Essay 5 About China

I studied about cross-cultural comparisons . Especially, I studied about China and wrote a thesis. I will introduce about modern Chinese culture. China has the biggest population in the world. There are about 1.3 billion people in China and a lot of dialects are spoken there, and they can not understand each dialect so there is a standard language.

Do you know the flag of China? It was designed in 1949. The red means 'revolution' and yellow of the stars means bright light. The big stars represents the power of Communist Party of China and four stars of the right hand means 4 classes in Chinese society which are (1?) and (2?) and (3?) and (4?).
China is a communist country, however the economy has become capitalism system gradually. Therefore China has a big problem of widening disparity.

In China, the Communist Party came into power and controls all of the Chinese government. It was started in 1921 and took over government after World War Ⅱ. Now the Chinese present is HU Jintao. He lead China in this age.

China is a big country, so there are many kinds of unique cultures. China has various cuisines. Chinese cuisine is famous in Japan. Typical Chinese cuisines are Peking Cuisine, Szechwan Cuisine, Shanghai Cuisine and Cantonese Cuisine.

Each cuisine has different features. First, Peking Cuisine uses flour more than rice. It's much influenced by Court food and it's great-looking and served with pomp. Well-known Peking dishes are Peking duck and Chinese meat dumplings. Szechwan Cuisine is spicy and delicious. Szechwan is inland so Szechwan Cuisine is based on vegetables, meat and grain. Well-known dishes are fiery hot tofu and twice cooked pork. Shanghai Cuisine principally involves sea food so it puts an emphasis on freshness. Sweet and rich taste is an accent. Cantonese Cuisine has strong seasoning for many kinds of food. Cantonese Cuisine think a great deal of soup. And it developed the Chinese dumpling. They eat it for breakfast or snack. Well-known dishes are Chinese-style barbecued pork or sweet and sour pork.

I think is very interesting country. I want to know about the country more about and I also study the language to talk with Chinese people in the future.(361/18,502)