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Chopsticks are small, thin sticks that can be made of a number of different materials including wood, bamboo, ivory, silver, gold and plastic. Chinese choose chopsticks as their tableware rather than a knife and fork since they consider a knife and fork to represent a sort of violence, and resemble weapons.
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Shengxiao (Animal Signs) is a folk method used for naming the years in Chinese zodiacal calendar.
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Most of the cell phones bought in foreign countries like US, Germany, Japan and South Korea, can not be normally used in China because of different network service systems.
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Yangtze River is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Over 2,700 miles long, the mighty Yangtze is the longest in the world.
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Chinese simply choose chopsticks as their tableware rather than knife and fork since Chinese people, under cultivation of Confucianism, consider knife and fork bearing sort of violence, like cold weapons.
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The God of Kitchen (Zaoshen), commonly called "Gentleman Kitchen (Zaojun)", "Grandfather Kitchen (Zaoye)" or "King of Kitchen (Zaowangye)", is a God in charge of eating in China's ancient mythic legend.
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As the Pure Brightness (Qingming) Festival draws near, qingtuan ("green cake") is re-appearing on shop shelves in Shanghai and other regions in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
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Yuelu Academy, which is called “Millenary Academy”, is situated at the foot of the scenic Yuelu Mountain as the greatest of the four academies from China’s Sung Dynasty (960—1127 AD ).
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The Hanging Temple is located on the crag of Jinlongkou west cliff at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, five kilometers to the south from Hunyuan County, Shanxi Province.
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Medicated wine is a transparent medicated liquid obtained by using wine as a solvent to soak out the effective components of herbs.