what are the food beliefs and taboos in chinese culture?
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the ways they eat are very healthy, do you find any chinese out of shape in the states?
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You have to understand that Buddhism blends wherever it goes. Although the core teachings remain intact, but the outer bark--the "form" that the religion/philosophy expresses--adapts to the receiving culture. Therefore, iconic representations of ideas or teachings differ from area to area. Tibetan Buddhism has a unique flavor, and so do Japanese Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, Thai Buddhism, Sri Lankan Buddhism, and so on. \n\nYou can think of Buddhist teachings as a vehicle, a car. You'd have all sorts of models, parts, designs, etc., but a car is still a car despite all its variable forms to choose from. \n\nTo get back to your question, the Fat Buddha ("Laughing Buddha") has been an image exclusive to Chinese Buddhism. It has come to represent good luck and wealth, which reconciles amicably with the Chinese merchantship. As for the actual, historical Fat Buddha.. we don't know if he did exist. He's as far back as a legend. I could be wrong though, about the legend part; I'm not an expert in Chinese Buddhism. You have to go dig history. \n\nThe Buddha--Siddhartha Gautama--has taught, and lived, a life of moderation so it is insensible for people from any culture to portray him as having a fat, gluttonous belly.
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I know mine (Goat/ Sheep/ Ram) and where I come from, most people believe in it even though it may not be one's actual tradition/ culture.\n\nLong story short, take a look at this page and judge for yourself if it's described characteristics are spot-on with your's :\n\nhttp://www.rainfall.com/horoscop/chinese.htm\n\n;-)\n\nPlenty of other websites available, of course, but you need to have a little bit of the chinese zodiac background so that you'd know if the pages are authentic or not.\n\np/s: 2006 is the year of the Dog and it happens to bring you loads of luck (as your zodiac ranks #2 among the 12 animals! Yaay!)
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Asian families are typically very traditional (i.e. no sex before marriage, must marry within culture, etc). My best friend is Chinese and the only boyfriend of hers that her parents even knew about was Chinese. Don't take it personally-- it's not you, it's her parents' culture.
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Chinese Food Pyramid\nThe traditional Asian Pyramid is a thali that is round in shape and has similar portions to the map created by the USDA shown below.\n\nhttp://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/China/ChineseFoodPyramid.htm\n\nHave a nice day...\n☺☺☺
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Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism constitute the essence of the traditional Chinese culture. The relationship among the three has been marked by both contention and complementation in history, with Confucianism playing a more dominant role.
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In many asian cultures, eating with your mouth open makes more noise and, thus, shows the host or hostess that you REALLY are enjoying the food you are eating. \n\nNoisy eating simply shows, in some asian cultures, that you are absolutely enthralled with the food and is considered very, very polite and appreciative. It is the equivalent of telling the cook that you love the food they cooked.
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Well, the Ox is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac which pass in a 12 year cycle. People who are born in an 'ox' year are said to have characteristics associated with the animal. These include being Obstinate, Pouty, Truthful, Motivated, Friendly, Apathetic, Genuine, Quick-tempered.\n\nThere are also many chinese people who do not eat beef due to their traditional beliefs (in some cases taoism). The story behind it is that a man died and when he went to heaven he was told he would be reincarnated as a ox. He told the Gods to let him be anything but an ox saying that oxen faced a life full of toil in the fields, only to be killed the minute they grew too old to work. The Gods reassured him and sent him down to earth. It came to pass that the man slaved away tirelessly in the fields in his new form for many years and grew old. Then one day, the farmer who owned him too him out of the fields and slaughter him. The anguish of his dying cries rose to heaven and so moved the Gods to pity that it was declared that nobody should eat the meat of oxen.\n\nIn traditional chinese society, there were not that many large animals such as oxen and water buffalo which accounts for why they were not killed for food - they were needed for farm labour. Chicken and Pork were the main sources of meat in China.
