Traditions: knot tying, Chinese shadow puppetry and foot binding.
Food: A lot of the food Chinese people eat are stir fried dishes and rice, their diet consists of bean sprouts, cabbage and scallions. This is because they do not consume a lot of meat, occasionally they will eat some meats such as pork or chicken. These are just some of the most popular dishes in China
Chinese Shadow puppet art
Chinese Knot tying
puppets are usually made from donkey cow or sheep leather
One person only controls all and every puppet himself.
Natural Resources
Chinese new years.
Holidays and Festivals
Coal, Iron ore, Petroleum and Natural gas are just a few of the many different natural resources China has to offer.
Physical Features
Chinese Qingmng signifies the remembering of past ancestors.
Landforms: China is home to many mountains, deserts and also homes to about 2,800 different tree species, 2,000 species of edible, plants and 3,000 medical plants. There are 3 major rivers; the Yangtze River, Yellow River and the Pearl River.
They clean and sweep graves, worship their ancestors and give an offering to the dead.
holidays: China has seven legal holidays in a year, including New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Day and National Day
Festivals: Spring Festival( celebrated on the 1-15th of the lunar month), Lantern Festival ( celebrated on the 15th), Qingming Festival(celebrated on the April 4th and 5th of the solar month),Dragon Boat Festival (celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th lunar moon), Double Seventh Festival (valentines day celebrated usualy August 2nd), Mid Autumn Festival(celebrated 15th day of the 8th lunar month), Chongyang Festival( celebrated on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month), Winter Solstice( Dec.22nd) and the Laba Festival.(celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month)
Music: The Chinese believe that music is an expression of harmony that exists among heaven, earth and man, and nature has provided man with eight kinds of materials to build musical instruments. They are stone, metal, silk, bamboo, wood, skin, gourd and clay.
Cantonese: all the food cooked is either steamed boiled sauted or stirfried with thick gravy.
Sichaun: Is known for its oily, hot and spicy taste, this is created by the use of red pepper, garlic and ginger.
The third major chinese cuisine is the Shandong cuisine, also known as the lu cuisine. The ingredients used are very costly including; shark fin, abalone, sea cucumber and deer meat
China is home to
bamboo
metal
wood
Climate
CHINA
China's climate varies and is extremely diverse with tropical climate in the south and subarctic climate in the north.
22 Provinces
5 Regions
4 Municipalities
2 Special Administrative Regions
Typhoons,floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts are frequent with about 5 per year along the southern and eastern coasts.
Background
THE WORLD'S OLDEST CIVILIZATION
China also contains historically active volcanoes including Changbashan, Hainan, Baegdu, and Kunlun. except most have been inactive for may centuries.
Capital City: Bejjing
Population:1,349,585,838 (July 2013 est.)
Language: Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
Religion:Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
Ethnicity:Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5%