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Fujian Geological Museum

The Fujian Geological Museum, located at Fuzhou City, is a local comprehensive museum of geological science of China. It used to be the Exhibition Hall of Achievements of Geological Scientific Researches of the Geology Bureau of Fujian Province.

The museum, prepared in 1982, has collected around 4,000 pieces of various kinds of samples, of which 60 belong to Class One collection, includingtianhuangstone (a yellowish translucent stone found at Shoushan; prized as material for seals), sapphire, the fossil of graptolite of the early
Ordovician Period found for the first time in Fujian Province, and the fossil sample of the anchovy of the later Jurassic Period.

The museum covers an area of 1,200 square meters. The basic displays are ordinary geology, stratum paleontology, petrology, mineral resources and their industrial uses, deposit geology, and the Antarctic Pole geology and minerals. The most important exhibition is the mineral resources, displayed
in 10 categories. The nonmetal minerals on display have all the varieties available, such as the seaside superior-quality quartz placer deposit with its resource ranked number one in China, the unique standard sand used to define the grade of cement in China, and the Shoushan stone with its
reserves ranked number one in China. The other nonmetal minerals on display are the mineral samples with the special features of Fujian Province such as crystal mine, kaolin mine, barite mine and granite materials.

The museum also has a display of geological popular science, gives geological lectures, and runs a show window for popularization of geological science.

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Chinese Online Class - Chongqing Museum

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Chongqing Museum

The Chongqing Museum is a museum of Chinese social history. Situated on the top of the Pipa Mountain, the Museum was founded in 1951 as the Southwest Museum and was renamed as the Chongqing Museum in 1955. It has 3,000 square meters for exhibition halls.

The Museum boasts a collection of more than 100,000 pieces of relics and 50,000 documents, including over 500 stonewares of Paleolithic times, 1,000 relics of Bashu Culture, 100 stone sculptures of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), more than 4,000 porcelains and 5,000 paintings of various dynasties.
Relics of modern times total about 30,000 items, reflecting the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, the 1911 Revolution, the May 4thMovement, the Long March, and the Anti-Japanese War in the 1930s. In addition, there are over 5,000 handicrafts and fine arts of the local ethnic
minorities on display.

The Museum has held more than 150 exhibitions, including the Exhibition of Relics of Southwest China, the Display of Historical Relics of Sichuan, the Exhibition of Chongqing Excavations, and the Exhibition of Chongqiing's Anti-Japanese War Documents, etc.

Publications of the Museum includeConcerning the Bashu Culture,Han Dynasty Sculpture Art of Sichuan,Bronze Mirrors in Chongqing,Ancient Pottery of Sichuan, andSichuan During the May 4thMovement.

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Learn Chinese online - Shanghai History Museum

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Shanghai History Museum

The new Shanghai History Museum, located now just below the Oriental TV Tower at Pudong New Area, was formally opened to the public on July 1, 2000. There are three major exhibition units reflecting Shanghai's history, modern and recent revolutionary history.

Founded in September 1983, Shanghai History Museum was formerly known as Shanghai Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and got the present name in 1991. In 1992, the Museum was moved to Hongqiao Road as the temporary site, and the exhibition hall was expanded to 1,400 square meters. The 40,000-plus
exhibits collected by the Museum reflect the historic vicissitudes of the Shanghai city.

Many historical exhibits -- bronze tigers which originally stood in front of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, printing machines the Commercial Press bought from the United States in the 1920s, a model of the Bund set in the 1930s and the model of the Hardoon Garden -- are now already
in their new home in Pudong.

In a 4,000-square-metre exhibition hall, the 1,000 artefacts and exhibits are elaborately arranged to revive the old Shanghai. Amidst the unique shikumen, or stone-arched houses and various Chinese shops, visitors are able to savour the charm of the oriental metropolis, once the largest city in
the Far East.

Most exciting for many will be the "performing zone". Every day, performances are staged to tell the history of different periods -- from the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to the 1940s. Audiences can experience the old atmosphere with the help of the actors' songs and verbal and body languages.