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ancient chinese secret
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http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/china/religion1.htm\n\nhttp://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/religion/index.htm\n\nhttp://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/LINKS270.htm
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When you think of Chinese food you think of rice, and rice was the first grain that was farmed in China. There is archaeological evidence of rice farming along the Yang-tse River as early as about 5000 BC. People cooked rice by boiling it in water, the way they do today. Or they made it into wine. Rice wine has been popular in China since prehistory. \n\nBut rice doesn't grow in northern China, which is much drier and colder. People in northern China gathered wild millet and sorghum instead. By 4500 BC, people in northern China were farming millet. They ate it boiled into a kind of porridge.\n\nAnother food people associate with China is tea. Tea grows wild in China. By about 3000 BC (or it could be much earlier), people in China had begun to drink tea. Soon everybody drank tea.\n\nWheat was not native to China, so it took much longer to reach China. People in northern China first began to eat wheat in the Shang Dynasty, about 1500 BC. Wheat was not native to China, but people brought it to China from West Asia. People in China boiled it like millet, to make something like Cream of Wheat. \n\nThese were the main foods of China - rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat. In northern China, people mostly ate millet, wheat, and sorghum. In southern China, people mostly ate rice. Poor people ate almost nothing but these foods.\n\n\nWhen people could afford it, they bought or grew vegetables to put on their rice. Soybeans, for instance, are native to China. So are cucumbers. For fruits, the Chinese had oranges and lemons, peaches and apricots. The native flavorings are ginger and anise (Americans use anise to make licorice).\n\nOn special occasions, people also put little pieces of meat on their rice. By 5500 BC, the Chinese were eating domesticated chicken, which came originally from Thailand. By 4000 or 3000 BC, they were eating pork, which was native to China. Sheep and cattle, which were not native, reached China from West Asia also around 4000 BC.\n\nSince meat was so expensive, and because Buddhists didn't eat meat, starting around the Sung Dynasty (about 1000 AD) people also put tofu, or bean curd, in their food as a source of protein. \n\nBecause China doesn't have big forests, it was always hard to find fuel to cook with. Chinese people learned to cut up their food very small, so it would cook quickly on a very small fire. \n\nDuring the Han Dynasty, millet wine became very popular and was even more popular to drink than tea. Also beginning in the Han Dynasty, about 100 AD, Chinese people began to make their wheat and rice into long noodles. \n\nMarco Polo, a visitor to China from Venice, wrote that by the time of Kublai Khan, about 1200 AD, Chinese people ate millet boiled in milk to make porridge. Even as late as 1200 AD, Chinese people did not bake bread.
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there are many countries in the world that eat .horse and donkey meat.in ww2 shortage of food showed that people ate these animals.china eats cats,dogs and snake.yuck.from mikhal in israel.
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神 is the correct Chinese character for "god".  It is roughly pronounced "shen".\n\nThere are a number of various usages, because the Chinese believe or have believed in various kinds of gods.
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Don't be racist! I'm chinese and i don't eat chinese food everyday! Don't assume that just cuz we're chinese that we only eat chinese food! Just like italian people don't just eat italian food and mexican people don't just eat mexican food etc...
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I live in China but don't think myself have the capacity to give the right answer to yr question.\n\nIt's too abstruse for even an educated Chinese to answer.\n\nMaybe you can turn to a knowledgable Taoist in China.\nherein a website: \nhttp://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/
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Chopsticks are an important part of Asian culture. Their popularity and widespread use across Asia have a long and rich history. They come in all shapes and forms, from golden chopsticks engraved with calligraphy to disposable bamboo wari-bashi. Regardless of the form they take, chopsticks have evolved into an important icon of Asian culture and an important part of history. \n\nIt is believed the first chopsticks were developed over 5000 years ago in China. Early Asian man would retrieve his food from the fire using sticks or branches broken from trees. Later, as the population grew and resources became scarce, people would cut food into smaller pieces to save fuel because the smaller portions cooked faster. This eliminated the need for knives, and chopsticks became the utensil of choice. \n\nThe onset of Confucianism is believed to have further cemented the use of chopsticks as the primary Asian eating utensil. Confucius taught, “The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table.” Confucius’ disdain for the presence of knives at the kitchen table, coupled with the popularity of his teachings no doubt contributed to the expanding use of chopsticks among the population. \n\nBy 500 A.D., chopsticks had spread from China to other countries such as Korea, Vietnam and Japan. While initially only used for religious ceremonies in Japan, chopsticks quickly gained popularity there as well, and their use became as widespread as the rest of Asia in no time. \n\nChopsticks come in many different forms. Bamboo tends to be the most popular material to make them from. There is lots of it in Asia, it is easy to split and it is especially resistant to heat. Other popular materials were wood and bone, and chopsticks made of precious metals were not uncommon among the wealthy. It was believed that silver chopsticks would turn black upon contact with poisoned food, although this has since been disproved. \n\nChinese chopsticks are called Kuai-Zi, which means “quick little fellows”. They are typically 9 to 10 inches long, rectangular in shape, with blunt ends. Japanese chopsticks originally resembled tweezers made from bamboo, with the two pieces joined together at one end. By the 10th century they became two separate pieces. They are slightly shorter than their Chinese counterparts (7 to 8 inches long), are typically rounded and taper to a point. \n\nIt has been said by using chopsticks it improves memory, increases finger dexterity and can be useful in learning and improving skills such as Chinese character printing and brush painting. Many Asian superstitions revolve around chopsticks as well. For example, if you find an uneven pair at your table seating, it is believed that you will miss the next train, boat or plane you are trying to catch. Also, dropping your chopsticks is a sign of bad luck to come.
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Something good about China? They have good food.