperature of the blood that circulates through them.<br />
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Born a Rabbit?<br />
Well-liked and popular, you have a large circle of family and friends. You are very protective of them, and they protect you back. You tend to keep your cool and avoid conflicts.<br />
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Other Rabbit Years:<br />
1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Dragon</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
The mythical dragon is a symbol of power and good fortune in Chinese culture. One of the most popular figures in Chinese art, the dragon is believed to be a combination of nine animals, including a frog, a tiger, an eagle, and a fish.<br />
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Born a Dragon?<br />
You go out of your way to help your friends, who often seek you out for advice. Your outgoing personality helps you get along with many types of people.<br />
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Other Dragon Years:<br />
1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Snake</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Snakes have great instincts. Some "play dead" to fool predators, and most sense prey by detecting ground vibrations. They can take more than an hour to swallow a meal, and they become inactive for up to two weeks before they shed their skin.<br />
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Born a Snake?<br />
You rely on your instincts before asking others their opinions. At times you want to take a break from the action. It's not that you're lazy—sometimes you just like to think.<br />
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Other Snake Years:<br />
1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Horse</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
A horse sleeps only about three hours a day. Intelligent, most can sense nervousness in people.<br />
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Born a Horse?<br />
You have loads of energy and love adventure. You take charge and understand people, so you know how to work a crowd.<br />
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Other Horse Years:<br />
1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Sheep</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Timid sheep graze in flocks to guard against predators. Most are raised for their wool.<br />
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At your best when people who admire you flock to your side, you stick by your friends. You are artistic, creative, and like to look good.<br />
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Other Sheep Years:<br />
1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Monkey</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Social and playful, monkeys show affection and friendship by picking bugs and dirt out of each other's fur. These animals use their hands and feet to grip objects and climb trees. Some even have tails that can grab items as small as peanuts.<br />
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Born a Monkey?<br />
Swinging from one group of friends to another, you love to have a good time. You like to entertain your friends by showing off your talents, and they appreciate your cleverness and sense of humor.<br />
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Other Monkey Years:<br />
1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Rooster</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
The rooster's loud cock-a-doodle-doo attracts females and warns other males to stay away. The red comb on his head may help other roosters identify him, and it also sets him apart from other bird species.<br />
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Born a Rooster?<br />
You are practical and resourceful, and you use what you have to succeed without taking a lot of risks. A hard worker, you say what's on your mind and have a sense of style that sets you apart.<br />
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Other Rooster Years:<br />
1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Dog</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
A dog's supersensitive ears can hear a noise about 100 yards (91.44 meters) away that a person couldn't hear more than 25 yards (22.86 meters) away. Its strong sense of smell helps it do things like find lost people or sniff out bad guys.<br />
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Born a Dog?<br />
You're a great listener who can keep a secret. Loyal to your friends, you have a keen sense of right and wrong and stick to what you believe in.<br />
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Other Dog Years:<br />
1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Pig</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Domesticated pigs have been helping humans for about 9,000 years. Incredibly intelligent, a pig shows its smarts by rolling in mud and sticking its snout in dirt. Why? The mud keeps it cool, and rooting in the dirt provides important vitamins.<br />
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Born a Pig?<br />
Smart and caring, you live to help other people. You have great taste and love to wallow in the nicer things in life.<br />
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Other Pig Years:<br />
1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Rats</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Most rats are highly adaptable. They can live just about anywhere and eat just about anything. Before brown rats leave their underground burrows, these clever creatures send one rat ahead to make sure danger isn't lurking outside.<br />
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Born a Rat?<br />
You welcome challenges and enjoy learning about new things. Funny and smart, you are generous and will protect your pack of friends.<br />
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Other Rat Years:<br />
1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Oxen</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
Oxen have been known to pull loads of 11,284 pounds (5,118 kilograms). People value their strength as well as their work ethic. An ox's horns can grow to be more than 20 inches (51 centimeters) long.<br />
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Born an Ox?<br />
You approach projects in a step-by-step manner, wanting to do things right the first time. Shy but dependable, you are caring and trustworthy and never lose sight of your goal.<br />
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Other Ox Years:</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021<br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Tiger</strong><br />
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The Real Thing:<br />
The largest of the big cats, tigers hunt alone. They secretly stalk prey, then leap and attack when the time seems right. Dinner still escapes most of the time.<br />
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Born a Tiger?<br />
You're a natural leader but often like to do things by yourself. (That's how you stay in charge!) You believe in fighting for what's right, even if you'll lose in the end.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Other Tiger Years:<br />
