Chinese food and tea

Chinese Food and Chinese Tea

  With a profound history of over 4000 years, Chinese tea is regarded as an exquisite art form that requires sampling.  Tea has become the national drink and one of the three soft drinks in the world , the first one is coffee, the second one is cocoa and the last one is tea. Also Chinese tea usually related to some food, such as the most popular Chinese breastfast in Australia is call Yum Cha, it is the one related to the tea, when you sit down, and the waiter will come and ask you which tea do you want to drink(In China, they are many type of tea, green tea , red tea, black tea and white tea) the reason why is they think the taste of the tea is similar with the food and if you drink the tea during the meal time , it is perfect .The sets mainly include tea cup, pot and saucer. Their materials differ in porcelain, pottery, lacquer ware, glass, bamboo and wooden fish stone. What's more, tea ceremony is considered to be a good way to cultivate the minds. Through infusing, appreciating and tasting tea, people can nourish their inborn nature and promote friendship among each other




                                                                                        (Kingsley) Junhua Fu
                                                                                         Student ID: 12988424

Social and cultural life of Bangladesh

Family and kinship is the core of social life in Bangladesh. A family group residing in a bari (home) functions as the basic unit of economic endeavor, landholding, and social identity. More than 50% of the people still living in the villages the social trends tend to be where a man run the family and leads the social norms however in the urban living the Women have gain much acknowledgement in recent years.  Social gatherings on various occasions like Eid, Wedding, Pitha (traditional winter dish) festival, Pohela Boishak (new year) are greatly anticipated and celebrated. The Friday morning JUMMA prayer followed by a hefty meal is a tradition in the city. The social groups varies in different parts of the country. The Sundarbans, the north, the central city and hill side, all have intensely rich heritage and their social lives has evolved around them.

Name: Farhan Anwar
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Culture and History of Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a rich, diverse culture. Its intensely deep-rooted heritage is thoroughly reflected in its architecture, dance, literature, music, painting and clothing. Bengali literature settled considerably during the medieval period with the growth of popular poets such as Chandi Das, Daulat Kazi an Alaol. The music in Bangladesh can be allocated into three main groups: classical, modern and folk. Both vocal and instrumental classical music is relished in Bangladesh. Ustad Ayet Ali Khan and Ustad Alauddin are two legendary classical instrumental players that are internationally known. The country takes pride in their nation language Bengali and has fought with bloodshed for the freedom and independence therefore each year both national language day ,victory and independence day along with Eid and Pohela Boishak (Bengali New Year) are celebrated all over the country.

Name: Farhan Anwar
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Food and Culture in Bangladesh

Bangladeshis eat Bhat (boiled rice) as their essential food and major intake. Unlike other foods, bhat is eaten after mixing it with curry. Commonly there is Bhaji (fry) and Bharta (mash), mainly made of countless varieties of vegetables and fishes. Then they take a Jhol (gravy) of different vegetables, cooked independently or mixed or in addition with fish. They also take dal which is a soup made of pulses and alongside add various kinds of pickles to enrich taste.  Among some other widely popular sweetmeats are Sandesh, a milk based dessert, Zarda which is sweetened rice, Rasgolla and Kalojam-two popular milk-based, Rosh Malai round sweets floating in thick milk, and the very renowned Pitha.

Name:Farhan Anwar
ID: ANFAC1301 

Culture And Food Of Provinces Of Pakistan:

Pakistan has four provinces. Punjab, Sindh , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan. People in Punjab speak Punjabi quite similar to Urdu. People of Punjab are mostly associated with harvesting. The Khewra salt mine is a tourist attraction. Common festivals of  Punjab are Besant and Jashn-e-bahar. Rice Biryani is the common dish of Punjab. Shalwar Kameez is the common dress .Baluchistan is located in the south west of Punjab. This region is enriched with natural resources. Like all the other provinces of Pakistan the common dress is  shalwar kameez with addition of a shawl or chaddar which people used to cover face and body in hot and cold. Common food of Baloch is Sajji which is a chicken dish. Cattle show is the unique festivel of that area. Sindh is located in the south east of Pakistan. Common food is Sindhi Biryani. Sindhi poetry is very famous in Pakistan. Nature has gifted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with rich cultural and tourism friendly environment. It has the potential of becoming a big tourist attraction in the world, due to its scenic beauty, geographical location, climate and natural resources. Kalash festival is one of the known festival of that region which held in spring. 

