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Personality of Chinese people
• The power of sympathy • The heart of Chinese • The real Chinaman
What is real Chinaman? The real Chinaman, we see now, is a man who lives the life of a man of adult reason with the heart of child. In the short The real Chinaman is a person with a head of a grown-up man and the heart of a child. The Chinese spirit, therefore, is a spirit of perpetual youth, the spirit of national immortality
On more formal eating occasions, special guests will always be ushered to the position at the table the furthest away from the aisle or entrance—this ensures that when food is being served or dishes taken away the gust is not bothered by the waiting staff.
Traditional Festivals
• • • • Spring Festival Lantern Festival Mid-autumn Festival Dragon Boat Festival
It is the Chinese New Year, known also as “passing the year” in Chinese. This is the most important and popular of all Chinese festivals. The principal ritual activity during the festival is known as “New Year’s Visiting” wherein relatives and friends go to each other’s houses and exchange greetings. Usually on the doors of every house, there will be two strips of red paper with goodluck couplets.
At a formal dinner wine is often served. However, if you wish to take a drink of wine, you must first toast another diner. If you yourself are toasted but do not wish to drink, it is acceptable to touch the glass to your lips without drinking.
Chinese people live a life of the heart. The heart is a very delicate and sensitive balance. It is not like the head or intellect, a hard, stiff, rigid instrument. In fact, the Chinese pen or pencil, which is a soft brush, may be taken as a symbol of the Chinese mind.
It falls on the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival is also celebrated with round dumpling made of glutinous rice flour and filled with a verity of sweet fillings, known as Yuan Xiao (literally “the night of the first full moon)
It falls on the 5th day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Zongzi, glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, are served on the festival and dragon boat races are held, which are strenuous and become popular in southern provinces.
On occasions, especially more important ones, the final dish should may be a fish— even two. In fact this fish is a symbolic to end a meal—the word fish in Chinese (Yu) has the same sound as the word for “abundance” and so in Chinese symbolic the fish has the meaning of abundance or surplus.
Chopsticks should not be played with during a meal (for example banging them on the table), used for pointing or left standing up in a rice bowl. This latter resembles the positioning of joss sticks at a funeral and is considered bad luck. Chopsticks should not be used to root around in a dish to find nice morsel
Chinese culture
Table culture
Festivals
Personality of Chinese people
Table etiquette
• • • • Taking the seat Using chopsticks The final dish Making a toast
The in festival falls on August 15in the lunar calendar. It is the occasion during which the family get reunited and the traditional celebration can be epitomized in the following way: the whole family sit together in a circle outside the house where everything is bathed in the silvery moon light; in front of them, there are boxes of moon-cakes and melon seeds.
The Chinese people have strong power of sympathБайду номын сангаас, because they live wholly, or almost wholly, a life of the heart. The whole life of Cinnamon is a life of feelingnot feeling in the sense of sensation which comes from the bodily organs, nor from feeling in the sense of passion which flow, as you would say, from the nervous system, but feeling in the sense of emotion or human affection.
Formal Chinese banquets may last several hours and can have over 20 courses succession, but when the host stands and offers the final toast, the meal is over and guests are expected to leave the table. As a precursor to this, fresh fruit is often served