Question K of IE Application-Chinese Culture

1. CHINESE CULTURE
QUESTION K

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CONTENT
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ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
THE BEIJING OPERA
CHINESE KUNGFU
EAT, PRAY, LOVE

3. PART 1

4. Ancient Chinese
architectural art is the
most immemorial and
outspread art system
in the world.
Deeply rooted in the
traditional Chinese
culture,
it includes numerous
remarkable works
such as
the world famous
Great Wall,
Summer Palace and
Forbidden City.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
ANCIENT
BUILDING

5. Covering an area of
720,000 square meters,
Forbidden City is
the world’s largest
wooden architecture
and an absolute
incomparable
masterpiece.
Its palaces extend
from the very north
to the very
south of Beijing
and have witnessed
the rise and fall of
two dynasties.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
ANCIENT
BUILDING

6. As one of
The World's Eight
Wonders,
the Great Wall has a
overall length of
21196 kilometers
and a history of
more than
2000 years.
It demonstrates the
wisdom of Chinese
people and constitute
an irreplaceable part of
Chinese history
and culture.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
ANCIENT
BUILDING

7. Different from the strange and mysterious Gothic architecture, ancient architecture in China reflects Chinese’
pursuit of integrity. Most of these buildings are circular, square and symmetrical, the style of which accords
with people’s appreciation of beauty and embodies the unity of nature and human beings.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
ANCIENT
BUILDING

8. Modern Chinese
architecture also
inherits the traditional
spirit and style of
their ancestors.
The stream lined
design not only
expresses
modernism, efficiency
and speed,
but also shows
Chinese’ praise for
completeness.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
MORDEN
BUILDING

9. To demonstrate
the historical sense
and the national
origin of
5000-year China,
Chinese architects
always characterize
the buildings by
solemnity and
magnificence,
which arouse
people’s inner awe
and veneration.
ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA
MORDEN
BUILDING

10. PART 2

11. BEIJING OPERA
The most distinctive part of
Beijing opera is its facial makeup.
Different character has different
style of makeup and represent
different personality.
For example, white face
represents duplicity, black
represents justice, blue
represent arrogance and red
represent loyalty and
enthusiasm.
As the quintessence of Chinese culture, Beijing opera has
been performed all over the world as a unique art form

12. BEIJING OPERA
Facial makeup is a combination of both beauty and ugliness. It is beyond any of the natural shape in real life and
is courageously designed with exaggeration, decoration, filament line and color flow. Today, facial makeup has
been separated from Beijing opera and becomes an independent art practice that focuses on imagination,
metaphor and symbolism.

13. BEIJING OPERA
Apart from the facial
makeup, Beijing opera
also requires the
actors to put on traditional
Chinese costumes and
head decorations.
The design of the clothes
various according to the
character’s identity.
Short embroidered capes
are for the rich while
pants are for the poor and
only the emperors can
wear clothes decorated
with dragons.

14. BEIJING OPERA
The flamboyant head
decoration, embroidery, facial
makeup together with the
actors’ singing,
dialoguing,
acting and
acrobatic fighting
compose this spectacular
art form.
Beijing opera combines
drama, music, apparel art and
face-painting art together and
presents the audience
with a truly
visual feast that
arouse people’s search for
aesthetics and
excellence.

15. PART 3

16. “YANY”, WHICH
MEANS THE
HEAVEN,
REPRESENTS
MASCULINITY AND
POSITIVITY
“YIN”, WHICH
MEANS THE EARTH,
REPRESENTS
FEMININITY AND
NEGATIVITY
CHINESE KUNGFU

17. 1
2 Chinese Kungfu is a manifestation of
Taoism. It aims at reaching an internal
harmony by combining the strength
training and mental exercise together
and by conquering the unyielding with
the yielding.
Chinese Taoism believes that everything
in this world has two sides: Yin and Yang,
heaven and earth, male and female,
positivity and negativity. They interact
with each other in order to keep balance.
CHINESE KUNGFU