A documentary about the Jewish influx to Shanghai to escape the Holocaust is on display regularly at the museum.

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Learn Mandarin online - Newspaper Office of China Relics

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Newspaper Office of China Relics

Address: No.1, Xilou Alley, Yonghegong Street, Eastern District, Beijing

Post Code: 100009

Tel: (86-10) 64010693 64010692 Fax: (86-10)64010693

The newspaper office of China Relics, established in 1987, is a newspaper and publishing institution under the State Bureau of Cultural relics.

Duties and tasks: To publicize state relics laws, regulations and policies; to report new archeological discoveries and relics research achievements; to spread relics and relics protection knowledge; to hold academic forums; and to conduct exchanges of domestic and foreign relics in formation.

Establishment: The newspaper includes the Editorial Department, General office and Service Department.

Major achievements: The newspaper offices publish Chinese Relics, a special weekly page on Chinese relics published in the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po and an internal monthly magazine, Work on Relics.

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Chinese Mandarin - Central Drama Institute

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Central Drama Institute

Address: N0.39 East Mianhua Alley, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Post Code: 100710

Tel: (86-10) 64013688 FAX: (86-10) 64014976

The Central Drama Institute (CDI), founded in 1950, is an institution of higher education under the Ministry of Culture.

Central Drama Institute
Duties and tasks: The duties and tasks for CDI are: train specialized personnel in performance, directing, stage art, drama theory and playwright; and do research work handed over by related departments. Establishment: CDI has Director Department, Performance Department, Department of Stage Art,
Department of Drama Literature, Department of Common Training, Research Institute, Library, Editors' office, President's Office, Department of Students' Affairs, Foreign Affairs Department, Dean's office and Department of Practice.

Major achievements: Major achievements of CDI which have won Prizes since 1978 include:History of dramas in Western Europe, Theoretical Research and Building up of Teaching Materi3ls, Research in Teaching of Directing and Directing Art; Alley in Rain,andStory of Sangshuping

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Learn Chinese - Kingdom of Wu

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Kingdom of Wu

TheKingdom of Wu(222-280) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220).

During the decline of the Han Dynasty, the State of Wu, a region in the South of the Yangtze River surrounding Suzhou, was under the control of the warlord Sun Quan. Sun succeeded his brother as King of Wu and considered the area to under his rule and subject to the Han Emperor. Unlike his
competitors, Wu did not really have the ambition to become the Emperor of China. However, after Cao Pi of the Kingdom of Wei and Liu Bei of the Kingdom of Shu, each having declared himself emperor, Sun decided to follow suit in 222, claiming to have founded theWu Dynasty.

The Kingdom was conquered by the first Jin Emperor Sima Yan in 280. With a lifespan of 58 years, it was the longest-lived of the three kingdoms.

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Pnyin - Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors

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Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors

Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors are produced in Hangzhou City, the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province in East China. In China, the brand Zhang Xiaoquan represents not only scissors, but also profound Chinese culture. Every generation worked hard to keep its reputation. In the past 300-odd years of
history, Zhang Xiaoquan has never been more popular than today.

Made locally since the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662-1723), Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors are reputed as the best scissors in China. More than 300 hundred years ago, the founder of Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors, Zhang Jiasi, adopted the techniques to make Zhejiang Longquan Sword, and innovated the skill of
inlaying scissors with steel. The scissors he made was famous far and wide for their tartness and shininess. Zhang Xiaoquan, the son of Zhang Jiasi, inherited his father's business and improved the processing techniques with strict regulations on mode, standard, variety and the degree of tartness.
Thus, he established the brand Zhang Xiaoquan, which made quite a prosperous business in the following several hundred years.

The King Scissors of Zhang Xiaoquan made in Hangzhou, 115 cm long and 56.64 kg in weight, have been recorded in the Genes World Record, while the smallest scissors are as tiny as 3 cm long and several grams in weight. In 1901, Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors won its first silver prize at the Nanyang
Quanye Exposition (an exposition for famous products held in the coastal cities of China in the Qing Dynasty); in 1919, it won the fourth prize at Panama World Exposition.

The Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors Factory in Hangzhou was established in 1957, and now, it has developed into the largest scissors manufacturer in China.

The factory, which releases 10 new designs yearly, also offers attractive models with ruler blades designed for children. The company is a top producer with sales and exports respectively accounting for 40 and 33% of China's total output of scissors. More than 30% of its output goes to about 40
counties and regions like Japan, Europe and Taiwan.

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Chinese Pinyin - Regulations of P.R.China on Nature Reserves

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Regulations of P.R.China on Nature Reserves

Article 31 The receiving unit shall report foreigners entering local natural reserves to the responsible administrative section of the natural reserves of the people's government of the province, municipality or autonomous region. Upon entering national natural reserves, the receiving unit shall
report to the responsible administrative section of the natural reserves of the people's government of the State Council.

Foreigners entering natural reserves shall abide by the laws, regulations and rules of the natural reserves.

Article 32 In the core and buffer zones of the natural reserves, the manufacture of constructions is forbidden. In the experimental zone of the natural reserves, the manufacture of constructions, which may pollute or damage the environment, is also forbidden. No facility construction is permitted
that discharges pollutants surpassing the national or local set standards. The facilities that have been established in the experimental zone of the natural reserves with discharges surpassing the national or local set standards shall be restrained; the ones that have caused loses shall provide
compensation.

Projects constructed in the outer protection zone of the natural reserves shall not have a negative impact on the quality of the environment of the natural reserves. Projects that have already caused a negative impact shall mend their ways within a given time limit.

The decision to reform shall be made by certain bureaus according to laws and regulations; enterprises in need of reform shall complete the task on time.

Article 33 An individual or agency that has polluted or damaged, or may pollute or damage, natural reserves due to an accident or other unexpected incidents, shall carry out measures to: resolve the problem, inform the residents or units that may be harmed, report to management and the responsible
sections of the local natural reserves and the environmental protection unit, and accept an investigation and a punishment.

Chapter IV Legal Responsibility

Article 34 An individual or agency that has violated a regulation in one of the following situations shall amend their behavior in accordance with the enforcement of the administrative section of the natural reserves. A fine of RMB 100-5,000, depending on the situation, could also be imposed.

Moving or destroying landmarks of natural reserves without permission

Entering natural reserves without permission or disobeying the working staff.

An individual or agency permitted to conduct activities such as scientific research, teaching and specimen collecting in the buffer zone of the natural reserves but has failed to submit a copy of the achievement record to the administrative section of the natural reserves.

Article 35 Apart from being punished, an individual or agency that conducts activities in violation of the regulation -- such as felling, grazing, hunting, fishing, herb collecting, cultivating, burning grass on waste land, mining, stone collecting and sand digging can be seized, forced to stop
the illegal activities, asked to restore the natural reserves in a given time or provide compensation. A fine of RMB 300-10,000 can also be imposed for damaging the reserves.

Article 36 A natural reserves administrator who refuses to coordinate the supervision of the responsible section of the environmental protection or relevant responsible natural reserves section, or engages in fraud during the supervision can be fined RMB 300-3,000 by the responsible environmental
protection section of the people's government above a county level or the relevant responsible natural reserves section.

Article 37 An administrative section of the natural reserves that violates the regulation in one of the following situations shall be dealt with in accordance with the responsible environmental protection section of the people's government above county level. The person directly responsible shall
be punished accordingly by the unit in charge.

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Chinese Studies - Other National Nature Reserves

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Other National Nature Reserves

Poyang Lake Nature Reserve of Jiangxi Province

In southern Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Provinceand at the foot of Lushan Mountain lies Poyang Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in China. Poyang Lake Nature Reserve covers a total area of 22,400 hectares. Its protection targets are white cranes, egrets and other rare birds. It has been listed as a
Wetland of International Importance.