1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022</span></div></div></div></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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<div class="art-img-left-cap" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;">Taijiquan Fighting Set Practice</div></div><div id="ymaa-articles" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal normal 1em/1.6em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 1em;">The beginning of Chinese martial arts probably started long before history was recorded. Martial techniques were discovered or created during the long epoch of continuous conflict between humanity and animals, or between different tribes of humans themselves. From these battles, experiences were accumulated and techniques discovered which were passed down generation to generation.<br />
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Later, with the invention of weapons, different types and shapes of weapons were invented, until eventually metal was discovered. Following the advancement of weapon fabrication, new fighting techniques were created. Different schools and styles originated and tested one another.<br />
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Many of these schools or styles created their forms by imitating different types of fighting techniques from animals (tiger, panther, monkey, snake, or bear), birds (eagle, crane, or chicken), or insects (praying mantis). The reason for imitating the animals’ fighting was that it was believed that, in order to survive in the harsh natural environment, all the animals still maintained a natural talent and skill for fighting. The best way to learn the fighting techniques was by studying and imitating these animals. For example, the sharp spirit of the eagle was adopted, the pouncing/fighting of the tiger and eagle’s strong claws was imitated, and the attacking motions of the crane’s beak and wings were copied.<br />
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<object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/_0XffPC5UR0/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_0XffPC5UR0&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_0XffPC5UR0&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Since the martial techniques first developed in very ancient times, gradually they became part of Chinese culture. The philosophy of these fighting arts and culture has in turn been influenced by other elements of Chinese culture. Therefore, the Yin/Yang Taiji theory was adopted into the techniques, and the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) concept was blended into the fighting strategy and skills.<br />
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Buddhism traveled to China from Nepal/India during the Eastern Han Ming emperor period (58-76 A.D.). Several hundred years after this, as several emperors became sincere Buddhists, Buddhism became very respected and popular in China. It is estimated that by 500 A.D., there probably existed more than 10 thousand Buddhist temples. In order to absorb more Buddhist philosophy during these five hundred years, some monks were sent to India to study Buddhism and bring back Buddhist classics. Naturally, some Indian monks were also invited to China for preaching.<br />
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According to one of the oldest books Deng Feng County Recording (Deng Feng Xian Zhi), a Buddhist monk name Batuo came to China for Buddhist preaching in 464 A.D. Deng Feng was the county where the Shaolin Temple was eventually located.<br />
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Thirty-one years later, the Shaolin Temple was built in 495 A.D., by the order of Wei Xiao Wen emperor (471-500 A.D.) for Batuo’s preaching. Therefore, Batuo can be considered the first chief monk of the Shaolin Temple. However, there is no record regarding how and what Batuo passed down by way of religious Qigong practice. There is also no record of how or when Batuo died.<br />
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However, the most influential person in this area was the Indian monk Da Mo (Pu Ti Ta Mo). Da Mo, whose last name was Sardili and who was also known as Bodhidarma, was once the prince of a small tribe in southern India. He was of the Mahayana school of Buddhism, and was considered by many to have been a bodhisattva, or an enlightened being who had renounced nirvana in order to save others. He is considered the 28th patriarch of Buddhism from India, and the 1st patriarch of Buddhism in China. From the fragments of historical records, it is believed that he was born about 483 A.D.<br />
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Da Mo was invited to China to preach by the Liang Wu emperor. He arrived in Canton, China in 527 A.D. during the reign of the Wei Xiao Ming emperor(516-528 A.D.) or the Liang Wu emperor (502-550 A.D.). When the emperor decided he did not like Da Mo’s Buddhist theory, the monk withdrew to the Shaolin Temple. When Da Mo arrived, he saw that the priests were weak and sickly, so he shut himself away to ponder the problem. When he emerged after nine years of seclusion, he wrote two classics: Yi Jin Jing (Muscle/Tendon Changing Classic) and Xi Sui Jin (Marrow/Brain Washing Classic).<br />
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The Yi Jin Jing taught the priests how to build their Qi to an abundant level and use it to improve health and change their physical bodies from weak to strong. After the priests practiced the Yi Jin Jing exercises, they found that not only did they improve their health, but they also greatly increased their strength. When this training was integrated into the martial arts forms, it increased the effectiveness of their martial techniques. This change marked one more step in the growth of the Chinese martial arts: Martial Arts Qigong.<br />
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The Xi Sui Jing taught the priests how to use Qi to clean their bone marrow and strengthen their immune system, as well as how to nourish and energize the brain, helping them to attain Buddhahood. Because the Xi Sui Jing was hard to understand and practice, the training methods were passed down secretly to only a very few disciples in each generation. Da Mo died in the Shaolin Temple in 536 A.D. and was buried on Xiong Er mountain. If you are interested in knowing more about Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing, please refer to the YMAA book, “Qigong - The Secret of Youth: Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/ Brain Washing”.<br />
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During the revolutionary period between the Sui dynasty and the Tang dynasty, in the 4th year of Tang Gao Zu Wu De (621 A.D., Qin King Li Shi-Ming had a serious battle with Zheng King Wang Shi-Chong ( ). When the situation was urgent for Qin King, 13 Shaolin monks assisted him against Zheng. Later, Li Shi-Ming became the first emperor of the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and he rewarded the Shaolin Temple with 40 Qing (about 600 acres) of land donated to the temple. He also permitted the Temple to own and train its own soldiers. At that time, in order to protect the wealthy property of the Shaolin Temple from bandits, martial arts training was a necessity for the monks. The priest martial artists in the temple were called “monk soldiers” (Seng Bing). Their responsibility, other than studying Buddhism, was training martial arts to protect the property of the Shaolin Temple.<br />
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For nearly three hundred years, the Shaolin Temple legally owned its own martial arts training organization, and continued to absorb martial skill from outside the temple into its training system.<br />
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During the Song dynasty (960-1278 A.D.) Shaolin continued to gather more martial skills from outside of the Temple. They blended these arts into the Shaolin training. During this period, one of the most famous Shaolin martial monks, Jueyuan traveled around the country in order to learn and absorb high levels of martial skill into Shaolin. He went to Lan Zhou to meet one of the most famous martial artists, Li Sou. From Li Sou, he meets Li Sou’s friend, Bai Yu-Feng and his son.<br />