Muhammad Ahmad
AHMUD1501

 

Chinese Food Culture Related to the festival

Chinese Food Culture Related to the festival

  Chinese culture includes many festival, and it related to the food as well.Different festival have their own food to eat or stand for some food and over the thousand years the Chinese people developed a large number of festival to please the Gods and to celebrate, so most of them are always pay attention at most of the festival, such as the moon-cake, they eat moon-cake in the festival of the mid-moon festival, it mean all the family member should stay together and stay safe for this year and the future.Also Chinese dumpling is a major food for the Chinese peoples and now enjoys worldwide popularity. Dumplings are usually eaten at the midnight. This kind of tradition has meaning of changing of years and changing the bad luck that you met to good luck for the future. Nowadays, dumpling has become a major food on the New Year's even and the first meal on the first day of New Year.










                                          By (Kingsley)Junhua Fu
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Chinese Food Culture

  Chinese Food Culture

Chinese cuisine includes styles originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as the other parts of the Chinese culture countries. The history of the Chinese food created a thousand years ago. Also different city have their own food style as well, such as in the south part of China they not usually ate the spicy food because by the weather and they are beside the sea, that caused their food simple. In the north part of China,  most of the people like to ate spicy because they have the cold weather so their cooking is more focusing on spicy. Rice is the main position of the staple food for people from rice farming areas in southern China. Chinese noodles come dry and fresh in a variety of sizes, and the northern Chinese people like to eat noodle as the staple food.

                              Junhua Fu 

                               (Kingsley)

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Introduction to Chinese Traditional Festival - Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival which also called Mooncake Festival is one of the most important traditional festival in China. As its name shows, it is in the middle of Autumn, and people eat mooncake and admire the full moon together on that day. There is also a story about the festival.
In the ancient past, there was a hero named  Hou Yi who was very excellent at archery. He had a wife called Chang e. One year, there ware ten suns rasing in the sky together, which was a great disaster to people. Thus Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light. An immortal admired Yi so that gave him an elixir to be an immortal. Yi did not want to leave Chang e, so he let Chang e keep the elixir. However, one of his apprentices named Peng Meng, knew this secret. On the fifteenth of August in the lunar calendar, Peng Meng broke into Yi's house and forced Chang e to give the elixir to him while Yi went hunting. Chang'e refused to do so. Instead, she swallowed it then flew into the sky. Since she loved her husband very much and hoped to live nearby, she chose the moon as her residence. When Yi came back and knew what had happened, he felt so sad that he displayed the fruits and cakes that Chang e liked in the yard as the sacrifices to his wife. People soon knew about these things, ever since they also participated in these sacrifices with Yi, which are eating mooncake and admire the full moon. That's the story of Mooncake Festival.
As a result, it is also a day for family reunion. 

By Tammy (CAMID1501)

Introduction to Chinese Traditional Festival - Spring Festival

As a country with one of the longest histories in the world, China has lots of traditional festivals, such as Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc. This article is going to talk about Spring Festival in China shortly.
Spring Festival which known as Chinese New Year is the most important festival in China. People clean their house before the Spring Festival which called ‘Sao Chen’ in Chinese. It means to sweep out all poor luck and bad luck. Nowadays, people watch Spring Festival gala evening on TV every year. Setting off firecrackers is on of the most important event during Spring Festival. There is a story that explains the reason of it.
Long time ago, there was a monster called Nian. It was very huge and fierce. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, it would come out from the mountains to the village and eat humans. One year, people heard that Nian was scared of red and firecrackers. Thus, people started to set off firecrackers, wear red clothes, and paste red antithetical couplet, also stay up all night with lights on. Since then, Nian never came again.
As a result, setting off firecrackers, wearing red clothes, pasting red antithetical couplet and staying up have become a custom coming down. Red is regarded as the representative colour of China as well.
On Chinese new year's eve, family numbers will come together and have dinner together. After dinner people will also eat dumplings. On the first day of Spring Festival, people will wear new clothes. For the next fews day, people will visit their families, friends and colleagues.

By Tammy ID: CAMID1501

Religious Customs And Traditions In Pakistan

Religious Customs And Traditions In Pakistan

From religious view people in Pakistan celebrate festivals according to Muslim calendar (Lunar Calender). Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha, Milad-un-Nabi and  Ramadan. Eid-ul-fitr and Eid-ul-Adha are quite similar. Ramadan is the month of blessings for Muslims. People in Pakistan fast for one month from sun rise  to sun fall. These fast taught people what should be the conditions of those who only eats once in a day. They  also develop patience in Muslims. After Ramadan they celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. A day  before Eid-ul-fitr people donate a specific amount of money to poor people so they can also participate in the happiness of Eid. On Eid day People offer prayer in the morning and then visit their friends and relatives. On Eid-ul-Adha people slaughter animals including goat, cows, buffalos, camels and sheep. People bought these animals a week ago before Eid to develop affections with them. Eid-ul-Adha teaches Muslims about scarification .The meat is divided into three parts one for themselves and the second and third for friends and relatives.  