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2
Technically speaking, Kungfu is not a kind of sports
since the core of sports is to beat others and to win.
Kungfu is an form of art and should be performed
rather than becoming a part of competitive sports.
3 That is why when Bruce Lee first introduced
Chinese Kungfu to the foreigners, he insisted on
giving performance only even though many fighters
challenged him and called him a coward since he
refused to compete with them.
Kungfu is not only a wrestling skill, but also a
spiritual culture. It is not a skill to attack others, but
a way to prevent aggression and to preserve peace.
CHINESE KUNGFU

19. 1
2 Shaolin Kungfu focuses on skill training
and represents the “Yang” part of
Chinese Kungfu. It includes free combat,
wrestling, grappling and is famous for its
unique cudgel play.
As a branch of Chinese Kungfu, Shaolin
Kungfu has the most prominent feature
of combining martial art and
Zen Buddhism together. It stems from
Shaolin Temple-the fountainhead
of Zen Buddhism-and flourishes as a
faith-based traditional culture.
CHINESE KUNGFU

20. Shaolin Kungfu can be dated back to A.D. 527 and still keeps growing now under
the government’s assistance as a legacy of Chinese culture.
SHAOLIN KUNGFU
CHINESE KUNGFU

21. PART 4

22. In total, there are
8 kinds of cuisine,
5 kinds of flavor and
25 kinds of cooking method in China that
make eating more than just taking food,
but also a rite of creating,
enjoying and appreciating.
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The vast territory of China
with its different climates,
natural resources
and customs breeds various kinds of
diet cultures including
the traditional tea culture
and wine culture in China.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE

23. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese Cuisine
Talking about Chinese food, the first image jumping out of most people’s mind is a
bow of dumplings. Dumplings to Spring Festival is like turkeys to Thanks Giving.
On the new year’s eve, family members usually get together to make dumplings on
their own. So as time goes by, dumplings has now become a symbol of family
reunion and happiness in China.

24. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese Cuisine
There are various cooking methods of dumplings. They can be made of rice, meat,
vegetables, beef and mushroom and can be steamed, fried, roasted, stewed and
baked. Each combination generates a new taste that can active your appetite.

25. EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese Cuisine
Apart from the exquisite cooking skills, Chinese
cuisine also emphasizes a lot on the tableware, color, smell,
taste and appearance of the food and dedicates to show the beauty of integrity.

26. Chinese Cuisine
EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese culture also has a significant
influence on Chinese diet.
For example, the design of Chinese
hotpot imitates the shape of the
Yin and Yang symbol and
triggers the modern Chinese
nostalgia for the ancient Chinese culture.

27. TEA CULTURE
EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Tea has been found
as a drink for
more than 4000 years
in China and
has become an
irreplaceable part of
people’s daily life.
Chinese people use tea as
a drink to serve guests,
an entertainment in
social activities,
a model to draw in the
pictures and
a substitute of table wine.

28. TEA CULTURE
EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese people like
to drink tea without
any accompany.
They like the bitter taste
of the tea-leaf and its
fragrant after-taste
because it resonates with
Chinese admire for
painstaking fruit.
Its mild taste has been
endowed with
frugalness and peace
and has been deeply
loved for
thousands of years.

29. TEA CULTURE
EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Chinese tea culture is very different
from Europe and Japan.
It goes beyond making and tasting.
It penetrates into Chinese poetry,
painting, calligraphy,
religion and medicine.
For thousand of years,
Chinese people not only have
accumulated abundant knowledge
about tea’s growing and
making methods,
but also have been utilizing it as an
important literature element.

30. CHINESE CULTURE
Apart from these mentioned above, Chinese
culture also includes numerous traditional
festivals, medicine, music and worship that will
take you more than a lifetime to fully
understand.
Nowadays, the Chinese government strives to
protect and develop the Chinese culture so that
it can be inherited with full vigor and spread
around the world.
So with the flourishing status quo of modern
China, the Chinese culture will continue to
thrive and influence the world.

31. TO BE CONTINUED
CHINESE CULTURE

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