According to related investigation, the Reserve provides shelters for a million birds of258 species,of which over40such as egrets, white cranes, white-crown cranes, great bustards, golden eagles and swansareput under the first-grade and second-grade state protection.It is known as the world's
largest nature reserve for white cranes to live through the winter. Some 95% white cranes in the world may fly here to escape the winter cold. Up to now, Poyang Lake is also the habitat for migratory birds in the world to spend their winter. Therefore, Poyang Lake becomes an important reserve for
the protection and research of birds.

East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve of Hunan Province

Located in the boundaries of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve covers an area of 190,300 hectares. The Reserve has been listed as a Wetland of International Importance. Its main protection targets are wetland and rare bird species.

The Reserve is part of Dongting Lake, the second largest freshwater lake in China. Affected by the Yantze River and Xiang Water System, marshland, swamp, shoal and so on have been formed. At the same time, materials brought by floodwaters are deposited, which provide favorable conditions for
aquatic wildlife to live and breed. Since the Reserve lies in the reproduction area of migratory birds of the winter and the summer, it is rich in bird species. There are 158 species of migratory birds and 10 species including white cranes are put under the first-grade state protection, 27 species
such as swans under the second-grade state protection. Such mammals as white-flag dolphin and black finless porpoise can often be spotted in the lake. The Reserve also boasts 20 fish species of economic value such as Chinese Paddlefish.

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Study Chinese - Herb Peony

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Herb Peony

Alias:Jiangli,Yurong,Liuyi

Family Name: Paeoniaceae

1. Morphological Character

The stalk is caespitose. The trunk is between 60 to 150 centimeters in height, with thick and long fleshy root. The leaves at the bottom are compound leaves, while those at the top are simple leaves, with white bony thin teeth at the edge. The top of the stalk ramifies, with a flower on top of
each branch, which is between 5.5 to 10 centimeters in diameter. Some gardening species have flowers with a diameter of 15 to 20 centimeters. The flowers are white, pink, red, purple, dark purple, lilac, yellow, etc. The follicle fruit matures in August.

2. Main Points for Planting

The main method of reproduction is offshooting and seeding. Offshooting should be performed from the last ten days of August to that of September. Offshooting in spring would cause the maladjustment of moisture and nutrition in the plant, resulting in debility and death of the plant. To offshoot,
the root should be dug out, dried in the shade for one or two days and finally broken off along the aperture. Offshooting should be performed once every 6 to 10 years. In reproduction of seeding, root starts rhizogenesis in the same fall of seeding and the seed will germinate in the spring of the
next year. The young plant grows slowly. Very few plants will blossom in the following third year. The common blossom time is in the following 4 or 5 years. Basic fertilizer should be plenteous before inseminating, with deep furrowing and flatting once and again. The best time to inseminating is
between the last ten days of August and that of September. The row space between plants should be 85cm×85cm. Fertilizer should be applied together with freezing water before ice-out in spring, and it should be fertilized 3 times a year. The soil should be wet with a little dry. The plant should
be watered thoroughly before blossom. Water it completely with fertilization before the germination in early spring. Water it with freezing water in the last twenty days of November.

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Chinese Class - Leopard

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Leopard

With the alias of Gold-coin Leopard, or Baozi and Wenbao, it belongs to the Felidae family of Carnivora order. Its scientific names are Panthera pardus (Latin), and Leopard (English).

It weighs about 50 kilograms, and the body length is above 1 meter, with the tail exceeding half of the total length. It belongs to the type of large- or medium-sized beast of prey genera, with a shape similar but miniature to tiger. It has round head, short ears, four sturdy and strong limbs, and
sharp claws with good retractility. Its body colors are vivid, with tan hair, and black spots and loop lines all over, forming old-coin-shaped stripes. Hence, it was given the name of "Gold-coin Leopard". Its belly is milky white.

It inhabits in multifarious environments, distributed from low mountains, hills to mountain forests and bushes, living in invisible and solid caves. It has extremely strong physical strength, sensitive vision and olfaction, and is highly alert. It is also skillful in swimming and climbing trees.
The above abilities make it a daring and fierce carnivore with broad food choices. During the breeding period, the males fight impetuously for females. Its oestrus and mating are usually in April, and new babies are delivered in June or July, usually 3 babies per propagation. Young leopards leave
the mother leopard in the following autumn to live by themselves, and grow to sexual maturity at the age of 2.5 to 3. Under breeding condition, its life span can reach as long as 20 to 23 years.