Muhammad Ahmad

(AHMUD1501)

Culture and food in Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti food or dishes have been changed during the evolution of the country. For example, in 17^th century, because of the trading between India and Kuwait the dishes was affected by the Indian food style like Indian special spices and herbs. The most famous dish in Kuwait is (Machboos chicken or meat). It consists of rise and cook the chicken or meat with spices, onion and other vegetables, and then we put the rise above the chicken and vegetables, and then serve it with hot sauce. Furthermore, seafood in Kuwait is very common because of the location near from sea. Therefore, the Kuwaiti citizens has created many traditional sea dishes. As well, there is a special way to eat seafood that we cannot drink milk with it, then in future the scientists revealed that drinking milk while eating fish could cause some problems to your stomach.

Name: Sultan M FM KH ALAJMI 

Introduction to China and its history

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), which located in East Asia is a very large country with a total area of 9,596,961 km² and 1.35 billion population. Beijing is the capital of China. The official language in China is Mandarin. It is one of the four great ancient civilisations with very long history. 

China used to be a very powerful and advanced country long time ago. It stopped moving on since the governor closed its doors in Qing dynasty. Wars and unequal treaties happened all the time, until 1 January 1912, the Republic of China was established by Sun Yat-sen. The presidency was given to Yuan Shikai who is not a good person, then In the late 1920s, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang, started to control China.

The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), a theatre of World War II , forced an uneasy alliance between the Kuomintang and the Communists. After the battle with Japan, Kuomintang lost out to Communists and retreated offshore, reducing the ROC's territory to only Taiwan , Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949, Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China which is known as new China nowadays.

Name: Tammy Cai (CAMID1501)

Introduction To Pakistan History And Culture.

Introduction To Pakistan History And Culture:

Culture is the reflection of the customs, religious, life style adopt by a group of people living in one community. Pakistan was established on 14 August 1947. It is located in South Asia having a culture associated with India, China and Afghanistan. Northern areas of Pakistan are well known for their beauty and highly attract tourists.People of Pakistan are specialized in handcrafting and sport goods. Its economy mostly depends upon its one the most cultivated land in world. Pakistan is well known for the export of rice, sugar, oil, fruits, leather and cotton. As it was established on the ideology of Islam therefore all the customs it has are according to it beside some area adopted by peoples. It consists of four provinces. All province has its own language. Urdu is the national language. Due to different climate and environment in all provinces   of Pakistan their clothing, language , customs , traditions are also different from each other.        

Name: Muhammad Ahmad(AHMUD1501).

               

Culture and Socialization in Kuwait.

This post is going to talk about one of the positive aspects in Kuwait's society, which is Diwaniyah, which is especially important for men in Kuwait, and it is the council chamber or it can be adjacent to the house for meeting their family members and guests to share news, congratulations and condolences with them. The Diwaniyah is the first platform for any trade unionist candidate to reap the votes and talking in the political, economy and other matters. So Kuwait's society is keen to focus on Diwaniyah culture where it is considered the most basic forms of democracy in the country. Moreover, there is the same thing for Kuwaiti women group in families where they gathering once every week at a grandmother's house. Therefore, these traditional activities strengthen the families ties and between the Kuwaiti's families as well. Here is a video that shows some of these social aspects in the Kuwaiti society.

Name: Sultan M F M KH ALajmi

The introduction of Kuwaiti culture and history.

Kuwaiti's culture started with the Kuwait's history, and Kuwait's history started more than 400 years ago, when AL Sabah family settled at this area, which is Kuwait. In the 16^th century, Kuwait was established after the increase in population. Therefore, they needed to enforce a law and a royal family to govern the country with the help of ministers. Moreover, most of citizens at that time were professional in hunting, handcrafts work, and diving for finding pearls, and this was their main source of income. As well, marine trade between India and Kuwait was very strong, which caused some exchanges in cultures. In addition, Kuwait was very famous in building big ships that can across oceans easily. Therefore, the citizens started to create their own civilization, rituals, accent and their special ways of cooking their food.

Name: Sultan Mansour ALAJMI
ID : ALSU2D1501