Chinese culture Chinese characters, poetry, Hanfu, Chinese food Chinese medicine

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Chinese character is a kind of traditional Chinese writing art, such as inscription, seal cutting, plaque, couplets, ruler, fan, etc., all of which are artistic expressions with Chinese characteristics.Chinese characters also enter the common people's homes, such as Spring Festival couplets, paste characters and so on.

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A scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper, or silk cloth and mounted on paper.The traditional painting form of the Han nationality is to use a brush dipped in water, ink or color to paint on silk or paper. This kind of painting is called "Chinese painting" or "Traditional Chinese painting".Tools and materials include writing brush, ink, traditional Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk, etc. Subjects can be divided into characters, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques can be divided into pens and freehand brushwork.In terms of content and artistic creation, Chinese painting reflects the ancient people's understanding of nature, society and the politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art associated with it.

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Poetry is a unique style in Chinese, with a special form and rhythm.According to the rhythm, poetry can be divided into two types: ancient poetry and modern poetry.
In ancient times, playing lute (mostly referring to playing guqin), playing chess (mostly referring to Chinese chess and Weiqi), calligraphy and painting were the skills that literati (including some ladies of noble families) must master to cultivate themselves, so they were collectively called "the four friends of literati".

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Chinese cuisine has a variety of ingredients.Chinese cuisine has four flavors and eight cuisines. The four flavors are: Lu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Huaiyang. The eight major cuisines generally refer to: Shandong, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Cantonese and Fujian.
Each cuisine and flavor are closely related to local cultural history, geographical environment, economic conditions and customs. For example, Sichuan cuisine, the main taste is spicy. Because Sichuan locates in the basin area, the long-standing people's body will have heavy moisture and spicy can remove moisture. The health and food combination is also with strong Chinese characteristics.

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Chinese Kungfu or Chinese Martial Arts is a series of fighting styles developed in China over the centuries. Although Kung Fu is a form of fighting, it advocates both virtue and peace, not aggression or violence. There are many styles in Kungfu commonly are
Shaolin Kung Fu
Shaolin Boxing
Tai Chi
Qigong
Sanda
Wing Chun
Bagua Palm (Zhang)
Xingyi boxing
Liang Yi Quan
and much more