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Later, all four returned to the Shaolin Temple and studied together. After ten years of mutual study and research, Li Sou left Shaolin; Bai Yu-Feng and his son decided to stay in Shaolin and became monks. Bai Yu-Feng’s monk name was Qiu Yue Chan Shi. Qiu Yue Chan Shi is known for his barehanded fighting and narrow blade sword techniques. According to the book Shaolin Temple Record, he developed the then existing 18 Buddha Hands techniques into 173 techniques. Not only that, he compiled the existing techniques contained within Shaolin and wrote the book, The Essence of Five Fist. This book included and discussed the practice methods and applications of the Five Fist (Animal) Patterns. The five animals included: Dragon, Tiger, Snake, Panther, and Crane. This record confirms that the Five Animal Patterns martial skills already existed for some time in the Shaolin Temple.</div>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-32672337213299782322011-07-06T04:02:00.000-07:002011-07-06T04:03:28.648-07:00HongKong<a href="http://www.disfrutahongkong.com/fotos/thumbs/hongkong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Historia de Hong Kong: Actualidad" border="0" src="http://www.disfrutahongkong.com/fotos/thumbs/hongkong.jpg" /></a><br />
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This bear is quite different from other bears. It has unusual cat-like eyes, and its front paws have an opposable "thumb."<br />
Female pandas are called sows, males are called boars, and the young are called cubs. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>EYES</b></span><br />
Most bears' eyes have round pupils. The exception is the giant panda, whose pupils are vertical slits, like cats' eyes. These unusual eyes inspired the Chinese to call the panda the "giant cat bear."<br />
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Pandas have very good eyesight. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>COLOR</b></span><br />
Giant pandas are white with black patches around the eyes, ears, shoulders, chest, legs, and feet. This black-and-white coloring may camouflage (hide) the panda in the snowy, rocky environment. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>SIZE</b></span><br />
<img align="left" border="0" height="79" src="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/pgifs/Pandawoman.GIF" width="90" />The largest pandas grow to be about 250 pounds (115 kg), about the weight of a large adult human. They are about 5.25 to 6 feet (1.6 to 1.8 m) long. The average adult male panda grows to be about 3 feet (1 m) tall at the shoulder and weighs about 220 pounds (100 kg). The average adult female panda grows to be about 2.5 feet (80 cm) tall at the shoulder and weighs about 180 pounds (80 kg). The panda's tail is about 6 inches (16 cm) long.<br clear="all" /><br />
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<tr align="center" bgcolor="#ff99ff"><th>Adult Giant Panda</th><th>Weight</th><th>Height (at shoulder)</th><th>Length (snout to tail)</th></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#ffff99"><th>Female</th><td>180 pounds (80 kg)</td><td>2.5 feet (80 cm)</td><td>5.25 feet (1.8 m)</td></tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#ffff99"><th>Male</th><td>220 pounds (100 kg)</td><td>3 feet (1 m)</td><td>6 feet (1.8 m)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>DIET</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><img src="http://www.teblanco.org/index_archivos/fotos/bambU.jpg" /></b></span>Pandas have the most specialized diet of any of the bears. Their diet is almost exclusively two species of bamboo (arrow and umbrella bamboo).<br />
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Pandas eat about 40 pounds (18 kg) of food each day. Bamboo is very low in nutrition. Even though the panda eats this plant, it cannot digest it very well and most of the bamboo passes undigested through the digestive tract. It has to eat for up to 12 hours every day in order to get enough nourishment. Its throat and stomach have extra-tough linings to protect them from the tough food. <br clear="all" /><br />
<b>Other problems with a bamboo diet</b>:<br />
<ul><li>These bamboo plants only grow in a few places. This limits the range of pandas tremendously.</li>
<li>Bamboo species go through periodic die-offs after they flower. Most plants in an area die-off at the same time (after flowering). When this happened in the past, pandas would migrate to another area where the bamboo was still flourishing. With the greatly reduced bamboo forests of today, this option is not always available. This leads to periodic starvations among giant panda populations.</li>
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In captivity (zoos and breeding centers), pandas eat bamboo, rice cereal, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>EATING</b></span><br />
Pandas usually eat while sitting in an upright position. Sitting this way, they can use their front paws to hold their food. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>PANDAS' PAWS</b></span><br />
Panda front paws are very unusual. These paws have five clawed fingers plus an extra bone that works like an opposable thumb. This "thumb" is not really a finger (like our thumb is). It is really an extra-long wrist bone that works like a thumb.<br />
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The panda uses these dextrous paws to grasp its food (bamboo shoots and leaves). <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>TEETH</b></span><br />
Since pandas spend most of their time eating tough, nutrition-poor bamboo, strong teeth and jaws are very important to a panda's survival. Giant pandas have large molars (flat teeth used for crushing food). They also have a few sharp teeth which they use to bite tough bamboo stalks. Pandas have 42 teeth. They also have strong jaw muscles which they use for chewing tough bamboo. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>FUR</b></span><br />
Pandas have very thick, oily, woolly fur that keeps them warm in their cold, wet mountain habitat. Their fur is made of two types of hairs; there are long, thick, coarse hairs and a shorter, fine, dense underfur. This fur is waterproof. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>DISTRIBUTION</b></span><br />
In the wild, giant pandas only live in a few mountain ranges in central and western China, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces.<br />
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Because of habitat destruction, the pandas now live in a series of broken ranges. This has created six isolated populations that do not interbreed. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>HABITAT</b></span><br />
The natural habitat of the giant panda is cool, wet, cloudy mountain forest land where bamboo grows. Giant pandas are found in mixed deciduous/evergreen temperate forests, between 3,000 and 10,500 feet (900-3,200 m) in altitude (below the timberline). Pandas used to also live at lower altitudes, but farming and land development have pushed the pandas high into the mountains. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>NUMBERS</b></span><br />
Giant pandas are an endangered species and their numbers are dwindling very quickly as their habitat is destroyed. There are roughly 1,000-1,500 pandas living in the wild (in China). There are about 120 living in zoos and breeding centers around the world. This species is extremely vulnerable to extinction because of humans. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>SOCIAL BEHAVIOR</b></span><br />
