Period+3+China+Culture

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One important part of culture is the everyday cuisine. In most dishes in Chinese cuisine, food is prepared in bite-sized pieces, ready for direct picking up and eating. In traditional Chinese cultures, chopsticks are used at the table. Traditional Chinese cuisine is also based oposites, where hot balances cold, pickled balances fresh and spicy balances mild. For most foreigners, “Chinese food” is characterized by deep-fried, strong-flavored and greasy dishes that all taste similar. The Chinese have a totally different recognition of the food, because from town to town the tastes and flavors are extremely diverse. China covers a large territory and has many nationalities. There is a wide variety of Chinese foods, each with quite different but fantastic and ethnic flavors. Because China's local dishes have their own typical characteristics, Chinese food can be divided into eight regional cuisines, the distinction of which is now widely accepted. Certainly, there are many other local cuisines that are famous, such as Beijing Cuisine and Shanghai Cuisine. ======



In the West, The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Chinese is the most incredible museum that represents the highest level of Chinese artistic accomplishments. More than 5,000 years of Chinese Art collections have been discovered from now and days all the way back from prehistory days. It contains art forms including jades, bronzes, lacquer, paintings, sculptures, calligraphy and ceramics. The collects are works of international significance. It continues to grow all over the world taking in rich traditions and also ongoing artistic developments of China.