It was once widely distributed in northeastern China and south of the Yellow River; but now the quantity is very small. Leopard has been listed in Appendix I ofInternational Trade Convention on Endangered Wild Animal and Plant Species.

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Study Chinese - Weight-lifting

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Venue: Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium

Time: Aug 9 – 13, Aug 15 - 19

An ancient sport as old as mankind, embodying the most direct manifestation of human strength, weightlifting has not only flourished, but also developed into a modern sporting discipline for the 21st century. The apparent simplicity of lifting the barbell from the ground and over the head in one
or two movements is deceiving.

Weightlifting requires a combination of power, speed, technique, concentration and timing. Super heavyweight lifters normally claim the title of World’s Strongest Man or Woman.

However, kilo per kilo, the lightest weightlifter is often the strongest. Men’s weightlifting was on the programme of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Women participated for the first time at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000.

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Chinese Mandarin - Everyday Eating Customs in China

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Everyday Eating Customs in China

Chinese cuisine culture is deep rooted in China's history. There are so many “whys” that you may find so interesting: Why is a fish never turned over Why do tea-drinkers surreptitiously tap tables Why are Chinese dinner tables round and how will you know who is the guest of honor

The whole meal will be more enjoyable if you knows a little of the ancient traditions and beliefs that place the meal in a 5,000-year-old culinary heritage.

As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home or restaurant you will find that table manners are essential and the distinctive courtesies displayed will invariably add to the enjoyment of your meals and keep you in high spirits!

1. Though customs and the kinds of food eaten vary according to region, it is most common for Chinese families to gather for three meals a day.

2. An individual place setting for an everyday meal includes a bowl of Fan (rice), a pair of chopsticks, a flat-bottomed soup-spoon, and a saucer. Instead of a napkin, a hot towel is often provided at the start as well as the end of the meal for the diner to wipe his hands and mouth.

3. The real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China all the dishes will put on the table for everyone’s share. The meat and vegetable dishes are laid out all at once in the center of the table, and the diners eat directly from the communal plates using
their chopsticks. Soup is also eaten from the common bowl. Rather than for serving oneself a separate portion, the saucer is used for bones and shells or as a place to rest a bite taken from a communal plate when it is too large to eat all at once.

4. It is perfectly acceptable to reach across the table to take a morsel from a far-away dish. To facilitate access to all the dishes, Chinese dining tables are more likely to be square or round, rather than elongated like their western counterparts.

5. Maybe one of the things that will surprise a Western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts would like to put food into the plates of their guests. Usually in formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may still use their own
chopsticks. This is a token of genuine friendship and politeness. It is polite to eat the food. If you don’t like to eat it, please just leave the food in the plate.

6. Eating usually begins in order of seniority, with each diner taking the cue to start from his or her immediate superior.

7. In order to cool the soup a bit and to better diffuse the flavor in the mouth, soup is eaten by sipping from the spoon while breathing in. This method, of course, produces the slurping noise that is taboo in the West.

8. Rice, or Fan in Chinese, is the staple food. To eat Fan, a diner raises the bowl to her lips and pushes the grains into her mouth with chopsticks. This is the easiest way to eat it and shows proper enjoyment. The diner must finish the entire bowl of rice, otherwise it is considered bad manners
-- a lack of respect for the labor required to produce it.

9. People in China tend to over-order food, especially at banquets or get-togethers, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed or not enough.

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I first meet "囧" ( pronounced Jiong in Chinese) was one moth ago when I talked online with a young man who is an intern in my company. He sent me a face-like symbol following a request for a permission of absence. I guessed this may be an expression of puzzlement. To my surprise, from then on, I
came across this face everywhere on the internet, from MSN, QQ, blog to BBS, from flash game to everyday commodities.