Giant pandas are mostly shy, solitary animals. They live most of their lives alone. A small group of pandas may share a large feeding territory, usually only meeting to breed. Scientists don't know very much about the lives of these animals. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>VOCALIZING</b></span><br />
Giant panda bears are mostly silent, but they can bleat! They don't roar like other bears, but they do have 11 different calls, four of which are only used during mating. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>LIFE SPAN</b></span><br />
The giant panda's life span in the wild has not been accurately documented, but Chinese scientists report that some pandas in zoos have lived to be 35 years old. Hsing-Hsing, who lives in the National Zoo, turned 29 in 1999. Most animals live longer in captivity than in the wild. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>LOCOMOTION</b></span><br />
Giant pandas have a rolling gait. Like people and other bears, giant pandas are flat-footed (plantigrade - that is, both heel and toe touch the ground when walking).<br />
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Pandas are good tree climbers, using their short claws to grab onto the bark. Sometimes they take afternoon naps high in the trees.<br />
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Unlike many other bears, pandas cannot walk on their hind legs. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>HIBERNATION</b></span><br />
Giant pandas do not hibernate since their food is available all year long. Also, the bamboo they eat is not high enough in nourishment to fatten them up for the winter. During the cold winter months, giant pandas go to lower altitudes where it is a bit warmer; they also take shelter in hollow trees or dens. They don't seem to have permanent dens. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>REPRODUCTION</b></span><br />
Pandas have a very slow reproductive rate which contributes to their declining numbers.<br />
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Male and female giant pandas mate in the spring, attracting each other with calls and odors.<br />
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Females give birth between 95 and 160 days after mating. They have their cubs in dens that they dig in the ground. One or two cubs are born but usually only one survives. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>BABY PANDAS</b></span><br />
Panda cubs are small, white, blind, furless, and helpless at birth. Except for marsupials (kangaroos, opossums, etc.), giant panda cubs are the smallest newborn mammals. They weigh four to six ounces (85-140 g) as newborns. This is lighter than an apple.<br />
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Like newborn human babies, panda cubs cry when they are hungry or need care from their mother. Their coats take on adult coloring about a month after birth. Cubs' eyes open at six to seven weeks. They will follow their mother at about three months after birth. They start eating bamboo at about 6 months old and are weaned from their mother at about 9 months.<br />
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Panda cubs grow very slowly. They stay with their mother for one to two years. They are fully grown in 2-4 years. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>PREDATORS OF PANDAS</b></span><br />
Humans are the giant panda's greatest enemy. Poachers still hunt giant pandas for their pelts, which they sell. Also, leopards sometimes kill cubs. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>THE EVOLUTION OF PANDAS</b></span><br />
The giant panda seems to have evolved during the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene, roughly two to three million years ago. During those times, the giant panda's range extended throughout southern China. Panda fossils have been found in eastern China (as far north as Beijing) , Burma, and Vietnam. <br clear="all" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>CLASSIFICATION</b></span><br />
The giant panda is considered a true bear (before recent genetic studies, it was thought to be a member of the raccoon family). It belongs to the:<ul><li>Kingdom <b>Animalia</b> (the animals)</li>
<li>Phylum <b>Chordata</b></li>
<li>Subphylum <b>Vertebrata</b> (animals with backbones)</li>
<li>Class <b><a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/">Mammalia</a></b> (warm-blooded animals with hair and mammary glands)</li>
<li>Order <b>Carnivora</b></li>
<li>Family <b>Ursidae</b> (Bears)</li>
<li>Genus and Species: <i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i> meaning "cat feet black white"</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">TOKYO: Lenovo's launch of a home videogame console in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/China" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">China</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">this year may throw into question the country's decade-old ban on the gadgets and could eventually open the $5.8 billion Chinese game market to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sony" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Sony</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Corp and Microsoft.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Eedoo-Technology" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Eedoo Technology</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, a games subsidiary of PC giant</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lenovo-Group" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Lenovo Group</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, plans to launch its iSec console, a gesture-controlled gadget akin to Microsoft's Kinect, in China in September or early October, Zhang Zhitong, a company spokesman said. He declined to say if it had official permission.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"This makes it curious about the law that bans consoles," said Lisa Cosmas Hanson of Niko Partners, an Asian game market consultancy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Hanson said the law effectively banning the sale of games consoles has been in place since 2000 and came about after pressure from disapproving parents.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">An apparent breach of the regulation could spark accusations of unfairness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"Somehow they're getting away with this where the other console companies are not," Hanson added. "Let's say you're touting this product as a competitor to the Kinect, then why doesn't Kinect qualify?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which governs the game industry, did not respond to questions submitted by fax and telephone about the Eedoo launch or the status of the ban.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Eedoo declined to comment on whether it had official permission to launch the console, which has been delayed from an initial launch date in the first quarter of the year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But the company emphasised its console can be used for more than just games and said it was in talks with government authorities, although the specific nature of the talks is unclear.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"This device can show pictures, play music, go online and has many other functions," Eedoo's Zhang said. "It is a home entertainment device. The gaming function of the machine is just one of its many capabilities."