The Aspects of Culture China

Chinese Art Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made of are paper and silk. The finished work can be mounted on scrolls, such as hanging scrolls or handscrolls. Traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.

Chinese Art The two main techniques in Chinese painting are: Gong-bi ( 工筆 ), meaning "meticulous", uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely. It is often highly coloured and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects. It is mostly practised by artists working for the court or in independent workshops. Ink and wash painting, in Chinese Shui-mo or ( 水墨 [ ) also loosely termed watercolour or brush painting, and also known as "literati painting", as it was one of the "Four Arts" of the Chinese Scholar-official class. In theory this was an amateur art practised by gentlemen, a distinction that begins to be made in writings on art from the Song dynasty.

Chinese Music Xun- with a history of six to seven thousands years, is an earthen musical instrument, which can be categorized as a kind of ocarina

Chinese Music Suona-a very expressive reed instrument with a conical metal bell, is very popular in China's vast countryside in funeral, wedding, and other celebrative occasions.

Chinese Music Pipa-a four-string lute in pear shape

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Chinese Language People in China began writing about 1500 BC, more than a thousand years later than people in West Asia or Egypt, but earlier than anyone in Europe, Africa, or Central America. The earliest writing that we know of from China was on animal bones, which are called "oracle bones" because priests used them to tell the future. The writing on these oracle bones is the same writing that people use in modern China, just in an earlier version. The signs they used came from pictures, like earlier Egyptian hieroglyphs or Sumerian cuneiform.

Chinese Food Millet, a common crop in Northern China, has been grown since the fifth millenium BC. Rice, a common crop in Southern China, has been grown since the fourth millenium BC. Protein (meat) was uncommon, except for fish. Excess money was spent on vegetables to mix with the millet or rice. Food was generally based on class. The rich cooked in elaborate ways such as stir-friing or steaming. The rich also ate more meat and eggs and fish.

Daily Life Women were seen as less important than men. Their job was to take care of children and to cook meals. There was a wide demographic gap between the farmers and kings and nobles. The farmers were far more in population as compared to nobles. They were economically exploited and were made to work very hard. The nobles lived in luxurious palaces while the farmers in China survived in small huts. Naturally the nobles were highly regarded and lived with great riches.

Government They didn't let their people speak out to other countries and most were called off to war against the Hun. They had Dynasties (Royal families called to Royalty by the Mandate of Heaven). The emperors had absolute power over the civilians. The Mandate of Heaven is a well-accepted and popular idea among the people of China, as it argues for the removal of incompetent rulers, and provided an incentive for rulers to rule well and justly. How is this different than Egypt?