I searched for it online and found this embarrassed looking face is actually an ancient Chinese hieroglyphic character, and it originally means"bright". The big outside pane indicates the house and the smaller one represents the window, where light come through. Yet because of its resemblance to a
human face with two drooping eyebrows and a mouth, some Internet users have started using it as an emoticon to express embarrassment. Now, however, the character has been tweaked to represent many other feelings.

A sudden metamorphosis

Why does this uncommon ancient character get so much attention One saying is that the 囧's prevalence based on a discussion about a Hong Kong actress Hu Xing'er in a famous BBS. People described Hu's expression in one TV series was the same as the 囧. Then other comments about her acting and
her face were labeled by the 囧 character. More and more people focused on this square face and more kinds of 囧appeared on the internet.

When we talk about 囧, we cannot mention another famous internet icon—Orz. It was originally from Japan but then spread to China. It illustrates a guy facing left and kneeling on the ground, the "o" is the head, the "r" is the hands and the body while the "z" is the legs. People use this
pictograph to show they failed and they are in despair or in a sad mood.

There are many alternative forms of "orz" including "or2", "on_", "OTZ", "OTL", "STO", "JTO" and so on. Inspired from the orz, people use it instead the 囧. Then the “囧rz” appeared.

Following the prevalence of 囧, a discussion about is it right to change Chinese began. Some complained that these developments are twisting the Chinese language, imposing funny, new meanings on a character with its own linguistic roots. Such "innovations" could confuse young people by distorting
linguistic history, they say. Supporters, however, say this is only a harmless new cultural phenomenon, giving new life to Chinese language and culture.





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Everyday Eating Customs in China




Chinese cuisine culture is deep rooted in China's history. There are so many “whys” that you may find so interesting: Why is a fish never turned over Why do tea-drinkers surreptitiously tap tables Why are Chinese dinner tables round and how will you know who is the guest of honor





The whole meal will be more enjoyable if you knows a little of the ancient traditions and beliefs that place the meal in a 5,000-year-old culinary heritage.

As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home or restaurant you will find that table manners are essential and the distinctive courtesies displayed will invariably add to the enjoyment of your meals and keep you in high spirits!

1. Though customs and the kinds of food eaten vary according to region, it is most common for Chinese families to gather for three meals a day.

2. An individual place setting for an everyday meal includes a bowl of Fan (rice), a pair of chopsticks, a flat-bottomed soup-spoon, and a saucer. Instead of a napkin, a hot towel is often provided at the start as well as the end of the meal for the diner to wipe his hands and mouth.

3. The real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China all the dishes will put on the table for everyone’s share. The meat and vegetable dishes are laid out all at once in the center of the table, and the diners eat directly from the communal plates using
their chopsticks. Soup is also eaten from the common bowl. Rather than for serving oneself a separate portion, the saucer is used for bones and shells or as a place to rest a bite taken from a communal plate when it is too large to eat all at once.

4. It is perfectly acceptable to reach across the table to take a morsel from a far-away dish. To facilitate access to all the dishes, Chinese dining tables are more likely to be square or round, rather than elongated like their western counterparts.

5. Maybe one of the things that will surprise a Western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts would like to put food into the plates of their guests. Usually in formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may still use their own
chopsticks. This is a token of genuine friendship and politeness. It is polite to eat the food. If you don’t like to eat it, please just leave the food in the plate.

6. Eating usually begins in order of seniority, with each diner taking the cue to start from his or her immediate superior.

7. In order to cool the soup a bit and to better diffuse the flavor in the mouth, soup is eaten by sipping from the spoon while breathing in. This method, of course, produces the slurping noise that is taboo in the West.

8. Rice, or Fan in Chinese, is the staple food. To eat Fan, a diner raises the bowl to her lips and pushes the grains into her mouth with chopsticks. This is the easiest way to eat it and shows proper enjoyment. The diner must finish the entire bowl of rice, otherwise it is considered bad manners
-- a lack of respect for the labor required to produce it.

9. People in China tend to over-order food, especially at banquets or get-togethers, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed or not enough.











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