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The same argument could be used by Sony, whose</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PlayStation3" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">PlayStation3</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">console doubles as a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Blu-ray-player" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Blu-ray player</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and can be used to access its Qriocity music and movie streaming services.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sony has long lobbied for access to the Chinese market after it pulled out following an officially sanctioned, but limited, launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2004 that was abandoned in less than a year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sony declined to specify reasons for the withdrawal, but some in the industry blame overwhelming piracy while others say it was due to a Chinese government about-face.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox are available on the grey market in China, while</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nintendo" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Nintendo</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">has a basic console, the iQue, on sale via a local joint venture partner.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Permission to market the devices officially would likely mean more profit for the games giants, but neither Sony nor the Japanese government want to take a confrontational approach.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"The Chinese government ultimately needs to make the decisions. We can't force it," said Kazuo Hirai, Sony's second-in-command and the outgoing president of its games unit, in an interview at the E3 games convention in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Los-Angeles" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Los Angeles</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">in June.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">He said the company was trying to persuade the Chinese government of the potential benefits for Chinese software developers of legalising consoles and that he was optimistic about the outcome.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"I think the Chinese government is looking for a lot of opportunities for exporting certainly a lot of hardware-based products, but also culture and entertainment content as well. I'm very optimistic that way," Hirai added.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Microsoft" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">echoed Sony's upbeat outlook. "While Xbox has not yet been introduced to the China market due to restrictive policies, we are hopeful that we will be able to take this step soon," a company spokeswoman said.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But even if the market is opened to the world's console giants, the ban has enabled PC-based online gaming to dominate the industry. It is unclear how many Chinese consumers would pay extra for consoles.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"The PC online model's so entrenched there. Gamers love playing those games because they don't really have to pay for a specific hardware device," said Niko Partners' Hanson. "Consoles would require a big investment and have limited use," she added.</span>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-45466535298073083882011-07-06T03:06:00.000-07:002011-07-06T03:06:55.768-07:00Culture and Traditional Chinese Culture<h1 style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">What is culture? As a product of human thought, the word "culture" encompasses a great deal. During the ancient times, in China and other foreign countries, "culture" has constantly been brought about and discussed, and yet no unitary agreement has come out for its definition.</span></h1><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;">A system of thought and theory is known as ideological culture, which is the theoretical base underlying various modes of culture.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;">In ancient China, ideological culture usually involved Confucianism (advocating the rule of rites, with the accent on the traditional feudal order of importance and seniority in human relationship); Taoism (upholding nature, tranquillity, non-action, or letting things take their own course, and opposing struggle); Legalism (encouraging the rule of law and opposing the rule of rites); and Buddhism.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;">As early as Confucius' time, culture was talked about as "文" (<em>wen</em>, learning ) and "质" (<em>zhi</em>, nature, character), the opposing side, which was supposed to be "the moral behavior and the norms that the learned should have". So today the collocated saying "文质彬彬" (<em>wenzhi binbin</em>) implies "the state or the desired world that gentlemen (men of learning, being cultured, together with his moral behavior)" are expected to reach. In China "文化" (<em>wenhua</em>, culture) was probably first used in West Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.), when "culture" was used then to mean "Civil Administration" (文治, <em>wenzhi</em>) as opposed to "Military Administration" (武治, <em>wuzhi</em>). In Jin Dynasty (265 A.D.-316 A.D.) in China, according to history, "culture" only means "the Civil Administration of the country", which implies "a mean of state apparatus", and that obviously does not take the sense as it has in modern society.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;">However, when "天文" (<em>tianwen</em>, astronomy) was used in ancient China to refer to the natural phenomena and the related laws of nature, "人文" (<em>renwen</em>, the humane) was soon started to be used to refer to "the kinds of existing social phenomena" then, which is, to some extent, similar to the concepts of "culture" that people usually have in mind today for its broad sense.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;">But, "culture" is again difficult to define, because in different situations "culture" seems to have been defined in different ways. In social communication, for example, "culture" has been used for diversified purposes and taking more than 260 meanings. (See 沈锡伦, 1993). As far as education is concerned, for instance, people sometimes say "没有文化", (...<em>meiyou wenhua</em>) which always suggests that "he/she is illiterate"; but "学文化" (<em>xue wenhua</em>) means "learning from the very beginning", usually refers to the process of learning to read, to become literate from books. Then the saying "文化水平高" (<em>wenhua shuiping gao</em>) always tells that "someone has learned a lot from books" and implies, therefore, "he/she is more knowledgeable than others". So, "culture" is often the symbol for book knowledge and education.</div>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-23888493603986396612011-07-05T15:47:00.000-07:002011-07-05T15:47:27.151-07:00About China<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">China is located in Asia, the western shores of the Pacific Ocean. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">Its territory covers 9.8 million km2. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">Its coastline extends over 18.000 km.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">China's economy has grown fast since the seventies. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">After thousands of years of relying almost entirely on its agricultural sector and to experiment with the planned system that brought the communist revolution of Mao Zedong, the country opened to foreign investment and competition. