Jessica

//**China**//

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food, clothing, customs, traditions, housing, family, language, education, celebrations, pastimes, games || ** Notes from: ** Food :What do people eat? People usually eat noodles,dumplings and tang yuan. Clothing : People wear silk robes. People also wear modern clothes. Another fact: Another fact: || =China has lots of different foods & clothes.= =People usually eat noodles,dumplings and tang yuan. China also has 56 ethnic groups. The ethnic groups are tibetan, tu, va, qiang, li, lisu, yi, bai, dai, mongol, tujia, yugur, han, naxi, salar, russian, korean, lhoba, jingpo, buyei, xibe, jino, blang, hezhen, deang, tatar, yao, tajik, uygur, hui, kazak, gelao, zhuang, shui, uzbek, derung, nu, bonan, monba, oroqen, man, ewenki, achang, hani, miao, lahu, dong, gin, daur, dongxiang, gaoshan, pumi, she, maonan, kirgiz, & mulao. Most people in china are in the Han ethnic group.= || **// Beliefs //**** : ** religion, holidays, right and wrong, symbols, education, customs, traditions, beliefs, folktales || ** Notes from: ** Holiday : The most celebrated holiday is Chinese New Year. Custom/Tradition: Another fact Another fact: || ** China's most celebrated holiday is Chinese New Year (CNY). The Chinese get together with their family and stay up all night to wait for the arrival of the next year. Another holiday is the moon festival. Chinese people belive a woman called chang e flew on to the moon by eating a special magical herb. **
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=Most social values are derived from Confucianis mm and Taoism.= =Chinese religion was originally oriented to worshipping the supreme god Yu huang da di during the Xia and Shang dynasties, with the king and diviners acting as priests and using oracle bones.= || art, music, dance, games, leisure, beauty, drama || ** Notes from: ** Art: Music: Famous building: Another fact: Another fact: || ** The chinese built a great wall to keep out invaders. It's the only man made thing to be able to be seen from the moon. It's a famous landmark. Chinese people use a brush with sheep fur to write and draw. They use black ink for their strokes. People hang paintings up during approprite seasons like one with snow is hung up in winter. These would be drawn on rice paper. Rice paper contains crushed grains and bamboo. Rice paper is very thin and if water gets on it, the water spreads very fast. ** =China is one of the main birth places of Eastern martial arts.= =Chinese martial arts are collectively given the name Gong Fu (gong) "achievement" or "merit", and (fu) "man", this means "human achievement" or (previously and in some modern contexts) Wushu ("martial arts" or "military arts").= = = = = || jobs and work, money, technology, roles of men and women, currency, goods, services || ** Notes from: ** Money :yuan, jiao and fen. Another fact: Another fact: || =China is a communist country. Communism is a word that describes government. It means to distribute wealth evenly to everybody.= || rules, laws, government, leaders, local, national || ** Notes from: ** Current President or leader : hu jing tao Another fact: || ** Paragraph ** || geography, climate, land and water features || ** Notes from: ** Continent : Asia Animals : What is the national animal? The national animal is the Giant Panda. Climate/weather : || ** Paragraph ** || history || ** Notes from: ** clothes: =People wear silk robes.= = = = Fun Fact: Hong Kong used to be a British Colony. = || ** The chinese built a great wall to keep out invaders. It's the only man made thing to be able to be seen from the moon. It's a famous landmark for china. ** ||
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