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">According to recent data in 2005 the real GDP of China was second in the world with 10.5 billion dollars. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">The primary sector accounted for 14%, 46% secondary and tertiary 40%, was the first and third in exports in foreign exchange reserves of more than 1 trillion dollars.<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">To the west, dominated by large mountain ranges, especially the Himalayas, reaching its highest point on Mount Everest, and plateaus that characterize much of an arid landscape with deserts such as the Taklamakan and Gobi. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">Due to drought and damaging agricultural practices, dust storms have become usual in the spring. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span title="">The expansion of the Gobi desert is the main cause of these storms affecting the Northeast China and Korea and Japan.<br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.learnchineselanguage.net/small%20chart.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.learnchineselanguage.net/small%20chart.gif" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>Chinese</b> or the <b>Sinitic language(s)</b> (<span lang="zh">汉语</span>/<span lang="zh">漢語</span> <i>Hànyǔ</i>; <span lang="zh">华语</span>/<span lang="zh">華語</span> <i>Huáyǔ</i>; <span lang="zh">中文</span> <i>Zhōngwén</i>) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Language family">language family</a>consisting of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Language">languages</a> which are mostly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mutual intelligibility">mutually unintelligible</a> to varying degrees.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Han Chinese">Han Chinese</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="China">China</a>, it forms one of the branches of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sino-Tibetan languages">Sino-Tibetan family</a> of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000_(number)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="1,000,000,000 (number)">billion</a> people, speaks some variety of Chinese as their <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Native language">native language</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Varieties of Chinese">Internal divisions of Chinese</a> are usually perceived by their native speakers as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialects" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Dialects">dialects</a>of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_of_the_varieties_of_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Identification of the varieties of Chinese">this identification</a> is considered inappropriate by some linguists and Sinologists.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mair_3-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language#cite_note-Mair-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Chinese is distinguished by its high level of internal diversity, although all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Varieties of Chinese">varieties of Chinese</a> are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Tone (linguistics)">tonal</a> and<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Analytic language">analytic</a>. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most spoken, by far, is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a> (about 850 million), followed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Wu Chinese">Wu</a> (90 million), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Yue Chinese">Cantonese (Yue)</a> (70 million) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Min Chinese">Min</a> (50 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Xiang Chinese">Xiang</a> and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Chinese</a> <i>(Putonghua / Guoyu / Huayu)</i> is a standardized form of spoken Chinese based on the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_dialect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Beijing dialect">Beijing dialect</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin Chinese</a>, referred to as <span lang="zh">官话</span>/<span lang="zh">官話</span> <i>Guānhuà</i> or <span lang="zh">北方话</span>/<span lang="zh">北方話</span> <i>Běifānghuà</i> in Chinese. Standard Chinese is the official language of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Republic of China">Republic of China</a> (ROC, also known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>), as well as one of four official languages of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>. It is one of the six official languages of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>. Of the other varieties of Chinese, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Cantonese">Cantonese</a> is influential in Guangdong Province and Cantonese-speaking overseas communities, and remains one of the official languages of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> (together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="English language">English</a>) and of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Macau">Macau</a> (together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Nan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Min Nan">Min Nan</a>, part of the Min language group, is widely spoken in southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Fujian">Fujian</a>, in neighbouring Taiwan (where it is known as<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Taiwanese Hokkien">Taiwanese</a> or Hoklo) and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> (known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>). There are also sizeable <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hakka language">Hakka</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Shanghainese">Shanghainese</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Diaspora">diaspora</a>, for example in Taiwan, where most Hakka communities maintain<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglossia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Diglossia">diglossia</a> by being conversant in Taiwanese and Standard Chinese.</div>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-79116036702952748972011-07-05T15:35:00.000-07:002011-07-05T15:35:02.063-07:00Gastronomy in china<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #595959; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #595959; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The different provinces of China contributed to the history of <a class="kLink" href="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;"><span style="color: royalblue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(65, 105, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Chinese</span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(65, 105, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">cuisine</span></span></a>. The “Eight Great Traditions” represents the 8 major regional cuisines:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #595959; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul type="disc"><li>Anhui (simmer soft turtle shell, steamed stone frog, <a class="kLink" href="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;"><span style="color: royalblue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">bamboo </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">shoots</span></span></a>w/ dried mushroom and sausage),</li>
<li>Cantonese – from Guangdong in Southern China such as preserved-salted meats, congee w/ century egg, dace fishballs</li>
<li>Fujian – famous dishes include oyster omelet, noodles w/ dumplings (ban mien bian ruo)</li>
<li>Hunan – sizzling rice soup, orange beef, beer duck, Dongan chicken, Changsha vermicelli, Xiaoxiang turtle</li>
<li>Jiangsu – a style of cooking wherein texture of meat is soft and matching of color and shape of every dish.</li>
<li>Shandong – cooking of various <a class="kLink" href="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm#" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;"><span style="color: royalblue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">sea </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">foods</span></span></a> with light flavors; and famous for soup dishes.</li>
<li>Szechuan – kung pao chicken, tea smoked duck, twice cooked pork, dan dan noodles and fuqi feipen.</li>
<li>Zhejiang – consists of 4 styles of native cooking, the Shaoxing, Wenzhou, Ningbo and Hangzhou.</li>
</ul>Each regional cuisine varies significantly in terms of the style of food preparation. Buddhist and Muslim sub-cuisines also form part of the greater Chinese cuisine.<br />
Generally, <a class="kLink" href="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm#" id="KonaLink3" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;"><span style="color: royalblue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Chinese </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">food</span></span></a> is arranged in bite-sized pieces set for direct picking up and eating. Fish are typically served whole and diners are likely to pull pieces from the fish using their <a class="kLink" href="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm#" id="KonaLink4" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;"><span style="color: royalblue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(65, 105, 225) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">chopsticks</span></span></a>. A whole fish means wholeness of things since it has a proper beginning (head) with an end (tail). Chicken is another meat favorite in many Chinese meals. While the chicken is cut into parts, every single piece is served including the gizzards and head. In a Chinese meal, every individual is provided with a bowl of rice while the supplementary dishes are served up in shared plates or bowls.<br />
A hot tea or hot water is commonly served in a Chinese meal. Cold beverages such as soft drinks or water are considered to be harmful in digesting hot food. Tea is is said to aid in digesting oily foods. In some cities of China a popular combo in several small restaurants is the hot pot served with cold beer also known as "冷淡杯".<br />
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</div></div></div><fb:comments class=" fb_iframe_widget" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SpainExchange/150024511722785guide-China-gastronomy_in_china" style="display: inline-block; position: relative;" title="Gastronomy in China" url="http://www.spainexchange.com/guide/CN-gastronomy.htm" width="450" xid="163882583662529guide-China-gastronomy_in_china"></fb:comments></div></span>jordi666http://www.blogger.com/profile/06711614434706731595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675148164886166738.post-9641214687861912962011-07-05T14:58:00.001-07:002011-07-05T14:58:57.065-07:00The Economic Ascendancy of China - China as a Major Player in World EconomicsChina has experienced unparalleled economic growth within the last two decades. This growth has undoubtedly earned China the position of a major economic power in Asia. China ranks slightly behind Japan in economic power and marginally behind the United States in purchasing power. In world rankings, China is the sixth largest merchandising nation in the world, the twelfth largest exporter of commercial services, and the largest beneficiary of foreign direct investments. China's ascendancy has been furthered by its entry into the World Trade Organization in late 2001. Although there is some argument that the actual growth of China's economic status is not as high as the Chinese government presents, however there is little doubt that China has officially entered the global stage as a major economic player.<br />
Many experts are so impressed by the exponential growth of China's economy in recent years that they have referred to the nation as "the worlds manufacturing center". Surely, as China has become a major exporter of world goods, this description, although exaggerated, is largely descriptive of China's position in the world economy. However, this growth has been questioned by some experts and has worried other Asian nations. China's growth within the Asian market itself has increased steadily in the last two decades; a phenomenon largely unequaled by any other nation in the world.<br />
With other nations within Asia, as well as with nations outside of the geographic area, China's exports have far exceeded their imports. This growth has excited the investment sector and resulted in the inflow of global capital into the nation's economy. Although China's exports are still a relatively small portion of the Southeast Asian totals, most experts insist that China will be the areas largest exporter of goods within the decade. Experts have also noted a steady trade surplus with western nations such as the United States and the European Union that are likely to sustain and encourage China's economic growth.<br />
Part of this economic growth has been fueled by China's attraction as a tourist destination. The past two decades has seen a rise in the influx of tourists as well as the increase in both inbound and outbound business travel. Just like the rise in China's economic growth, its tourism market has also experienced significant increases. Currently, China has the world's fastest growing tourism market with over two million visitors each year in recent years. And as the nation continues to grow in a business sense, more and more individuals will be traveling into and out of the nation. There has been some concern that China's growth as an exporter of consumer goods may render other exporters somewhat impotent in the global consumer goods market.<br />
However, some experts argue that this will not occur because the increasing globalization of the world consumer goods market is likely to render other nations equally competitive in the production and exportation of such goods as communication technologies and electronics and that the production chain that exists throughout nations, especially in the case of Southeast Asia, will only be enhanced by the growth of such nations as China and their ascendancy as a world economic player. However, experts also predict that, especially in the areas of clothing and textiles, China's growth may result in increased competition in the Southeast Asian market that may render competing markets unable to keep up. Although this will surely keep market prices low, it will also give China a distinct advantage over its Southeast Asian neighbors and have an undesired effect on the wages and profit margins of industries in those other nations.<br />
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<div class="almost_half_cell" id="gt-res-content" style="padding-right: 16px; padding-top: 9px;"><div dir="ltr" style="zoom: 1;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 16px;"><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Brazil</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">sells</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">mainly</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">raw materials</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">to China</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">in late</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">2009, 95</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">% of the</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">money placed</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">in the nation</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">chaired by</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Dilma</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Rousseff</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, which amounted to</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">12,670</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">million dollars</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, was in</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">power</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">(45</span><span class="" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">%), agriculture</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">(20%</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">), mining</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">(20</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">%)</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">and steel</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">(10</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">%).</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">This</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">according to figures from</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Brazil's Banco</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Bradesco</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">SA</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, quoted by</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">China Daily</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">In 2010</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, these investments</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">increased to</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">reach $</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">17 billion</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, according to</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Chinese newspaper</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">said</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">yet</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">not</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">detalla.De</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Thus,</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">China</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">overtook</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">the U.S. as</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">the country's</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">main trading partner</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">in South America.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Brazil</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">then requested</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Asian giant</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">companies</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">that invest in</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">sectors other than</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">commodities</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">to rebalance</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">its economy.</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Finance Minister</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Fernando</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Teixeira</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">explained that</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">investing in agriculture</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">for</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">foreign companies</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">now</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">must find</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">local partners.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">During a visit to</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Brazil in May</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">this year, the</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Chinese Commerce Minister</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Chen</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Deming</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">said his</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">country was interested</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">in investing in</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">the framework</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">of the Brazilian plan</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">to modernize its</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">infrastructure.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">"Raw materials</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">constitute</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">70% of</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">bilateral trade,"</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">said</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Teixeira</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">, who added:</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">"My country</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">wanted to improve</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">trade relations in</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">the</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">medium and high</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">technology</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">range."</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">The</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Chinese suppliers</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">of</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">telecom equipment</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Huawei</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">and ZTE</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">heavy investment in</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Brazil in recent</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">years,</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">China</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Daily</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">added</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">recalling that</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">ZTE</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">created</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">an industrial park in</span><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Hortolandia,</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">near San</span> <span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones">Pablo.</span></span><div><span class="hps" title="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones"><br />
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